According to Osho, the Bauls have no single founder; they are not an 'ism' but a timeless happening—an ecstatic, spontaneous way of being in love with life. Like roses or birdsong, they arise naturally from existence. Every child is born a Baul, later conditioned away. If there was any beginning, Bauls began with the first human—expressions of the essential man.
Nobody invented Bauls; they’re the natural, joyful way humans are before the world teaches them otherwise.