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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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"Maharishi Mahesh Yogi developed the Transcendental Meditation technique and was the leader and guru of a worldwide Transcendental Meditation Movement. He became a disciple and assistant of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya (spiritual leader) of Jyotirmath in the Indian Himalayas.In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Maharishi achieved fame as the guru to the Beatles, the Beach Boys and other celebrities. In the late 1970s, he started the TM-Sidhi programme that claimed to offer practitioners the ability to levitate and to create world peace.In 2008, the Maharishi announced his retirement from all administrative activities and went into silence until his death three weeks later. "