The train that would not move
A beloved devotee tradition explains how the name Neeb Karori Baba became attached to a wandering sadhu near the village of Neeb Karori.
A living satsang community in Greater Houston
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A spiritual home for people drawn to Maharaj Ji through love, service, remembrance, Ram Naam, Hanuman, and satsang.
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Who was Maharaj Ji?
A life that resists a neat biography.
Neem Karoli Baba, lovingly known as Maharaj Ji, was an Indian saint and spiritual teacher whose life is preserved less through a single formal biography than through the memories of people who knew him. Devotee accounts commonly identify him with the birth name Lakshmi or Lakshman Narayan Sharma and place his early life in Akbarpur, Uttar Pradesh, around the turn of the twentieth century.
He became known across North India under several names, moved freely between households, temples, roads, and ashrams, and drew people through an unusually direct spirituality: love people, feed people, serve, remember God.
Read Maharaj Ji's story →Kainchi Dham · Uttarakhand
The mountain home remembered around the world.
Kainchi Dham became one of the places most closely associated with Maharaj Ji. The ashram's traditional history traces his work there to the early 1960s, when a Hanuman temple and gathering place took shape beside the river and mountain road.
Explore Kainchi DhamThe way
Simple enough to remember.
Deep enough for a lifetime.
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Love everyone
Begin with the person in front of you, not the idea you have about them.
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Serve everyone
Turn devotion outward through food, care, listening, and useful action.
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Remember God
Return again and again through Ram Naam, prayer, kirtan, and remembrance.
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Tell the truth
Let spiritual life remain connected to ordinary life and honest relationship.
A living practice
Ram Naam
From Maharaj Ji's own handwritten Ram Ram page · 1970–73
Ram Naam can be as simple as returning to one sacred name again and again. Around Maharaj Ji, remembrance was not an abstract idea; it lived in chanting, Hanuman Chalisa, kirtan, prayer, service, and ordinary moments.
Begin with Ram Naam →Maharaj Ji in Texas
A spiritual home today. A sacred space in the longer vision.
Today
Hanuman Mandir of Greater Houston serves as the physical spiritual home for Maharaj Ji satsang and gatherings in the Houston area. NKBaba.org is an HMGH spiritual initiative.
The longer vision
A dedicated Prayer Room for Neem Karoli Baba Maharaj Ji is envisioned within the future Hanuman Mandir campus. The Hanuman Mandir is the first phase; the Prayer Room is part of the longer vision for the campus.
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Texas archive
Song, story, remembrance, and seva.
Each gathering becomes part of a growing record of Maharaj Ji's community in Texas.
From our satsang
Moments of devotion, community, and grace from Texas.
The Texas archive is beginning in photographs: worship, meditation, kirtan, seva, and the people gathering around Maharaj Ji's path.
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Stories of grace
History is carried by people.
Maharaj Ji is remembered through moments of humor, compassion, food, mystery, instruction, and service. Historic accounts connect us to the satsang that knew him; gatherings in Texas add new memories of prayer, kirtan, seva, and community.
Enter the stories →The Texas story is beginning
Gatherings, photographs, reflections, kirtan, and seva are becoming part of the story of Maharaj Ji's community in Texas.
The American bridge
For many in the West, the path to Maharaj Ji began with Ram Dass.
Richard Alpert traveled to India in 1967 and met Neem Karoli Baba. Maharaj Ji gave him the name Ram Dass, meaning servant of God. His books and talks carried Maharaj Ji's stories into American spiritual life.
Ram Dass & Maharaj Ji →Support
Help sustain satsang, seva, and spiritual programs.
Support for this initiative is received through Hanuman Mandir of Greater Houston and helps sustain satsang, seva, spiritual programs, hospitality, and community care.
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