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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 orig. Mahad Prasad Varma

(born 1911?, India) Indian religious leader, founder of Transcendental Meditation (TM). He took a degree in physics before going to the Himalayas to study the Advaita school of Vedanta religious thought with the yogi Guru Dev for 13 years. He arrived in the U.S. in 1959, preaching the virtues of TM; in the 1960s the Beatles were perhaps his most celebrated followers. The Maharishi (the title means “Great Sage”) returned to India in the late 1970s and moved to The Netherlands in 1990. His organization, which includes real estate holdings, schools, and clinics, was worth more than $3 billion in the late 1990s.



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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi popularized TM--a derivative of Hinduism--in the United States and, according to his Web site, five million people practice it worldwide.
The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi brought a classic Hindu mantra style meditation to the United States, which became well known as Transcendental Meditation or simply, TM (Goleman, 1977).
TM is a simple program for the mind, allowing the conscious mind to become aware of its "unbounded dignity," according to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the worldwide transcendental meditation movement.
 
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