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Lineage Ramanandi Lal Shri Gurusthan / Ayodhya Agara - Ram Gigambar
Brahmachari Hanuman das ji maharaj Gopalkar ashram - name of the place where he used to live Address: Vrindavan parikrama Marg He is from Jhasi, Madhya Pradesh He left home when he was 13 years old and Locals are saying he passed when he was 186 years old. He took Samadhi in 2013. After leaving home he travelled by foot around India and then settled in Vrindavan, on parikrama marg, nobody can remember now when it happened. Many saints travel India like this. Baba himself could not remember his age exactly. But from the memories that he was saying, they made conclusions about his age. In Jhasi when he was young there was lady king Maharani Lakshmi Bai, he saw her also. He used to say the story how he cooked for Mahatma Gandi. Kanheya - the servant in the ashram, who is now around 30 years old and he is born in Vrindavan, says that he knew baba from small, also his dad knew baba from small, and his grandfather also knew the baba. When Neem Karoli came to Vrindavan, Hanuman das became his friend and he helped him to build his ashram. Neem Karoli baba used to always tell his devotees to go and receive blessings for Hanuman Baba also. Baba's teachings was very simple: He was saying do Go Mata seva and had a small goshala himself Do Hanuman prayers every day He used to talk to Thakurji every day and night and tell others which lila they are playing at the moment. Espessially in the last years of his life he was all the time absorbed in lila. He never asked for donations from anyone and never begged. One amazing story of his relationships with his Laddu Gopal deity
One day a thief has stolen Baba's Chel Gopalji from his temple. He wanted to sell Gopalji and get some money for his family. SO he went around on parikrama at Vrindavan, Govardhan, in Gokul, but could not sell the Deity. Disappointed he came back home, put Gopalji in the bag and pushed him into the shelf in his house. At night Gopal started talking to the wife of the thief. She was in bed when she hear a tiny voice saying: "I m suffocated here, take me out".
Then lady went to the direction of the voice, found and released laddu Gopal ji. She understood that Gopalji was from Baba. But she did not dare to return Him openly, as then everybody would know that her husband has stolen Him.
So she went and dug a hole and put him inside earth near the ashram of Baba.
Then Gopalji spoke to baba to come and dig him out. Baba heard him at night and he called out his people, and told them that his Gopal ji is in the earth near the gate of the ashram. So they thought Baba was cockoo, as he was searching for Gopal the whole previous day, so he must have gone mad. How Gopal would get into the ground near the gate by Himself? But the started to dig, and they found Him very fast.
So Baba did not say anything more, but later on people found out what happenned.
After that Baba put chain on Gopal, so He can not be stolen or run away.
His name is Chel Bihari, which means the one who makes lots of fun. Baba used to speak to HIm and He used to always answer. And He used to so mischeaf with Baba also.
Baba used refuse any donation for his comfort only for Goshala