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Neem Karoli Baba was a lifelong adept of bhakti yoga, and encouraged service to others (seva) as the highest form of unconditional devotion to God. In the book Miracle of Love, compiled by Ram Dass, a devotee named Anjani shares the following account: There can be no biography of him. Facts are few, stories many.
Neem Karoli Baba (Hindi: नीम करौली बाबा, romanized: nīm karaulī bābā)[3] 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.[4] 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. His ashrams are in Kainchi,[5] Vrindavan, Rishikesh, Shimla, Neem Karoli village near Khimasepur in Farrukhabad, Bhumiadhar, Hanumangarhi, and Delhi in India and in Taos, New Mexico, United States.
Neem Karoli Baba died at approximately 1:15 AM in the early morning hours of 11 September 1973 in a hospital at Vrindavan, India after slipping into a diabetic coma.
Lakshman Narayan Sharma was born around 1900 in the village Akbarpur in Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh, India, to a wealthy Brahmin family. After being married by his parents at the age of 11, he left home to become a wandering sadhu. He later returned home, at his father’s request, to live a settled married life.
Cricketer Virat Kohli and his actress wife Anushka Sharma paid a visit to Baba Neem Karoli Ashram in Vrindavan, Mathura early Wednesday morning. The couple stayed there for about an hour and had ‘darshan’ of Baba’s ‘samadhi’, besides meditating in a ‘kutia’ (hut).
One of the ashrams of Baba Neem Karoli is located in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh. Inaugurated in 1967, the ashram is the Mahasamadhi Mandir of the Neem Karoli Baba and this is also the place of Maharaj-ji’s Mahasamadhi Bhandara.