During the town-hall meeting with Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that when his company was going through a rough patch, Steve Jobs advised him to visit a temple in India, where the Apple co-founder had also experienced life-changing spiritual reflection.

Speaking with Narendra Modi, Zuckerberg described a “tough patch” in the early days of Facebook and said that:

“This is a story I haven’t told publicly, and very few people know. Early on in our history, before things were really going well, we hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook, and thought we should sell the company. I went and I saw one of my mentors, Steve Jobs, and he told me that in order to reconnect with what I thought was the mission of the company, I should visit this temple that he had gone to in India early on in his evolution of thinking about what he wanted Apple and his vision of the future to be.”

Although Zuckerberg did not disclose more details of this particular temple, he did mention how that journey to India helped him clear his head and turn into a visionary (or a businessman as some may say) with a mission to connect billions of people around the world through Facebook. Now, the question arises that, which temple did Steve Jobs suggest Mark Zuckerberg to visit? Every Apple fan is likely familiar with Steve Jobs’ pilgrimage to India during which he believed to have got the vision to create Apple. The temple in question here is to be Kainchi Ashram nestled somewhere in the hills of Uttarakhand.

Deeply influenced by the Indian spiritualism in 70s, Steve Jobs, once a penniless college drop-out who would walk seven miles every Sunday to get weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple, visited Kainchi Dham Ashram, in Nainital, in the state of Uttarakhand (the Ashram of Baba Neem Karoli or Baba Neeb Karori, considered a reincarnation of Lord Hanuman) where he is believed to have got his enlightenment to build Apple. It is also said that Jobs wasn’t able to meet Baba Neem Karoli of Kainchi Ashram in person – he had died before Jobs’ arrival.

India and a certain temple did leave a lasting impression on Jobs’ mind. Back in 1997, he has been reported to advise rival Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates to broaden his vision and take a spiritual retreat to India. “I just think he (Gates) and Microsoft is a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger,” Jobs once told the New York Times.

No wonder when Zuckerberg revealed this startling episode from his and Facebook’s life, PM Modi couldn’t stop smiling and quipping. “You went to a temple with a lot of hope, and look how much you’ve achieved since then,” Modi said.

Zuckerberg, of course, didn’t end up selling Facebook, and instead opted to take the company public. Now, nearly 1.5 billion people use Facebook each month, and the company currently has a market capitalization of over $254 billion.  However, India and the certain temple went on to turn two relatively unknown faces become visionaries, and then billionaires.