Like it has done to so many icons across the world, India was the
source of spirituality to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who later
converted to Buddhism.
Jobs had taken a "spiritual retreat to India" and "traversing through
the country had sparked Jobs' conversion to Buddhism," a CNN report
said.
Jobs had travelled to India in the late 1970s, with money he
had saved working as a technician at a video games manufacturer in the
US.
He reportedly visited the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi
Ashram with a Reed College friend Daniel Kottke in search of spiritual
enlightenment.
Born in 1955 in San Francisco, Jobs grew up amid
the rise of hippie counter-culture. Bob Dylan and the Beatles were his
two favourite musical icons and he shared their political leanings and
anti-establishment views.
"Like the Beatles, Jobs took a spiritual
retreat to India and regularly walked around his neighbourhood and the
office barefoot," the CNN report said.
12 years ago
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