A Hindu guru who died in 1973, yet his name surfaces whenever Silicon Valley founders talk mysticism - because a handful of Westerners who sat with him in India came home and built the counterculture, then the internet.
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Born Lakshmi Narayan Sharma around 1900, he became a wandering devotee of Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, and gathered followers who called him Maharaj-ji. Westerners began finding their way to him in northern India in the 1960s and early 1970s, drawn by word of mouth and the promise of something beyond what the West offered. He taught through presence more than doctrine, and those who sat with him carried his influence into unexpected domains. He died on 11 September 1973, but the trail he left runs through decades of American spiritual seeking and technological ambition alike.
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