Steve Jobs was one of the most successful people in our history. Not only because of he was the founder of Apple, but he is also the father of modern technology. But there is a mysterious point in his life when he became full of new ideas and founded Apple. Perhaps the story began when, at the age of 17, he received a book called The Autobiography of a Yogi. A book he reads once a year. Steve Jobs amazed the world day by day with new ideas. He was the one who started the microcomputer revolution. Until he took the last breath of his life at the height of his success.

But at his memorial service, a gift was given to attendees on his behalf. In fact, this was his last gift to his fans and people. Would you like to know what this gift was? This gift was nothing but the book of autobiography of a yogi. But why does Steve Jobs read this book every year? And why was his will to the people to read this book? Perhaps Zuckerberg's statement shows the importance of Jobs' gift to you. In the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mark Zuckerberg said that when his company was being destroyed, Steve Jobs offered him this book and told him to travel to India and visit a particular temple.

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Yes travel to India, Visiting a temple and meeting a mysterious man is the mysterious point in Steve Jobs' life. Steve was studying at Reed College in Portland in 1973 at the age of 19 when he suddenly left the university and traveled to India with his friend Daniel Kottke to seek inspiration and enlightenment. He went to a temple in New Delhi to see Neem Karoli Baba and then embarked on a journey to northern India and the Himalayas to find a holy man. Finally, after four months, he returned to the United States with a shaved head and started Apple Computer.

The book autobiography of a yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures. In fact, this book is an introduction to the methods of achieving spiritual wisdom, first published in 1946.

The book also mentions a person named Babaji. Born in 203 AD and now living in a cave in the Himalayas. Were you surprised? According to this book, Babaji has lived in the remote Himalayas of India for at least hundreds of years, seen only by a small number of students and others in person, and Steven Jobs is undoubtedly one of them. Because the person Steve and his friend were going to visit in Delhi was none other than Babaji's close student, and they knew that he had recently left his mortal body inside the Kainchi Dham temple in Delhi. That's why he decided to see the master himself. The video below is Daniel Kottke's interview that explain the story of the trip. To read this book, you must maximize your understanding. And you can get help from our previous 7 articles.

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Autobiography of a Yogi: The Original 1946 Edition plus Bonus Material