Washington: Apple's visionary co-founder Steve Jobs had a spiritual side too shaped by a "spiritual retreat to India" and "traversing through the country had sparked Jobs' conversion to Buddhism." Like the Beatles, Jobs took a spiritual retreat to India and regularly walked around his neighbourhood and the office barefoot, according to various media reports. Traversing India sparked Jobs' conversion to Buddhism. Kobun Chino, a monk, presided over his wedding to Laurene Powell, a Stanford University MBA.
The name of Jobs' company is said to be inspired by the Beatles' Apple Corps, which repeatedly sued the electronics maker for trademark infringement until signing an exclusive digital distribution deal with iTunes, CNN said. Rebirth is a precept of Buddhism, and Apple experienced rebirth of sorts when Jobs returned, after he was fired, to remake a company that had fallen the verge of bankruptcy.
In Autumn 1974, Jobs took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games, with the primary intent of saving money for his spiritual retreat to India. Jobs then travelled to India to visit the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment.
He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".
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