Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg both traveled to India looking for the same guru: Neem Karoli Baba. Neither ever met him — he was already gone.

Decades apart, a 19-year-old college dropout named Steve Jobs and a tech billionaire named Mark Zuckerberg made the same pilgrimage to a small temple in the Himalayan foothills near Nainital, India — hoping to sit with a guru named Neem Karoli Baba. Both arrived after he had already passed away.

This is the story of Maharaj-ji, the humble teacher behind Ram Dass's bestselling book "Be Here Now" — and how his teaching, "Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God," shaped the founder of Apple in 1974 and the founder of Facebook four decades later, without either man ever hearing his voice.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Cold Open
00:35 Who Was Neem Karoli Baba
02:10 Ram Dass, the Real Link
04:05 Steve Jobs in India
06:00 Zuckerberg's Pilgrimage
07:40 Close — What Actually Traveled

SOURCES
Walter Isaacson, "Steve Jobs"
Ram Dass, "Be Here Now"
Mark Zuckerberg's 2015 public remarks on his India trip

PHOTO CREDITS
Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg photos used are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images (CC BY-SA).

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