Apple's visionary co-founder Steven Paul Jobs struggled with cancer and related health complications in a battle he sadly could not overcome, but he has left behind an incredible legacy of applied technology that shifted the course of human progress in dramatic ways, and founded a company, and a culture, that promise to continue his passionate drive to make tools that are not just intuitive, but aspire to be insanely great. I just overheard a son say to his dad about the great hardware icon you know Dad, Steve Jobs was to our generation what Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison were to previous generations. Probably summing up everything in one word he was right!!!!!!

Jobs had a spiritual side too shaped by a "spiritual retreat to India" and "traversing through the country had sparked Jobs' conversion to Buddhism." In autumn 1974, Jobs took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games, with the primary intent of saving money for his spiritual retreat to India. Jobs then travelled to India to visit the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He went back as a staunch Buddhist and with a shaven head and co-launched Apple.

The philosophic gains he witnessed, has been chronicled in a book STEVE JOBS, THE JOURNEY IS THE REWARD. His address at Stanford in 2005 while he was fighting his battle against death clearly states his maturity. He said No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.” That was similar to a quip I heard Woody Allen once make. “I’d like to attain immortality by not dying.” “And yet,” continued Jobs, “death is the destination we all share.”

Like the Beatles, Jobs took a spiritual retreat to India and regularly walked around his neighbourhood and the office barefoot," the CNN report said.