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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917-2008)
Beatles Guru, Father of Transcendental Meditation

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, is one of the most illustrious modern sages of the Vedic Tradition of India. He was guru to the Beatles, and introduced the West to transcendental meditation to spiritually regenerate mankind and create world peace.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, according to most sources, was born Mahesh Prasad Varma in Jabalpur, India on January 12, 1917. He earned a degree in physics at Allahabad University and became a disciple of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati of Jyotir Math, located in the Himalayas.

In 1957, Maharishi launched the worldwide Transcendental Meditation Movement, but it truly began in the blissful, infinite silence of his Master, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati.

In 1953, after 12 years of service to the feet of his Guru, Maharishi retired to the caves of the 'Valley of the Saints' in Uttar Kashi, high in the Himålayas.
Deep in the silence of the Himålayas, the impulse of Nature itself led Maharishi in 1955 to leave his secluded life in Uttar Kashi and travel to the southern-most tip of India, with no other thought or plan in his mind than simply to follow the whisper of Nature at Råmeshvaram in Kerala. But in this innocent move was contained the blueprint of a new age and a new civilization, just as the sprouting of a seed has all the vitality to expand and produce the fruit, season after season.

Since Maharishi traveled from India five decades ago for the first of his 10 world tours, over five million people have learned his Transcendental Meditation. The wide-ranging benefits of his program have been documented by more than 600 scientific studies conducted at 250 independent universities and research institutes in 33 countries, and published in leading, peer-reviewed scientific journals. For example, the U.S. government's National Institutes of Health have provided $24 million to study the effects of Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation for preventing cardiovascular disease, improving health, and promoting optimal brain functioning.

Maharishi revived in its completeness the ancient Vedic science of consciousness. In addition to bringing out Transcendental Meditation and its advanced techniques, Maharishi also revived the Vedic science of health care, architecture, organic agriculture, education, defense, and prevention-oriented, problem-free governmental administration.

Maharishi also integrated Vedic science with the latest discoveries of modern science. Working in collaboration with the world's leading scientists, led by Dr. Hagelin, Maharishi revealed that the fundamental field of consciousness-Atma, the Self, as described in Vedic science-is identical to the Unified Field described by the superstring theories of physics.

To bring his Vedic Science-Based, Unified Field-Based knowledge to all areas of society, Maharishi founded thousands of highly successful schools, colleges, and universities as well as medical centers and health clinics throughout the world. Maharishi has also written a series of profound books on his Vedic approaches to education, health, government, management, and defense, as well as an acclaimed commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. In addition, there is a vast video library of 30,000 hours of Maharishi's lectures, which are now being featured in training courses and conferences, and broadcast over Maharishi's global satellite network and websites.

As a monument to Maharishi's achievement of the foundation of permanent world peace, the leaders of his global movement resolved to build in 48 of the largest countries a grand, marble-clad 12-story "Maharishi Tower of Invincibility." Each Tower showcases the totality of Maharishi's knowledge and will include a high school or university where students will practice Yogic Flying together in groups to create coherence and invincibility for the nation. Future plans call for the Maharishi Towers of Invincibility to be built in all 192 countries of the world.

In 1990, Maharishi started coordinated his global activities from his residence in Vlodrop, the Netherlands, where he passed away peacefully on February 5, 2008
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi peacefully passed away at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop on Tuesday, February 5, 2008. He was one of the most illustrious modern sages of the Vedic Tradition of India. Known the world over as the guru to the Beatles, Maharishi introduced the West to transcendental meditation to spiritually regenerate mankind and create world peace.

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The Beatles and hairy hippies loved the late yogi but, says Adam Edwards, he had a lot to answer for... Here's an article from telegraph.co.uk

It was the summer of 1968 when the teachings of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ruined the fun. By then it had been a year since the spiritual leader had made his presence felt in England, and the not quite so fashionable world had finally caught up.


Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who died this week

The casual greeting of "peace, man" that had dominated the jolly 1967 Summer of Love had been replaced by the dirge-like chanting of the word "OM". In student pads across the land the long-haired youth of Britain now sat cross-legged in the lotus position, an open hand on each knee, with the thumb and forefinger making a circle. The ubiquitous low moan encouraged by copious quantities of hashish cut through the haze of joss sticks and drowned out that year's must-have album, The Moody Blues' In Search of a Lost Chord.

Social intercourse broke down as believers left the room to meditate, hoping to mentally fly in much the same way as 20 years later the trendy slipped off to take cocaine. Only then it was called Transcendental Meditation (TM) and was about as exciting to us non-believers as a Wimpy Bar cheeseburger.

The late Sixties saw the blossoming of a score of movements such as the Children of God and the Krishna Consciousness, whose orange-robed squadrons wandered through London's streets tinkling bells and asking for money. And while most right-thinking English hippies took no notice, many were influenced by the biggest cheese of all, the Maharishi, who claimed that he could guarantee inner peace with just 30 minutes of meditation a day.

By the time he appeared in the UK in 1967 the Beatles were falling out of love with the Maharishi and TM. But it was too late. The young had started to follow the hippie trail to India in search of enlightenment (and dope). Mike Love of the Beach Boys became a TM teacher and even tough guy Clint Eastwood fell for it.
And the teachings of the Maharishi and TM have continued to dog the more flakey English middle classes ever since. The eccentric filmmaker David Lynch - and I'm being polite - and singer Donovan recently tried to persuade listeners to Radio 4's Today programme of the benefits of TM (unsuccessfully). The Natural Law Party promised yogic flying as a reward for voting for it. Only Lynne Franks, the PR who inspired Ab Fab, says she doesn't do it - but only because she admits she forgot her mantra.

Many of those who knew TM converts remain disenchanted. Suzannah Davies, an ex-model and part of the Swinging Sixties, says a close friend went to India to join the Maharishi shortly after the Beatles. "She was there almost 20 years and like all those sects was encouraged to stop seeing her friends," says Suzannah. "When her money ran out she was kicked out. It crushed her. She came home never having experienced nirvana. She was a shadow of her former self and to this day cannot bear loud noise."

Another hippy sighs: "My sister got the TM thing in the early 80s. I'd find signs on the living room door saying KEEP OUT: I'M LEVITATING. She even asked the owner of a country pile if he would vacate his house, taking his staff, so she and a hundred TM friends could use it for a mind-improving weekend of levitation and lentils. Sensibly he said no."

Forty years on, the Yogi's teachings are just as batty to most of us, with modern practitioners not visibly different to the Sixties meditating freaks. They still look quizzically at non-converts to assess our aura, produce pendulums to check our energy levels and bore us with what we should be eating and drinking. And they still insist on saying "OM".

But there is some good news on the Maharishi front - at least the Moody Blues have disbanded.

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