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Neem Karoli Baba (Hindi: नीम करौली बाबा) or Neeb Karori Baba (Hindi: नीब करौरी बाबा) (1900 c. - September 11, 1973), also known to followers as Maharaj-ji, was a Hindu guru, mystic and devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman. 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,〔 Kainchi Dham〕 Vrindavan, Rishikesh, Shimla, Nib Karori village near Khimasepur in Farrukhabad, Bhumiadhar, Hanuman Gadi, Lucknow, Delhi in India and in Taos, New Mexico, USA. ==Biography == Born as Lakshmi Narayan Sharma, around 1900 CE, at Akbarpur, Uttar Pradesh, in a Brahmin family of Durga Prasad Sharma. He was married at the age of 11, later he left home and was found by his father a village named Neeb Karori (Nib Karori), near Khimasepur, Farrukhabad, which gradually lead to his popular name, Neem Karoli Baba, with baba being a common honorific title for saints.〔 Neem Karoli Baba left his home in 1958, around the time when his youngest child, a daughter was eleven, thereafter he wandered extensively throughout Northern India as a sadhu. During this time he was known under many names including Lakshman Das, Handi Wallah Baba, and Tikonia Walla Baba. When he did tapasya and sadhana at Vavania Morbi in Gujarat, he was known as Tallaiya Baba. In Vrindavan, local inhabitants addressed him by the name of Chamatkari Baba (miracle baba).〔Ram Dass (1995). ''Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba''. Hanuman Foundation. ISBN 1-887474-00-5.〕 During his life two main ashrams were built, first at Vrindavan and later at Kainchi, where he spent the summer months.〔 In time, over 100 temples were constructed in his name.〔 The Kainchi Dham ashram where he stayed in the last decade of his life, was built in 1964 with a Hanuman temple. It started two years prior with a modest platform built for two shadus, Premi Baba and Sombari Maharaj to perform yagnas. Over the years the temple, situated 17 km from Nainital on the Nainital-Almora road, has become an important pilgrimage for locals, especially on June 15, when then the Kainchi Dham fair takes place to commemorate the inauguration of the temple, when it is visited by over a lakh devotees.〔 〕 Neem Karoli Baba died at approximately 1.15 a.m. in the early morning hours of September 11, 1973 in a hospital at Vrindavan, India after slipping into a diabetic coma. He had been returning by night train to Kainchi near Nainital, from Agra where he had visited a heart specialist due to experiencing pains in his chest. He and his travelling companions had disembarked at Mathura railway station where he began convulsing and requested being taken to Vrindavan. Subsequently, his samadhi shrine was built within the complex of Vrindavan ashram, which also has some of his personal belongings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neem Karoli Baba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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