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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and leader of the worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways, including as a new religious movement and as non-religious. He became known as Maharishi and Yogi as an adult.
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culture · Indian guru (1911?–2008) · philosopher · writer · spiritual teacher · cleric · guru · also Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi, Yogi
Born 12 January 1917 · Died 5 February 2008 · Q244968
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2026· 19 entries
“Meantime I know that the Maharishi”
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“That was a source of disappointment to the maharishi. There was a measure of exasperation when he spoke to us in May because there is a large percentage of people in this country who have expressed their distaste for the government but in the end he came to the conclusion that the tradition of divide and rule in Britain was too deeply embedded.”
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“It seems a shame to deprive ordinary people of that just because the maharishi considers our government bellicose and warlike.”
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“s reputation continued to thrive. A gifted publicist, as well as a charismatic religious teacher of a more traditional kind, he carefully directed his teachings to suit changing fashions in the West. As the era of flower power and psychotropic revelation faded into the hard-nosed commercialism of the Reagan-Thatcher years, Maharishi”
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“I believe in God. And I believe in the custody of God vested in kings”
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“It goes to support the centres, it does not go on me. I have nothing.”
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“its purpose is to explain in theory and practice all that is needed to raise the consciousness of man to the highest possible level.”
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“Transcendental Meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.”
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“stepping down as leader of the TM movement”
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“Critics charged that the party was an effort to recruit people for Transcendental Meditation, and that it resembled”
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“the light of Total Knowledge”
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“Transcendental Meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results”
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“go around the country and give a gentle whisper to the population”
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India Today: UP CM Yogi Adityanath Meets Japanese Exchange Students In Lucknow As Selfies Go Viral – India Today - India Today
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India Today: Yogi Govt Cracks Down On Sugar Hoarding, Fixes Stock Limit & Releases Dues – India Today - India Today
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The New Indian Express: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi pitches shared culture as foundation for bilateral ties
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The Statesman: CM Yogi hosts India-Japan students for ‘A Dialogue with the Future’
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India Today: Yogi Adityanath to meet Japanese students, deepen India-Japan educational ties
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2009· 1 entry
McCartney commented that Transcendental Meditation was a gift the Beatles had received from the Maharishi at a time when they were looking for something to stabilise them
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2008· 5 entries
Died 2008-02-05.
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“In reply to a comment that Jesus Christ didn't have a public relations team.”
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The Maharishi announced his retirement from all administrative activities and went into silence until his death three weeks later
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The organization placed the value of their United States assets at about $300 million
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“It has been my pleasure at the feet of Guru Dev (Brahmananda Saraswati), to take the light of Guru Dev and pass it on in my environment. Now today, I am closing my designed duty to Guru Dev. And I can only say,”
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2006· 1 entry
That she "hated leaving on a note of discord and mistrust, when we had enjoyed so much kindness from the Maharishi"
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2004· 1 entry
Saying, "I had to get into politics to know what is wrong there
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2003· 1 entry
David Lynch began a fundraising project to raise US$1 billion "on behalf of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi" to build a meditation centre large enough to hold 8,000 skilled practitioners
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2002· 1 entry
Attempted to choose a king for the Talamanca, a "remote Indian reservation" in Costa Rica
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2001· 2 entries
Maharishi University Of Information Technology was founded at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh India
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Followers of the Maharishi founded Maharishi Vedic City a few miles north of Fairfield, Iowa, in the United States
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2000· 2 entries
The Maharishi founded the Global Country of World Peace (GCWP) "to create global world peace by unifying all nations in happiness, prosperity, invincibility and perfect health, while supporting the rich diversity of our
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Created the Global Country of World Peace, a non-profit world government organization, and appointed its leaders (crowned as rajas and majarajas, i
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1997· 1 entry
The Maharishi's organization built the largest wooden structure in the Netherlands without using any nails
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1993· 1 entry
And 2003, he decided to raise the fees for learning the TM technique
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1992· 3 entries
Harrison gave a benefit concert for the Maharishi-associated Natural Law Party and later apologised for the way the Maharishi had been treated, by saying, "We were very young" and "It's probably in the history books that
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And ran campaigns in dozens of countries
