Babaji

Babaji: (Sanskrit: bābāji m.), geehrter Vater. Von Baba (Sanskrit) Vater bzw. Großvater und wird auch als würdevoller Namenszusatz gebraucht, vor allem bei indischen Asketen, Derwischen und Sufi-Heiligen. Wird auch als liebevolle Anrede für den Guru gebraucht.

• Guru Nanak, the universal enlightener and founder of sikhism, often known as "Baba Nanak" or "Babaji"
• a Muslim, Sufi, Hindu or Sikh ascetic or holy man, including:
  • Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, an influential Vaishnava guru from the Gaudiya tradition
  • Haidakhan Babaji, a teacher who appeared in northern India and taught publicly from 1970–1984
  • Hariakhan Baba, appeared in many places in northern India near the Himalayas between 1861 and 1924
  • Jagannatha dasa Babaji, an acharya from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Baba Fateh Singh Ji
• A song by Supertramp
• The main character of the book Little Babaji, a reworking of Little Black Sambo
• Bābājī Faşal is a village, Northwest of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
• Babaji (Afghanistan) is a district in the Northeastern part of Gowr Province of Afghanistan.

Siehe auch

• Babu
• Baba
• Guru
• Meister
• Heilige
• Avatar
• Yoga Meister