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Babaji (other)
Babaji is an Indian honorific#Replacement type, Indian honorific that means "Father", usually with great respect or to a Priest. It may also refer to: ;People * Baba Ji Maharaj, name is used for Baba Jaimal Singh (born July 1878), Founder and first Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas, Radha Soami Satsang Beas. * Babaji, name is used for Gurinder_Singh, Sardar Gurinder Singh Dhillon Ji (born 1 August 1954), spiritual teacher * Babaji, affectionate name for Shivarudra Balayogi (born 1954), yogi and self realized master * Babaji, a name for Baba Virsa Singh Ji, founder of the Gobind Sadan Institute * Babaji Maharaji or Hariakhan Baba (active 1861–1924), a yogi who taught throughout northern India near the Himalayas * Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji (1838–1915), a well-known acharya from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism * Haidakhan Babaji, a teacher who appeared in northern India and taught publicly from 1970–1984 * Mahavatar Babaji, a himalayan yogi who taught Kriya Yoga s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Honorific
Indian honorifics are honorific titles or appendices to names used in the Indian subcontinent, covering formal and informal social, commercial, and religious relationships. These may take the form of prefixes, suffixes or replacements. Native honorifics Honorifics with native/indigenous Hindu-Buddhist origin. Hindu-Sikh honorifics List of titles * Abhyasi * Acharya * Aasaan * Ayya (Pali word), Ayya * Baba (honorific), Baba * Babu (title), Babu * Bhagavan * Bhagat * wikt:bhai, Bhai * Chhatrapati * Chakravarti (Sanskrit term), Chakravarti, Chakraborty * Chettiar, suffix denoting a man's wealth * Choudhury * Chempakaraman * Das (surname), Das, a common surname on the Indian subcontinent which has also been applied as a title, signifying "devotee" or "votary" (in the context of religion); also, Dasa * Devi * Deshmukh * Dvija * Gain (surname), Gain or Gayen * Gossain * Guru * Jagadguru * Jagirdar * Kothari (temple), Kothari * Kumari * Kunwar (title), Kunwar, Kumar (title), Kumar * Mah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baba Jaimal Singh
Jaimal Singh (1839–1903) was an Indian spiritual leader. He became an initiate of Shiv Dayal Singh (Radha Soami). After his initiation, Jaimal Singh served in the British Indian Army as a sepoy (private) from the age of seventeen and attained the rank of havildar (sergeant). After retirement, he settled in a desolate and isolated spot outside the town of Beas (in undivided Punjab, now East Punjab) and began to spread the teaching of his guru Shiv Dayal Singh. The place grew into a colony which came to be called the "Dera Baba Jaimal Singh" ("the camp of Baba Jaimal Singh"), and which is now the world centre of the Radha Soami Satsang Beas organisation. Singh was the first spiritual master and head of Radha Soami Satsang Beas until his death in 1903. Before his death he appointed Sawan Singh as his spiritual successor. Youth and education Singh was born in July 1839 in the village of Ghuman, near Batala in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, Sikh Empire. His parents were Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radha Soami Satsang Beas
Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) is a spiritual organization in Radha Soami movement. It is headed by Gurinder Singh. The main centre of RSSB is located on the banks of the Beas River in the northern Indian state of Punjab. Establishment of the Dera at Beas RSSB was founded in India in 1891 by Jaimal Singh. Shiv Dayal Singh gave initiation to Baba Jaimal Singh in 1856, who then started meditating for many days on the bank of river Beas. He, then, started giving initiation to the people there in 1889 after he got retired from his job. Lineage The lineage of the spiritual heads at RSSB is as follows:- * Jaimal Singh - 1889-1903 * Sawan Singh - 1903-1948 * Jagat Singh - 1948-1951 * Charan Singh Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) served as the 5th Prime Minister of India between 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980. Historians and people alike frequently refer to him as the 'champion of India's peasants.' Charan Si ... - 1951-1990 * Gurinder Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurinder Singh
