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Love Everyone

The Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Stories of the Westerners Whose Lives He Transformed

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A celebration of one of the most influential spiritual leaders of our time: Neem Karoli Baba, the enlightened guru who inspired a generation of seekers—including Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman, and Larry Brilliant—on life-altering journeys that helped change the world.

In 1967, Ram Dass returned to the West from India and spread the teachings of his mysterious guru, Neem Karoli Baba, better known as Maharajji. Ram Dass’s words about Maharajji’s life-affirming wisdom resonated with a youth culture that had grown disillusioned with the violence, civil discord, and crude materialism of modern civilization. Hundreds of Westerners traveled to India and experienced Maharajji’s extraordinary presence directly until his death in 1973. His simple directives—love everyone, feed everyone, and remember God—opened their hearts and awakened their souls.

What these followers brought back to the West has since changed the landscape of everyday life. Meditation is now mainstream; yoga studios are in every town; and mindfulness is practiced in elementary schools and board-rooms everywhere, from Silicon Valley to Capitol Hill. A stirring piece of history, Love Everyone brings these stories to life, sharing for the first time the inspiring tales of the men and women who followed the siren call of the East to the foothills of the Himalayas, then returned to forever reshape the world.

A compelling and inspiring tribute to Maharajji from the Western men and women who knew him best, Love Everyone is a profound teaching on the power of love, as lasting and transformative as the truth, wisdom, and bliss of Maharajji.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 14, 2015
      Inspired by American spiritual teacher Ram Dass and Be Here Now, his groundbreaking book, many young North Americans in the early 1970s found their way to the eccentric Indian guru Neem Karoli Baba. His primary instruction, Markus reports, was simply to “love everyone, feed everyone, and remember God.” Markus, herself a member of Baba’s satsang, or community of devotees, has woven many interviews into a narrative of a remarkable time. Amid picaresque tales of being on the loose in India, Markus details an array of seekers who bear witness to the profound influence of their adored guru’s “unconditional love.” Markus notes that while most of the satsang “didn’t get into ‘feeding’ everyone” while in India, a number (including Ram Dass, renowned epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, and psychology writer Daniel Goleman) later made significant social contributions. The recollections, full of vivid detail, are largely uncritical, and readers pining for some analysis—psychological, social, cultural, or gender-based—won’t find much here. These are, after all, “love stories,” providing an intriguing glimpse into the possibilities for spiritual change and reminding readers that 45 years ago, young people looking for something more helped spark significant cultural shifts.

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