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The Maharishi began to send groups of Yogic Flyers to countries like India, Brazil, China and the United States of America in an effort to promote world peace through "coherent world consciousness"
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1991· 2 entries
With kidney and pancreas failure, that the illness was kept secret by the Maharishi's family, and that he tended to Maharishi during a year-long recovery
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The Maharishi called Washington, D
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1990· 1 entry
The Maharishi relocated his headquarters from Seelisberg, Switzerland, to a former Franciscan monastery in Vlodrop, the Netherlands, which became known as MERU, Holland, on account of the Maharishi European Research Univ
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1989· 1 entry
The Maharishi's movement began incorporating the term "Maharishi" into the names of their new and existing entities, concepts and programmes
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1983· 1 entry
The Maharishi invited government leaders to interact with his organization called "World Government"
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1977· 1 entry
Declared the movement to be religious, and ruled adoption of TM by public organisations to be in breach of the separation of church and state (First Amendment)
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1975· 3 entries
The Maharishi embarked on a five-continent trip to inaugurate what he called "the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment"
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And again in 1977, and this resulted in "tens of thousands of new practitioners" around the USA
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According to film director David Lynch, who met him for the first time there
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1974· 1 entry
Maharishi International University was founded at the site of the former Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa
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1972· 1 entry
The goal of which was to establish 3,600 TM centres around the world
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1970· 2 entries
The Maharishi held a TM teacher training course at a Victorian hotel in Poland Springs, Maine, with 1,200 participants
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After having trouble with Indian tax authorities, he moved his headquarters to Italy, returning to India in the late 1970s
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1969· 1 entry
Inaugurated a course in his Science of Creative Intelligence at Stanford University, which was then offered at 25 other American universities
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1968· 1 entry
The Maharishi announced that he would stop his public activities and instead begin the training of TM teachers at his new global headquarters in Seelisberg, Switzerland
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1967· 2 entries
The Maharishi's fame increased and his movement gained greater prominence when he became the "spiritual advisor to the Beatles", though he was already well known among young people in the UK and had already had numerous
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The Maharishi gave a lecture at Caxton Hall in London, which was attended by Leon MacLaren, the founder and leader of the School of Economic Science (SES)
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1966· 2 entries
The Maharishi founded the Students' International Meditation Society ("SIMS"), which The Los Angeles Times later characterised as a "phenomenal success"
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Included a course in India and a one-month tour in South America
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1964· 1 entry
Consisted of visits to many cities in North America, Europe and India
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1963· 1 entry
And also addressed ministers of the Indian Parliament
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1961· 1 entry
The Maharishi visited the United States, Austria, Sweden, France, Italy, Greece, India, Kenya, England, and Canada
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1960· 1 entry
The Maharishi traveled to many cities in India, France, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa
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1959· 3 entries
The Maharishi lectured and taught the Transcendental Meditation technique in Honolulu, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, New York and London
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His Spiritual Regeneration Movement was called Transcendental Meditation
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi began his first world tour, writing: "I had one thing in mind, that I know something which is useful to every man"
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1958· 1 entry
The Maharishi went to Madras to address a large crowd of people who had gathered to celebrate the memory of Guru Dev
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1957· 1 entry
In Madras, on the concluding day of the Seminar of Spiritual Luminaries
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1955· 2 entries
The Maharishi began to introduce his Transcendental Deep Meditation (later renamed Transcendental Meditation) to India and the world
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Brahmachari Mahesh left Uttarkashi and began publicly teaching what he stated was a traditional meditation technique learned from his master Brahmananda Saraswati, and that he called Transcendental Deep Meditation
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1953· 1 entry
When he moved to Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand in the Himalayas, where he undertook a reclusive life for two years
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1942· 1 entry
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became an assistant and disciple of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (also known as Guru Dev), the Shankaracharya (spiritual leader) of the Jyotir Math in the Indian Himalayas
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1941· 1 entry
Became an administrative secretary to the Shankaracharya of the Jyotir Math, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (also known as Guru Dev, which means "divine teacher") and took a new name, Bal Brahmachari Mahesh
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1940· 1 entry
At the feet of his master, when he learned the secret of swift and deep meditation
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-01-12.
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