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The remarkable story of Steve Jobs’ uncompromising spirit, Apple’s success and Neem Karoli Baba – Hanuman Ansh

Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.
~ Neem Karoli Baba

The remarkable story of Steve Jobs’ uncompromising spirit, supernatural capabilities, unprecedented advancement, unparalleled legacy and Apple’s success.
Steve Jobs built a brand that long outlived him and ensured that Apple could thrive after he passed away in 2011.
He was aware that his time on earth was impermanent and that he could not afford to waste a minute.

Here is an excerpt from his famous Stanford commencement speech:

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

Steve kept his 20-year marriage to Laurene Powell Jobs very private but he may have applied the same value to their relationship that Jobs once said he applies to his business in a 60 Minutes interview:
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.”
He also mentioned in the interview when the Beatles were together they did brilliant work and when they split up they did great work but it was never the same.

Before Steve Jobs’ spiritual journey brought global attention to Neem Karoli Baba, an American named Richard Alpert had already become one of the most important bridges between the Indian saint and the West.

Alpert was a Harvard psychology professor who became deeply involved in research on psychedelics. But his search for a deeper understanding of consciousness eventually took him to India in 1967, where he met Neem Karoli Baba, also known as Maharaj-ji. That meeting changed the course of his life. Revered as one of Hanuman’s greatest devotees, Neem Karoli Baba inspired millions through his simple teachings of love, service, humility, and unwavering faith in God. Neem Karoli Baba, a Brahmin boy married off at eleven who walked out of that marriage within days and spent decades as a wandering sadhu. Born around 1900 in Akbarpur, he returned to family life only because his father insisted, eventually raising two sons and a daughter while his mind stayed elsewhere. In 1964 he built a small ashram at Kainchi with nothing but a Hanuman idol the idea of service.

Neem Karoli Baba became his guru, and Richard Alpert later became known as Ram Dass. He began sharing the spiritual lessons he had learned in India with audiences in the United States. His most famous work, “Be Here Now,” published in 1971, introduced millions of Western readers to meditation, yoga, Indian spirituality and the teachings associated with his guru.
The book became particularly influential among young Americans searching for an alternative to conventional ideas about life and spirituality. One of those readers was a young Steve Jobs.

Years later, in 1974, Jobs travelled to India with his friend Daniel Kottke, partly inspired by “Be Here Now” and hoping to meet Neem Karoli Baba at Kainchi Dham. By then, however, the spiritual teacher had already passed away in 1973. Jobs still visited the ashram and continued his search for spiritual understanding during his time in India.
This makes Ram Dass an important part of the story behind Neem Karoli Baba’s influence in the West. Long before Steve Jobs became one of the most recognised names in technology, Ram Dass was helping introduce Western audiences to the Indian spiritual traditions that had transformed his own life.

His journey shows how one meeting in India eventually reached far beyond an ashram in Uttarakhand, influencing a generation of Western spiritual seekers and, indirectly, people such as Steve Jobs.

Mark Zuckerberg made the same journey years later, reportedly on Jobs’s own advice, during Facebook’s roughest stretch before its IPO.
Larry Page visited Kainchi as part of a pilgrimage led by longtime devotee Larry Brilliant, the same trip that also took Jeffrey Skoll, eBay’s first president, to the ashram.

Julia Roberts never met Neem Karoli Baba in person. She came across a photograph of him instead, that single image is what pulled her toward Hinduism, a shift she later spoke about publicly around the release of Eat Pray Love.

In 2026, a film “Hanuman Ansh” on his life released on a two crore rupee budget, opened at 10 lakh which crossed 82 crore net in India within a month.

The team had no promotion budget at all, so instead of ads, they ran eight free community meals near theaters and let word spread from there.

“Do not think you are the doer. The ego says ‘I act,’ but it is God who moves everything.”
~ Neem Karoli Baba

Anupriya Nagar produced Hanuman Ansh at just 21 years old.
Following its remarkable success, she said she wants to use the money for charity and help underprivileged children. For devotees, her journey feels like a blessing from Neem Karoli Baba.
The team had no promotion budget at all, so instead of ads, they ran eight free community meals near theaters and let word spread from there.
After a very slow start in early August 2026, strong word-of-mouth from the third week onwards drove a dramatic surge in collections. By its sixth week, the film was still delivering double-digit daily figures and had overtaken several bigger releases.
The success of Hanuman Ansh has been widely seen as a rare example of content and audience connect overcoming the absence of big-star power and large-scale marketing.

Hanuman Ansh producer Anupriya Nagar says the team did not fictionalise much of the story. According to her, scenes including the train and barber shop sequences were based on accounts associated with Neem Karoli Baba. The film presents these stories as part of Maharaj Ji’s spiritual legacy. Devotees regard these accounts as Baba Ji’s miracles.

Hanuman Ansh was backed by three women producers from different generations: Ragini Sona, Namrata G. Singh and 21-year-old Anupriya Nagar. Anupriya clarified that she joined after filming was completed, when the team needed money for post-production, and contributed one-third of the total investment. The film has now grossed ₹291.40 crore worldwide in 40 days.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can’t control your mind, how will you realize God?
~ Neem Karoli Baba

“All is God’s will, but Maya prevents you from knowing it’s all God’s will. He gave us eyes, ears, nose, mouth. But He also gave us wisdom to use them to attain God.”
~ Neem Karoli Baba

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