# Black Marble Neem Karoli Baba Darshan Murti 24in > Master-carved black marble Neem Karoli Baba in seated darshan, a 24-inch meditation-room murti with the plaid blanket in low relief. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/black-marble-neem-karoli-baba-darshan-24in **Business:** Tilak Mandirwala — made-to-order marble temples (mandirs), statues and decorative handicrafts. Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Founded 2006. **How it works:** Each piece is carved to order by the independent master sculptors TMW works with in Jaipur's Khajane Walon Ka Rasta sculptors' market. TMW designs the piece with the customer, briefs the sculptor, and follows it through to delivery and installation. **Pricing:** request-for-quote — pieces are custom, so the site carries no list prices. **Ships:** across India; export enquiries welcome. **About the image:** a design visualisation, not a photograph of stock on hand. The piece is carved to order after the design is agreed. **Availability:** made to order. ## The stone Bhainslana black marble is a dense, fine-grained near-black marble from Rajasthan. It forms deep underground from slowly cooling magma, which is why its crystal structure is so fine and so evenly packed. Quarried in dark, near-uniform blocks, it carries almost no veining in the grades used for figure work, and it is dense enough to hold fine detail. That hardness is what lets it hold a crisp edge: the fringe of the blanket, the ridges of the check pattern and the knuckles of the folded hands all stay sharp instead of softening. Here the surface is carried to a mirror polish, so the stone reads as a deep jet black, with highlights tracing the carved folds of the blanket. ## Who this murti shows Neem Karoli Baba, Maharajji to those who knew him, lived and taught in the Kumaon hills, and the ashram at Kainchi Dham near Nainital remains the centre of his following. He died in 1973, within living memory, and the record of his face is photographic rather than iconographic. The murti tradition settled on a fixed set of markers, all of them carved here: the bare bald head with no turban or head cloth, the short trimmed beard and moustache, the heavy chequered blanket drawn over both shoulders that earned him the name Blanket Baba, the dhoti beneath it, and the broad, stout, unmistakably elderly body. He sits in sukhasana on a plain rectangular plinth, both hands resting open in his lap, feet bare and one foot forward. This is the quiet darshan form rather than the raised-hand ashirwad. ## How it is carved Work starts from a single block, roughed down under heavy chisels until the seated mass and the plinth read as one piece. The blanket is the difficulty. Its check pattern is cut in shallow low relief, shallow enough that the weave registers as texture rather than as incised lines, and its fringe is undercut so the edge lifts clear of the stone behind it. The face, the hands and the drapery folds are finished entirely by hand; no machine work touches them. Polishing runs through successive abrasive grades until the stone reaches a mirror. Every piece is carved to order in Jaipur by the sculptors Tilak Mandirwala works with, so no two are identical, and a commission of this size and subject typically takes eight to twelve weeks from confirmation. ## Sizing it for your space At 24 inches tall the murti occupies a footprint of roughly 12 by 11 inches and weighs about 17 kilograms, which puts it within reach of a console table, a low altar shelf or a built-in niche without structural preparation. That scale suits a meditation room, a study or a gallery recess: large enough to hold a room from across it, small enough that the face stays near seated eye level rather than looming. Give it a clear background, since black stone reads best against a pale wall where the edge highlight outlines the silhouette. Keep the piece elevated on its own plinth or a chowki, never at floor level, and leave the front of the plinth clear so a lamp or flowers sit before him rather than crowding the figure. ## Commissioning a variant The same darshan form is carved in Makrana marble, in Vietnam marble, and hand-painted in polychrome where the blanket is picked out as tartan check. Sizes run from 12 inches for a shelf up to five feet on commission. The plinth can be cut as a plain block, a moulded step, or a low takhat in the manner of the wooden bench he sat on. Message us on WhatsApp with the height and finish you have in mind and we will come back with pricing and a lead time. ## Specifications - **Material:** Bhainslana Black Marble - **Finish:** Mirror polish - **Colour:** Black - **Height:** 24 inches - **Width:** 12 inches - **Depth:** 11 inches - **Weight:** 17 kg - **Ideal for:** Meditation room, Study, Gallery Stone, size and finish are all changeable — these are the specifications of the piece as shown. ## Media ### Images (1) - https://vptrobfqdvauunfvodxw.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/tmw-media-assets/Statue%20product%20images/black-granite-neem-karoli-baba-darshan-24in--bhainslana-black-marble-mirror-v2-20261102t2054.webp (primary, concept render) All media is public and CORS-open — fetch directly, no signing or proxy needed. ## Part of - [Statues](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/collections/custom-marble-statues) ## Related pieces - [Hand-Painted Makrana White Marble Neem Karoli Baba Darshan Murti 18in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/hand-painted-makrana-white-marble-neem-karoli-baba-lap-hands-18in) - [Hand-Painted Makrana White Marble Neem Karoli Baba Ashirwad Murti 24in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/hand-painted-makrana-white-marble-neem-karoli-baba-ashirwad-24in) - [Dholpur Pink Sandstone Neem Karoli Baba Ashirwad Murti 30in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/dholpur-pink-sandstone-neem-karoli-baba-ashirwad-30in) ## Enquire about this piece - WhatsApp, message pre-written: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=919766532408&text=Hi!%20I'd%20like%20a%20quote%20to%20have%20this%20design%20made%3A%20Black%20Marble%20Neem%20Karoli%20Baba%20Darshan%20Murti%2024in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fblack-marble-neem-karoli-baba-darshan-24in - Tell us the size, the stone and where it is going. We will send you a quote and a timeline. ## Contact Tilak Mandirwala - Email: info@tilakmandirwala.com - Phone: +91 92141 72150 - WhatsApp: https://wa.me/919766532408 - Enquiry form: https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/contact - Store: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India — https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/best-mandir-shop-jaipur Enquiries are quoted per piece: share the deity or object, an approximate height, and the stone you have in mind.