(Technewonline) In the '70s, Steve Jobs came to India and met a famous master. For then, favorite fruits mentor became the logo of one of the most famous companies in the world.
There are many stories surrounding the meaning and origin of the Apple logo. Some say that Steve Jobs was inspired by one of his favorite bands, the Beatles, the band has disk label called Apple. Others say Apple logo comes from the days of Steve Jobs was a young man working at an apple farm, this story did mention in Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson recently. Jobs performed only diet full of fruits and named Apple "looks funny, funny, lively, strong and does not seem big words".
"Moreover," Jobs said, "Apple name will help us to appear before Atari tech companies in the phonebook".
But the truth can not be so simple. There is an alternative explanation of the origin of the name and Apple logo comes from the holy land in India and the pilgrimage to meet a "master" can dish favorite fruit is apples.
Before Jobs founded the largest technology company in the world today, Jobs went to India in early 1974, and to meet with Neem Karoli Baba, who is also known as Maharaj-ji. He is a "saint" famous Hindu India.
Seen as a symbol of the god Hanuman, iconic incarnation of Lord Vishnu, Maharaj-ji as a magnet attracting young Westerners to "journey to the East" very familiar at the time . Larry Brilliant Key, an epidemiologist each operating charities Google Google.org and the Skoll Global Threats Fund surveillance Fund, was one of those early meetings with Maharaj-ji. Subramanyum name, Maharaj-ji he was tasked to destroy smallpox, a project that he undertook with the help of the World Health Organization.
At that time, Jobs was working at Atari fledgling video game company in Los Angeles. But religious spiritual seeds were sown in his heart long ago. Jai Uttal, a musician and as a friend of Jobs said he met with friends Steve Jobs Steve Jobs, Maharaj-ji talked about and this has stimulated the desire to meet Maharaj-ji's Steve Jobs.
Jobs to New Delhi in January 4/1974, in a cheap hotel and almost as soon as he was suffering from dysentery. Even after recovery, Jobs went to Haridwar in western India to attend a grand festival of the Hindu festival Kumbh Mela called (Festival Ganges bath). From there, he caught a train and a bus to Kainchi in the foothills of the Himalayas Neem Karoli Baba to meet. He rented a room only mattress on the floor of a local family. This family gave the diet to Jobs. But he arrived too late, Maharaj-ji died.
There is one other devotees KAGEL Jeffrey, also known as Krishna Das, an American yoga teacher. Like many others, he also came and brought many Maharaj-ji apple to give. He said: "We heard that Maharaj-ji is like apples, so we bought apples".
Like Krishna Das, Jobs never forgot his time in the holy land Kainchi. Though he arrived too late and missed the Maharaj-ji, but almost in his life, Jobs continued to pursue prajna, a Sanskrit word used in Hindu philosophy and Buddhism, means consciousness or wisdom, understanding based on the recognition of the nature of reality. This understanding is achieved through meditation and mindfulness.
In the years that followed, Jobs also to Buddhism to find the answer. But the first major pilgrimage in his life has taken him to India, to a Hindu gurus like to eat apples. Very likely, this is the origin of the name and logo of Apple, the technology company with the greatest value in the world today.
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