Biography Of Neem Karoli Baba – Free PDF Download

EARLY LIFE

• He was born around 1900, in village Akbarpur, Firozabad district, Uttar Pradesh, India, in a Brahmin family of Durga Prasad Sharma.
• He was named Lakshman Das Sharma. After being married by his parents aged 11 he left home to become a wandering sadhu.
• He later returned home, at his father’s request, to live a settled married life. He fathered two sons and a daughter.

 MAHARAJ JI

• Ram Dass tells an unverified story that Baba Lakshman Das boarded a train without a ticket and the conductor decided to halt the train and force Neem Karoli Baba off of the train at the village of Neeb Karori, Farrukhabad district (U.P).
• After boarding Baba off the train, the conductor found that the train would not start again. After several attempts at starting the train someone suggested to the conductor that they allow the sadhu back on to the train.
• Neem Karoli agreed to board the train on two conditions that the railway company promise to build a station at the village of Neeb Karori and the railway company must henceforth treat sadhus better.

MAHARAJ JI

• Baba lived in the village of Neeb Karori for a while and was given his name by locals. Thereafter he wandered extensively throughout Northern India.
• During this time he was known under many names including Lakshman Das, Handi Wallah Baba, and Tikonia Walla Baba.
• 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.

MAHARAJ JI

• The Kainchi Dham ashram where he stayed in the last decade of his life, was built in 1964 with a Hanuman temple.
• Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj ji) died at approximately 1:15 a.m. in the early morning hours of 11 September 1973 in a hospital at Vrindavan, India after slipping into a diabetic coma

MIRACLES

• Among the most well known of Neem Karoli Baba’s disciples were spiritual teacher Ram Dass (the author of Be Here Now), teacher/performer Bhagavan Das, Lama Surya Das and the musicians Jai Uttal.
• Other notable devotees include humanitarian Larry Brilliant and his wife Girija, Dada Mukerjee (former professor at Allahabad University), scholar and writer Yvette Rosser, John Bush filmmaker, and Daniel Goleman author of The Varieties of the Meditative Experience and Emotional Intelligence.

MIRACLES

• Baba Hari Dass (Haridas) was not a disciple, but he supervised several buildings and maintained the ashrams in the Nainital area (1954-1968) before heading to the USA to become a spiritual teacher in California at the beginning of 1971.
• Steve Jobs, along with his friend Dan Kottke, traveled to India in April 1974 to study Hinduism and Indian spirituality; they planned also to meet Neem Karoli Baba,but arrived to find the guru had died the previous September.

 MIRACLES

• Hollywood actress Julia Roberts was also influenced by Neem Karoli Baba. A picture of him drew Roberts to Hinduism.
• Mark Zuckerberg, founder of facebook, influenced by Steve Jobs, visited Neem Karoli Baba’s (Maharajji) ashram in Kainchi. Larry Brilliant took Google’s Larry Page and Jeffrey Skoll, co-founder of eBay, on the pilgrimage.

MIRACLES

• After returning to the United States, Ram Dass and Larry Brilliant founded the Seva Foundation, an international health organization based in Berkeley, California.
• Steve Jobs, a friend of Brilliant, also funded the organization. It is committed to applying the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba toward ending world poverty.
• In the late 2000s another Foundation evolved, the ‘Love Serve Remember Foundation’, whose purpose is to preserve and continue the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba.

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