Baba Ram Dass, spiritual leader passes away at 88
Baba Ram Dass, the spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and travelled to India to find learning, returning to share it with Americans, has passed away at the age of 88 on Sunday. Love Serve Remember, Dass' foundation, announced on Sunday that the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader passed away peacefully at his home. Meanwhile, no cause of death was given in the announcement. According to the information, Ram Dass suffered a severe stroke in 1997 that left him paralyzed on the right side and for a time wasn't able to speak. In 2008,, he underwent hip surgery after he got injured in a fall. While he was in hospital in Hawaii, he told his followers that "I had really thought about checking out, but your love and your prayers convinced me not to do it. ... It's just beautiful." Ram Dass born Richard Alpert was associated with the likes of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. In fact, he had wrote about his experience with drugs, set up projects to help prisoners and those facing illness and sought to tell others bout the universal struggle with aging. https://www.ptcnews.tv/kanpur-pm-narendra-modi-falls-on-the-stairs-at-ganga-ghat-video/ Baba Ram Dass is well-known for his 1971 "Be Here Now," written on his trip to India. The spiritual leader found its way into thousands of backpacks around the world. Following Ginsberg's advice, he headed to India in 1967, where he met his guru Neem Karoli Baba. His guru introduced him to yoga, meditation, Buddhism and Sufism. Thereafter, he got a name Ram Dass, Hindi for "Servant of God." -PTC News
