Purchase up to you, no guarantees, not current: This historical spiritual memoir is by one of the first American devotees of the guru Neem Karoli Baba made famous by Ram Dass in the classic 'Be Here Now'. Ravi Dass starts his quest right after college in 1964 at the urging of Allen Ginsberg to go to India for spiritual awakening (and some drugs). It will take you on an extraordinary journey from living with the great and not-so-great gurus of India to working for the largest and most influential companies in the world like IBM, HP, Grey Advertising and Young & Rubicam managing multimillion-dollar budgets during the PC and Internet revolutions. How Ravi Dass, known as Ron Zimardi, mysteriously managed to get jobs in and survive in corporate America for thirty years after India in the 60's is a story in itself. Ravi Dass encountered Baba Ram Dass when he was a monk at Ganeshpuri, the ashram of the controversial guru Swami Muktananda of Eat, Pray, Love fame in 1970. After fortunately meeting Ram Dass and seeing a copy of ‘Be Here Now’ he asked to be taken to his guru Maharaji in the Himalayas. From that moment on, this book interweaves the odyssey of a long time seeker with the mysterious hand of Maharaji that guided him for the next forty years from householder and now to Maui. Neem Karoli Baba considered Ravi Dass the actual incarnation of the 15th century Indian Saint Raidas.Ram Dass says on the back cover, ‘Ravi Dass is a very nice guy’. This is an actual story of true renunciation, the struggle to simplify and leave no trace or karma. Wandering for many years in search of truth and the Self, Ravi Dass finally realized that everything and everyone was sacred. The final message is to scale down and work together for the planet’s transformation. We must change from a materialist greed-based culture to a united global village rebuilt on the principles of mindfulness, compassion and integrity. Hopefully this book will inspire the search in others for their divine nature and to see the sacred in everything.Ravi Dass - Ron Zimardi, as I knew him as an IBM colleague - has written an extraordinary account of his decades-long search for the truth. The author’s travels and work have included everything from the Beat Generation…to Indian spirituality…to Silicon Valley capitalism. Few, if any, have lived such a rollicking life, much less offer such rare insights from so many perspectives.Mad Man Ron Zimardi's memories of Madison Avenue in the '60s recall the all-nighters we pulled at Grey Advertising crunching numbers for Revlon. We earned $100 a week and spent $10 million quarterly placing radio and TV ads on the networks. Ron is a genius - maybe what they'll someday call the archetypal 20th century man suited and corporate by day to earn a living for his family and Zen quest master by night in order to save his soul.What started out as a simple letter for my son and his progeny leaving the story of my life when I no longer can be that living voice has become the three hundred-eighty-nine page spiritual memoir ‘The Sacred Wanderer, An American Devotees Story’. It’s about my life with Neem Karoli Baba, Maharaji, in India and after he left his body but not his guidance, who most of you know as the guru in ‘Be Here Now’ by Ram Dass.Many families are ignorant of their ancestors these days, especially European immigrant families like mine. Many people tell me this is a great idea they would like to emulate in their own families. We are fortunate that there are Internet publishers that allow us to tell these stories directly to our readers bypassing the traditional publishing sector.
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