Neem Karoli Baba

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Neem Karoli Baba (Hindi: नीम करौली बाबा^[2]) or Neeb Karori Baba (Hindi: नीब करौरी बाबा) (c. 1900 - 11 September 1973) - known to his followers as Maharaj-ji - was a Hindu guru, mystic and devotee of the Hindu deityHanuman.^[3] He is known outside India for being the guru of a number of Americans who travelled to India in the 1960s and 1970s, the most well-known being the spiritual teachers Ram Dass and Bhagavan Das, and the musicians Krishna Das and Jai Uttal. His ashrams are in Kainchi,^[4] Vrindavan, Rishikesh, Shimla, Neem Karoli village near Khimasepur in Farrukhabad, Bhumiadhar, Hanuman Gadi, Lucknow, Delhi in India and in Taos, New Mexico, USA.

Neem Karoli Baba
Personal
Born	Lakshmi Narayan Sharma 1900 c.[1] Akbarpur, United Provinces, British India (now in Firozabad district, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died	11 September 1973 (aged 73) Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India
Religion	Hinduism
Nationality	Indian
Philosophy	Bhakti yoga, Sewa
Religious career
Guru	Hanuman
Disciples Bhagavan Das, Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, Ram Dass, Ram Rani, Surya Das

Neem Karoli Baba sculpture in Ram Dass library