Word: rishikesh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just ten days of the meditative life with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh proved sufficient for Ringo Starr, 27, and Wife Maureen, who fled back to the more familiar vision of London. "The meditation camp is a bit like summer camp," said the littlest Beatle, who left his three confreres to finish out their month. "We all lived in chalets, and we used to go to the canteen for breakfast, then perhaps walk about a bit and meditate, or bathe. Then it was time for lunch." He and Maureen gave up such transcendental experiences, said Ringo, "because we missed...
...wooded hillside overlooking the Ganges River came perhaps the strangest group of pilgrims since Chaucer's in the Canterbury Tales. There, near the town of Rishikesh, 53 persons from ten nations gathered in a grove to pay their homage. Prosperous West German businessmen mingled with bearded Scandinavians. A 26-year-old Bengali interrupted his bicycle tour of the world to drop in. Mia Farrow, Frank Sinatra's absentee wife, and her brother and sister put in appearances at one time or another. And over in Bungalow No. 6, topping off the list of those seeking wisdom and truth...
Holy Hilton. What's Happening in Rishikesh is a bearded gnome named Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (TIME, Oct. 20), the Hindu mystic and founder of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement, who recently acquired a standing-room audience on a U.S. speaking tour. The Maharishi, 56, has attracted his guests by offering something like instant nirvana; by meditating for just an hour or so a day according to his methods, he says, anyone may transcend "the gross state of thought" to find deeper wisdom. What is more, the Maharishi offers to bring the blessings of wisdom to the faithful "without their having...
...turmoil. The Maharishi's guards used barbed wire and billy clubs to fence off a horde of reporters and photographers trying to cover the retreat. After one photographer was whacked repeatedly by a gang of sentries when he wandered past the guard station, the Indian police arrived at Rishikesh to open an investigation. Because the Maharishi charges $800 for three months' room and board, the police may also declare the ashram a hotel and force the Maharishi to register guests like a holy Conrad Hilton...
...Regeneration Movement" has spread quickly outside India. Transcendental meditation is now practiced by an estimated 100,000 followers in 35 countries from Denmark to New Zealand. Headquarters of the spiritual empire is the Maharishi's academy on a shaded, 15-acre site overlooking the sacred Ganges River at Rishikesh, 130 miles north of New Delhi. When the guru, a bachelor, is not proselytizing about the globe, he resides at Rishikesh in a simple, red brick bungalow, where he often meditates for 20 or 30 days at a stretch. His bedroom is air-conditioned...