Gumby Creator Art Clokey

"In January 1979, Clokey and his second wife, Gloria, stopped in southern India to meet Sai Baba, about whom they had read for five years. . A Gumby doll at his side, Clokey photographed Sai Baba materializing sacred ash in the palm of his hand. "He dropped it right on Gumby," Clokey says. "He does that for special blessings." When the Clokeys and Gumby returned to Los Angeles, "things started to happen." Gumby shows at colleges and movie theatres, an explosion of Gumby paraphernalia, and offers from production companies proved that Gumby’s adventures, last filmed in the late 1960s, Clokey, who did not become nearly as wealthy as Gumby fans might suspect, hopes to set aside some of the new income for a special tribute to his adoptive father, Joseph Clokey, a Pomona music professor from 1926 to 1939."

Another man asked Baba to make him the richest man in India. Baba complied.

I give you what you want so that you will want what I have to give. -Baba-