His Love Serve Remember Foundation is dedication to preserving his teachings and those of Neem Karoli Baba. He also helped create the Seva Foundation, which works to prevent blindness and helps community groups in developing countries.

In 1974, Ram Dass founded the Hanuman Foundation, which set up programs such as the Prison Ashram Project to introduce inmates to spirituality. He wrote about his experiences with drugs, set up projects to help prisoners and those facing terminal illness and sought to enlighten others about the universal struggle with aging. Over the years, Ram Dass - born Richard Alpert - associated with the likes of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg.

… It’s just beautiful,” he told followers in a videotaped message at the time from his hospital bed in Hawaii. “I had really thought about checking out, but your love and your prayers convinced me not to do it. More recently, he underwent hip surgery after he was injured in a fall in November 2008, according to his website. He had suffered a severe stroke in 1997 that left him paralyzed on the right side and, for a time, unable to speak. He was 88.ĭass’ foundation, Love Serve Remember, announced late Sunday that the author and spiritual leader died peacefully at his home earlier in the day. HONOLULU (AP) - Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and traveled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with Americans, has died.

Baba ram dass be here now