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Bhagavan Das (Devanagari: भगवान दास) (born Kermit Michael Riggs) is an American yogi who lived for six years in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. He is a bhakti yogi , kirtan singer, spiritual teacher and writer.
Jun 10, 2016 · Bhagavan Das is a performer of traditional and non-traditional Indian bhajans and kirtans, a counter-cultural icon, and a yogi who lived for many years as a wandering ascetic in India, Nepal,...
Karmageddon: Directed by Jeff Brown, Paul Hemrend. Karmageddon is an investigation of contemporary Western spirituality in the wake of the 1960s. It follows Bhagavan Das, an American whose spiritual journey to India in 1964 would shift American spirituality.
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- Jeff Brown, Paul Hemrend
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- Documentary, Biography, Drama
Bhagavan Das came to fame in the best-selling book “Be Here Now” by Ram Dass, the Harvard professor fired with Timothy Leary for their LSD experiments in the 1960s. He is the seeker who led Ram Dass to the feet of his guru- Neem Karoli Baba.
Finally turned on, tuned in and dropped out of the business world, rediscovered himself as “Bhagavan Das” the mystic, hooked up with another eighteen-year-old girl whom he took as both a lover and disciple, etc.
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Bhagavan Das is an American yogi who lived for six years in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka in the 1960s and became a trailblazer in the early kirtan movement in America. He introduced Richard Alpert (who later became Ram Dass) to his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba and the rest is history.