Facebook’s Chairman Mark Zuckerberg had dropped a bombshell on India during PM Modi’s visit to his campus in California.
In the first meeting of PM with Zuckerberg, he told that the founder Chairman of Apple, had advised him to visitr a certain temple in India for blessings. The revelation may have caused heart burn to many. More so in India where so-called secular and snooty folks have long acquired a proclivity to look down upon their own culture, relegion, and values while being appreciative of any bizarre customs and styles of the west.
Steve Jobs had himself spent over six months in India in 1974. He was here in quest of the higher meaning of life and spiritual solace. As understood, from early age Steve was quite haunted by a good deal of unanswered questions. Of course, his encounter with a book “Be Here Now” by Richard Alpert, a Harvard Professor had opened up a gateway to the spiritualism of the East. This book had also introduced him to a mystic Yogi ‘Neem Karoli Baba’. That later inspired Steve to set out the journey for the East. As soon as Steve and his friend Daniel Kottke arrived India they directly went to meet the Guru K ainchi Dham Ashram in Nainital. But to their disappoinment they found Baba had already passed away some months earlier.Nevertheless, the urge to dive deeper into the spiritualism did not die away. They shaved their heads and put on Indian clothes and undertook an extensive meditation and yogic practices.
The most significant impact that had made upon his life was a book ” Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramhansa Yogananda. This book had given him the practical insight into what exactly this world is about and how a layman can prepare himself to realise the supreme knowledge.
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