Neem Karoli Baba

If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.Neem Karoli Baba

Neem Karoli Baba or Neeb Karori Baba (c. 1900 – 11 September 1973), also known to his followers as ‘Maharaj-ji’, was a Hindu guru and revered as the incarnation of Hindu deity Hanuman. He is known outside India for being the spiritual master of a number of Americans who travelled to India in the 1960s and 70s, the most well-known being the spiritual teachers Ram Dass and Bhagavan Das, and the musicians Krishna Das and Jai Uttal.

His ashrams are in Kainchi, Bhumiadhar, Hanumangarhi and Kakrighat in the Kumaon Hills, Vrindavan, Rishikesh, Shimla, Lucknow, Neem Karoli village near Khimasepur in Farrukhabad and Delhi in India and in Taos, New Mexico, United States.