Gurinder Singh Dhillon, also known as Baba Ji to his followers, is the spiritual head of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB). He succeeded Maharaj Charan Singh, his uncle, in 1990. The headquarters of this spiritual community, called Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, are located beside the river Beas near the town of Beas, Punjab, in northern India, and have been a centre for Satsang since 1891. RSSB has centres located worldwide. Biography Gurinder Singh was born 1 August 1954, into a family of the Dhillon clan who were followers of the Radha Soami Satsang Beas. His parents were Gurmukh Singh Dhillon and Mahinder Kaur. He was educated at the Lawrence School, Sanawar, in the Shimla Hills of Himachal Pradesh, and obtained his bachelor's degree in Commerce from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He was in Spain working before coming back to India to accept his nomination as the next spiritual head of RSSB in 1990. He has two sons, namely Gurpreet Singh Dhillon and Gurkirat Singh Dhillon. Gurp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shivarudra Balayogi
Sri Shivarudra Balayogi Maharaj (born 20 September 1954), born Srinivas (Seenu) Dikshitar in Kolar in the South Indian state of Karnataka, is a self realised Yogi and a direct disciple of Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj. After meeting his Guru at the age of sixteen, Seenu performed 20 years of vigorous service and meditation under Shri Shivabalayogi's guidance at his Dehradun ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas. Soon after the death of his Guru in 1994, Srinivas entered a stage known as '' tapas''—intense and unbroken ''dhyana'' (meditation) in which the mind is kept in perfect thoughtlessness.Ganguly, A., 2007, ''Shri Shivarudra Balayogi Maharaj: A Life of Service and Devotion'', p. 395. By performing ''tapas'' for around 20 hours a day continuously for five years, he achieved Enlightenment/ Self Realization. Based in the Dehradun ashram, he now travels to many parts of the world teaching meditation and continuing his Guru's mission. He has established numerous meditation gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji
Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji (; 1838–1915) is a well-known acharya from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, and is regarded as a ''Mahatma'' or saint by followers of his lineage. During his lifetime Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji became famous for his teachings on the process of Bhakti Yoga and for his unorthodox ''avadhuta'' like behaviour as a sadhu, or babaji in Vrindavan. He was born on 17 November 1838 in a simple mercantile family in the village of Vagyana, near to Tepakhola in the district of Faridpur, part of modern-day Bangladesh. After the death of his wife when he was twenty nine years old, he accepted the life of a Babaji in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition under the tutelage of Jagannatha Dasa Babaji, after meeting the latter's disciple, Bhagavat Dasa Babaji. He became a mendicant, staying in the holy cities of Vrindavan and Navadwip, deeply absorbed in singing and chanting the sacred names of Radha and Krishna (Bhajan). he died on his 77th birthday in 1915 In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haidakhan Babaji
Haidakhan Babaji, simply called Babaji by his students and devotees, was a religious teacher who appeared near the village of Haidakhan in northern India (Uttarakhand) and taught publicly from 1970 until his death in 1984. He has a following in the Western world, and two ashrams in India. Life According to "The Teachings of Babaji," Haidakhan Babaji "appeared" in June 1970 in a cave at the foot of the Kumaon Mount Kailash, across the River Ganges, near a remote village called Hairakhan, in the Nainital District of Uttrakhand, India. His followers maintain that Haidakhan Babaji is a Mahavatar – "a human manifestation of God, not born from woman." It is reported that starting in late September 1970 Haidakhan Babaji spent forty-five days meditating in a small temple on the top of the Kumaon Mount Kailash "without leaving his seat." In September 1971, Haidakhan Babaji, in a sworn testimony, convinced the judge of the court in Haldwani that he was the "Old Hariakhan Baba", thou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahavatar Babaji
