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TIME Geneva Stringer Robert Kroon, who interviewed TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the French Alps not long ago, still claims to receive all the transcendental soothing he needs from the music of J.S. Bach. In a modern Western hotel, surrounded by efficient American business types and electronic paraphernalia, Kroon recounts, the Maharishi seemed a bit uprooted, "like a flamingo in an Arctic landscape," but he still registered as an affable and reasonably forthcoming personality...
Last week the man who brought TM to America and the rest of the world, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was in the U.S. on one of his infrequent visits to spread The Word. The white-bearded guru visited his new university, the Maharishi International University in Iowa, and then flew to Los Angeles, where he taped the Merv Griffin show. Scores of his followers were in the audience, welcoming their leader with the traditional Indian greeting in which the hands are held, prayer-like, just below the chin...
...Institute of Psychology and Physical Therapy in New Delhi. "It is merely a technique, a very limited technique, and it is not yogic because it lacks the prerequisites of yogic meditation. A moral life is the sine qua non of yoga practice. The students and admirers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi have no need to give up sex, liquor and other immoral habits. They are reveling in immoral habits at the cost of basic moral values." TM, adds A.K. Krishna Nambiar, publisher and editor of Spiritual India, "can make you a better executive, but it cannot give you the spiritual ecstasy...
...Runyonesque drinking companion to personae athletic, literary and political opened the swinging doors of a new bar across the street from Madison Square Garden. "A good saloonkeeper is the most important man in the community," philosophized Toots, whose jampacked first-night crowd included Yankee Manager Billy Martin, ex-Met Yogi Berra, former Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey and Basketball Commissioner Larry O'Brien. And what had the legendary raconteur been doing during these past two years of unemployment? "I've spent my time going to other bars," answered Toots...
...that they tell almost everything about TM except how to go about it. Readers are referred to the 397 meditation centers across the country that offer a seven-session course in the TM fundamentals for $125 ($65 for college students). Following the procedures set up by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the nonprofit TM movement, new recruits are initiated in candlelit, incense-filled rooms. Trained teachers assign each student a personal mantra-a meaningless sound that must be kept secret. Students are taught to close their eyes for 20 minutes twice daily, focus on their mantra, and let their...