>>40742375It's not a job in my understanding. More of a way for the title to communicate more than just "respected person".
Swami - respected for mastering their mind and body
Pandit - respected for great worldly knowledge, especially political
Sadhu - respected for great wisdom and decision making
Babaji - respected like sadhu, but not necessarily a model for everyone to follow
Yogi - respected for being greatly advanced on the path back to uniting with the Supreme, or having done so
Consider it analogous to martial arts. They are all for the same thing, on the same path, but different styles are effective in different ways, and they will call their experts certain names.
The babaji would be someone with an extremely unorthodox fighting style, but still is very effective. But it's a style that often specifically only works for them. If others tried to match it, it wouldnt work.
Like Gaura Kisora dasa babaji would often do his spiritual practice in the shithouse.
People would bother him a lot because they wanted his favor or to give him something or to try and glean some good karma through charity and interaction.
All we wanted to do was meditate and perform his little rituals. So he decided the best place was somewhere no one would ever want to spend more time than necessary. An outhouse in India.
Normally, everyone knows you dont bring sacred stuff into such a dirty place, you dont try and meditate and do rituals there.
Normal people would not be able to maintain the focus and detachment. Even experts who attained their position in standard ways might endure, but would be naturally averse to the idea at all.
But Gaura Kisora was above such worldly thinking, and too steady in seeing the equanimity of god's energies, so to him the shitter was no different than a palace.
The locals soon became so embarrassed by driving him into an outhouse that they built him a tiny little hovel and promised not to bother him when he was doing his sadhana in there.
