I’d do this electronically, which has zero cost for me. What I’m saying is that if I was somebody who had some valuable knowledge that I wanted to spread (which I presume Ram Dass is) and whose core philosophy of life were to be “I want to spread my teachings for the greater good of humanity” (which I presume Ram Dass’ is) I’d make all of my teachings (specially my seminal pieces) available as Public Domain works, for free. No, you are not understanding me correctly. The printed had pulled the job off the press to await further instructions.Įxcerpt from The Divine Reality of Sri Baba Neeb Karori Ji Maharaj by Ravi Prakash Pande “Rajida” The original was also missing, so a new plate could not be made. The book could not be printed because Baba’s photograph, which was to be printed on a full page, was missing. After a week he received a reply reporting a strange incident. When you printed it first, you thought it was true, but now that you know it isn’t, you can’t print lies. Maharaji said, “Money and truth have nothing to do with each other. It would be a loss of $10,000 to reject the thirty thousand books.
Explaining the situation to Baba, he said that the changes could only be incorporated into the next edition. He contacted Steve Durkee and found out that the next thirty thousand copies were, in fact, in print. He expected that about thirty thousand copies would have been printed. Ram Dass became anxious because a long time had elapsed, and the book might already have been published.
Delete those passages from the book.” Ram Dass talks about the origin of Be Here Now on Here and Now Ep.
Yet five months later he drew Ram Dass’ attention to some untruths in two passages of the book and said, “Lies should not be mentioned in this book. He gave instructions to the publisher to print the book and came to India with the first copy to present to Maharaji. With Maharaji’s permission, Ram Dass published the book Be Here Now in America in 1971. The origin of Ram Dass’s Be Here Now is explored in this excerpt from The Divine Reality of Sri Baba Neeb Karori Ji Maharaj.
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