Bhagavan Das - (without his dreads!) - discusses Love & Consciousness - Healing Waters, CA, 1979

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. In 1963 at the age of 18, Bhagavan Das left California and journeyed solo through Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East, eventually arriving in India. He was the first American to live in the jungle of the Himalayas as a hermit-sadhu. He was given the holy name of Ram by Maharishi Mahe