Babaji
Appearance
"Babaji" may refer to:
- Guru Nanak, the universal enlightener and founder of sikhism, often known as "Baba Nanak" or "Babaji" (1469 – 1539)
- a Muslim, Sufi, Hindu or Sikh ascetic or holy man, including:
- Jagannatha dasa Babaji, an acharya from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition (1776–1894)
- Vamsi dasa Babaji Maharaja, a renunciate who lived in the mood of a servant of Lord Krishna's father (exact date unknown-presumably sometime from the late 1800's to early 1900's.)
- Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, an influential Vaishnava guru from the Gaudiya tradition (1838–1915)
- Hariakhan Baba, appeared in many places in northern India near the Himalayas between 1861 and 1924
- Haidakhan Babaji, a teacher who appeared in northern India and taught publicly from 1970–1984
- Mahavatar Babaji, referred to by Paramahansa Yogananda in his best-selling Autobiography of a Yogi
- Shivarudra Balayogi, yogi and self realized master, affectionately known as Babaji (born 1954)
- Adikavi dasa Babaji, a devotee of Krishna said to have realized his eternal relationship with the Lord (born 1962)
- Baba Virsa Singh Ji, founder of the Gobind Sadan community
- Baba Basant Rai of Hazaribagh, subject of the documentary Babaji, an Indian Love Story
- An honorific in the Sikh faith, given to elderly or wise men, such as:
- Baba Buddha Ji
- Baba Deep Singh Ji (1682–1757)
- Baba Fateh Singh Ji
- A song by Supertramp, from the album Even in the Quietest Moments...
- The main character of the book Little Babaji, a reworking of Little Black Sambo
- Bābājī Faşal, a village northwest of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
- Babaji (Afghanistan), a district in the Northeastern part of Ghor Province of Afghanistan