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...Yoga was little known in the U.S. - perhaps only as an enthusiasm of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other icons of the Beat Generation - when the Beatles and Mia Farrow journeyed to India to sit at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Since then, yoga has endured more evolutions of popular consciousness than a morphing movie monster. First it signaled spiritual cleansing and rebirth, a nontoxic way to get high. Then it was seen as a kind of preventive medicine that helped manage and reduce stress. "The third wave was the fitness wave," says Richard Faulds, president...
Like a great many Indians, Mahesh Patel was at home last Friday morning at 8:45 watching the televised Republic Day parade of India's armed forces. Suddenly, the TV set blacked out and his living room in Ahmedabad, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, began to shake like a storm-tossed raft. Toward the end of the 45-second quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey says hit 7.9 on the Richter scale, Patel heard a violent snapping sound. He ran out just as a neighboring four-story house collapsed in a roiling cloud of dust. As their home...
...will is our peace), wrote Dante of the joys of heaven, where all choice is excluded by contemplation of the Divine: perfect obedience, perfect happiness, no worries. For God, substitute adepts, the People, the Charismatic Leader, or any one of a number of beguiling gurus, from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to Jim Jones with his refreshing drafts of Kool-Aid in distant, steamy Guyana. The Utopian state of mind indicates a yearning to be released from history, to shed the burdens of free will, failure, improvisation...
Everything changed in the shock wave of the '60s, from the music and the clothes to the cultural icons. Eastern religions were in; the words mantra and ashram entered our vocabulary, and gurus emerged to offer us paths to enlightenment. A Hindu swami calling himself Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced Transcendental Meditation to the West and collected celebrity followers; and a fired Ivy League psychology professor named Richard Alpert went to India and became Ram Dass, servant of God. Three decades later, they are both back in the news...
When the Beatles huddled with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1967, he was already exporting Transcendental Meditation to a waiting world. By 1975 his U.S. organization had 370 centers, and 30,000 people a month were signing on to learn his 40-min. technique for finding bliss. This was no holy hermit: that same year he was on the cover of TIME...