Rant!
The above pictures are from September 2020 before their visit. You can clearly see the difference b/w then and now if you have been to Kainichi Dham recently.
I absolutely hate Virat and Anushka with all my heart for ruining the Kainchi Dham temple. Before their visit, the temple was such a serene place to visit and meditate. You could sit there for hours, reflecting in peace. After their visit—which could have been handled more discreetly—all the Instagram wannabe influencers and travelers started flocking to the place.
Now, the temple is anything but a place of devotion. It has become a commercial venture rather than a space for reflection or worship. Hundreds of homestays and restaurants have popped up, and the narrow road leading to the temple is overwhelmed by the sheer volume of traffic. Local residents are often stuck in traffic for hours, and God forbid someone has a medical emergency—ambulances are unable to transport patients in time for treatment.
To make matters worse, the lack of civic sense among some of our illustrious citizens has resulted in littering everywhere, turning this once-beautiful place into a literal shithole in a matter of months.
The most disappointing thing of all is that most of these so-called bhakts are nothing more than people seeking to post an Instagram picture or story to earn internet brownie points and validation.
Stupid Instagram pages like that of "Takla Guruji of Delhi" have popped up, sharing absurd quotes like, "Baba aap ki har ichha 2025 mein puri karne wale hain." How can people be so gullible? Many of them had never even heard of Neem Karoli Baba before Virat and Anushka's visit, and they are most certainly unaware of his teachings or the profound impact he had on the world.
To make matters worse, they are perpetuating myths—the most common being that Baba gave Steve Jobs a half-eaten apple, which inspired the logo and name of his company. This is outright false. People don’t even realize that Steve Jobs first visited India in mid-1974, whereas Baba passed away in 1973 in Vrindavan. While it is true that Jobs visited Kainchi Dham and later advised Mark Zuckerberg to do the same when Facebook's future was uncertain, Jobs and Baba never had an encounter—because, quite simply, Baba had already passed away.