# Babaji

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**Babaji** is an [Indian honorific](/source/Indian_honorific#Replacement_type) 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](/source/Baba_Jaimal_Singh) (born July 1878), Founder and first Satguru of [Radha Soami](/source/Radha_Soami_Satsang_Beas) Satsang Beas.
- Babaji, name is used for [Sardar Gurinder Singh Dhillon Ji](/source/Gurinder_Singh) (born 1 August 1954), spiritual teacher
- Babaji, affectionate name for [Shivarudra Balayogi](/source/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](/source/Gaurakisora_Dasa_Babaji) (1838–1915), a well-known acharya from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism
- [Haidakhan Babaji](/source/Haidakhan_Babaji), a teacher who appeared in northern India and taught publicly from 1970–1984
- [Mahavatar Babaji](/source/Mahavatar_Babaji), a legendary immortal yogi
- [Azam Cheema](/source/Azam_Cheema) (1953–2024), also known as Baba or Babaji, Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba militant

**Other uses**

- "[Babaji](/source/Babaji_(song))", a song from the album *Even in the Quietest Moments...* by Supertramp
- [Babaji, Helmand](/source/Babaji,_Helmand), a rural suburb of Lashkargah that was the center of Operation Panther's Claw in 2009 during the War in Afghanistan
- *Little Babaji*, a reworking of the children's book *[The Story of Little Black Sambo](/source/The_Story_of_Little_Black_Sambo#Modern_versions)*

## See also

- [Babuji (disambiguation)](/source/Babuji_(disambiguation))
- [Baba (disambiguation)](/source/Baba_(disambiguation))

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