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| The Hanuman Mandir and Ashram at Kainchi, which Steve Jobs visited and probably suggested to Mark Zuckerberg (video below) |
Staff correspondent, September 28, 2015, NewsCrunch
The temple, which Mark Zuckerberg visited after a suggestion from Steve jobs, could probably have been Hanuman Mandir and Ashram, at Kainchi, Nainital.
Set up by Neem Karoli Baba, whom Steve Jobs had accepted as his guru, Kainchi’s Hanuman Mandir and Ashram continue to be popular with Indian and Western devotees.
While speaking at the town hall meeting along with Indian PM Modi, Zuckerberg had said on Sunday that he had visited an Indian temple when he was going through a rough patch during the early phase of his company.
His mentor Steve Jobs had suggested that he visit a temple in
Zuckerberg unfortunately did not disclose, which temple he had visited.
The public record on Steve Jobs’
An Uttrakhand tourism brochure says Steve Jobs had visited the Mandir and even got the vision to create Apple there.
During his hippy years Steve Jobs came to
Ashram in 1974, Neem Karoli Baba had passed away.
There is also a possibility that Steve Jobs, who travelled widely in
However,
Neem Karoli Baba built several temples around the world. But Kainchi Hanuman Mandir was one of the two temples, he built personally.