Neem Karoli Baba

Neem Karoli Baba
Neem Karoli Baba
Personal
Born	Lakshmi Narayan Sharma; c. 1900; Akbarpur village, North-Western Provinces, British India; (present-day Firozabad district, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died	11 September 1973 (aged 73); Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India
Religion	Hinduism
Philosophy	Bhakti yoga
Religious career
	Disciples Bhagavan Das, Dada Mukerjee, Jai Uttal, Krishna Das, Larry Brilliant, Ram Dass, Surya Das;

Neem Karoli Baba (Hindi: नीम करौली बाबा, romanized: nīm karaulī bābā) or Neeb Karori Baba (Hindi: नीब करौरी बाबा, romanized: nīb karaurī bābā) (c. 1900 – 11 September 1973), also known to his followers as 'Maharaj-ji', was a Hindu guru and a devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman. He is known outside India for being the spiritual master of a number of Americans who travelled to India in the 1960s and 70s, the most well-known being the spiritual teachers Ram Dass and Bhagavan Das, and the musicians Krishna Das and Jai Uttal.

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