  The Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model (NJL) is extended to incorporate heavy quark
spin-symmetry. In this model baryons containing one heavy quark are analyzed as
bound-states of light baryons, represented as chiral solitons, and mesons
containing one heavy quark. From related studies in Skyrme type models, the
ground-state heavy baryon is known to arise for the heavy meson in a P--wave
configuration. In the limit of an infinitely large quark mass the heavy meson
wave-function is sharply peaked at the center of the chiral soliton. Therefore
the bound state equation reduces to an eigenvalue problem for the coefficients
of the operators contained in the most general P-wave {\it ansatz} for the
heavy meson. Within the NJL model a novel feature arises from the coupling of
the heavy meson to the various light quark states. In this respect conceptual
differences to Skyrme model calculations are discovered: The strongest bound
state is given by a heavy meson configuration which is completely decoupled
from the grand spin zero channel of the light quarks.
