Jobs became disenchanted with India after his visit and
returned to work in the United States.
or out in the open, and attended religious festivals. Their goal
was to go to the village of Kainchi to meet Neem Karoli Baba,
Friedland’s guru, who Jobs hoped would help him achieve spiri-
tual enlightenment. When they got to Kainchi, they found out
that the guru was dead.
Jobs considered seeking out another guru, but he did not do
so. He had not found the answers he was seeking in India. The
extreme poverty he saw there caused him to become disenchanted
with the country. “It was one of the first times I started thinking
that maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world
than . . . [Friedland’s guru] Neem Karoli Baba,” 30 he explains.
He returned to the United States, still searching for answers.
He spent time at the All One Farm. It was an Oregon commune,
located on land that Robert Friedland owned. Steve ran the apple
orchard, which had been neglected until he revitalized it. He also
helped the commune to start a successful business selling wood
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