Mahavatar Babaji (; ) is the name given to his guru by Indian yogi Yogiraj Lahiri Mahasaya (1828-1895), and several of his disciples, who reportedly appeared to them between 1861 and 1935, as described in various publications and biographies.Yogananda, Paramahansa, ''Autobiography of a Yogi'', 2005. .Yukteswar Giri, ''The Holy Science''. Yogoda Satsanga Society, 1949Mukhopadyay, Jnananedranath, ''Srimad Swami Pranabananda Giri'', Sri Jnananedranath Mukhopadyay Property Trust, 2001. Satyananda Giri''Swami Sri Yukteshvar Giri Maharaj'', from ''A collection of biographies of 4 Kriya Yoga gurus'' iUniverse Inc. 2006. .'Satyananda Giri, Swami, Yogiraj Shyama Charan Lahiri Mahasay'', from ''A collection of biographies of 4 Kriya Yoga gurus'' iUniverse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kriya Yoga School
The Kriya Yoga school (Sanskrit: क्रिया योग) is a modern yoga school, described by its practitioners as an ancient yoga system revived in modern times by Lahiri Mahasaya, who claimed to be initiated by a non-physical guru, Mahavatar Babaji, at circa 1861. Kriya Yoga was brought to international awareness by Paramahansa Yogananda's book ''Autobiography of a Yogi'' and through Yogananda's introductions of the practice to the west from 1920. The Kriya yoga system consists of a number of levels of pranayama, mantra, and mudra, intended to rapidly accelerate spiritual development and engender a profound state of tranquility and God-communion. Etymology In ''Kriya Yoga pranayama'', ''kriya'' refers to revolving the life energy "upward and downward, around the six spinal centers."Paramahansa Yogananda, ''Autobiography of a Yogi''The Science of Kriya Yoga According to Yogannda, "Kriya is an ancient science. Lahiri Mahasaya received it from his great guru, Babaji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lahiri Mahasaya
Charan Lahiri (30 September 1828 – 26 September 1895), best known as Lahiri Mahasaya, was an Indian yogi guru who founded the Kriya Yoga school. In 1861, his non-physical master Mahavatar Babaji appeared to him, ordering him to revive the yogic science of Kriya Yoga to the public after centuries of its guarding by masters. He was unusual among Indian holy people in that he was a householder, marrying, raising a family, and working as a government accountant, an "Ideal yogi-householder."Yogananda, Paramahansa (1997). ''Autobiography of a Yogi'', 1997 Anniversary Edition. Self-Realization Fellowship (Founded by Yogananda) http://www.yogananda-srf.org/. . He became known in the West through Paramahansa Yogananda, a disciple of Sri Yukteswar Giri, and through Yogananda's 1946 book ''Autobiography of a Yogi'', considering him a ''Yogavatar'', or "Incarnation of Yoga," since Lahiri himself was chosen by the yogic masters to disseminate the principles of yoga to the world. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babaji (song)
"Babaji" is a song by English rock band Supertramp, written by Roger Hodgson and also credited to other band member Rick Davies. First released on their 1977 album '' Even in the Quietest Moments...'', it was subsequently released in Europe and in Australia as the follow up single to "Give a Little Bit". Lyrics and music Hodgson wrote "Babaji" in honour of Mahavatar Babaji, whom he regarded as a Christ- or Krishna-like figure, or even a manifestation of the spirit or force of God. According to Supertramp drummer Bob Siebenberg, "Babaji is like Roger's light of life" and "Roger's guiding light sort of guy." The lyrics reflect this in lines such as "All my life I felt that you were listening/Watching for ways to help me stay in tune" and "Babaji, oh won't you come to me/Won't you help me face the music." Music critic Dale Winnitowy described the song's religious content as " George Harrison-like." The lyrics emphasise the need for effort in order to attain enlightenment from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babaji, Helmand
Babaji ( ps, باباجی), is a rural suburb of Lashkargah, the capital of the southern province of Helmand in Afghanistan. It is in the Lashkargah District.Map of Lashkargah district (PDF) Web.archive.org Babaji is dominated by the tribe. History The word ''babaji'' is an that means "father", usually with great respect or to a priest. During the |
