Neem Karoli Baba.

Neem Karoli Baba is “World Famous” because Mark Zuckelberg, founder of Facebook,told PM Narendra Modi about his visit to Kainchi Dham in Uttarakhand.

“Early on in our history……..we had hit a tough patch……..I went to meet one of my mentors Steve Jobs who told me in order to reconnect with the mission of the company, I should visit this temple he had gone to,” Zuckerberg said.

He spoke about how, during the month he spent in India, he saw how people connected and how it reinforced his vision for the social media company.

Zuckerberg had gone there in 2008 on the advice of Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs, who had himself made the journey in 1974. Jobs could not meet Baba as he had left his body in Sept 11th , 1973.

I appreciate both Mark & Steve because they have been bringing in revolutionary products which have been changing our life and help realize our oneness despite the divergence.

Steve Jobs had made the Macintosh computer in 1984 featuring an integral graphical interface & mouse. Later on he was inspired by the book “Be Here Now” by Ram Dass and visited  India to meet Neem Karoli Baba. Steve Jobs went on to produce ipad, ipod and iphone – which brought about a much needed integration of computers and mobile phones – something that the whole world was desperately waiting for.

Mark’s Facebook could have more engagement and users sheerly due to the iphone , ipad & android phones.

Interestingly, Ram Dass the author of “Be Here Now” was known as Dr Richard Alpert who was a Professor in Harvard University where he worked in Social Relations & Psychology Department and experimented on hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD. Neem Karoli Baba once took all his supply of LSD and gulped it to show that LSD is useless in spiritual pursuit.

Now Neem Karoli Baba was a Sadguru or Mystic who was born in 1900 and passed away in September 1972. He made around 108 temples of Hanumanji, influenced American & Indian Society.

He was born in Agra District in a Bramhin family and believed in serving people through continuous feeding, the atmosphere around Him reverberated with chanting of devotional songs followed by Bhandara or feeding the poor and hungry.

His simple teaching was to love all of humanity without any distinction of color, caste, creed, sex – His main role was to break down all barriers and bring about social integration through music, food and remembering God.

Let us follow a simple life of serving our fellow human beings all over the world without any barriers of nationality, caste, sex. To love God is to love humanity- you can’t be a feminist, nationalist and have an us versus them attitude – because when you sleep you are no longer a man or woman, Indian or American.