Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“‘within the space of five minutes Harrison refers to an assortment of Indian musical genres: khyal…bhajan… [and] filmi”’, which is quite a feat to compose as flawlessly as he did (Guerrero 34-35). A year later, the group would go on to meet with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement, and the rest is history. The Beatles would go on to write more songs that subtly encompassed aspects of Indian music, such as “Strawberry Fields Forever,” but they would move on to…

Hinduism is the major religion in India and has developed from the Vedic religion. Hinduism can be said to be an indigenous religious because it has been around for such a long time. This religion has been around longer than 2000 years and has been well developed throughout India. Hinduism is considered to be of the oldest religions and as long as it been around there has been no major changes dealing with the religion or the culture. In the world religion book in the Hinduism chapter it states…

a word, sound, or phrase, to prevent distracting thoughts from entering an individual’s mind3. The founder of this movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was a well-educated man who earned a degree in physics before pursuing his spiritual path. His movement began to spread rapidly in the 1960’s when popular celebrities such as the Beatles began to utilize meditation. Maharishi also accomplished getting transcendental meditation introduced to public school in New Jersey.4 Transcendental meditation…

In the 1960’s, Beatlemania swept across North America and Europe, causing the Beatles to receive immense popularity. Their work has become immortalized across the decades because of their melodic tunes and the meanings behind them. Without a doubt, the Beatles are the most recognizable music act of all time. They inspired an entire generation of musicians and united people together for the love of music. Throughout the Beatles’ careers, they have become a symbol of love because of the way…

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The Beatles embarked on a highly publicised trip to the region of Rishikesh in Northern India in February of 1968. The reason for their joint venture was, principally, to attend a transcendental meditation course taught by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose exclusive seminars they had previously attended in London and Wales. The images of the four men and their wives at the train station leaving Britain for India made headlines all over the international press, and greatly spread the idea of…

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Since amendments were made to the ‘British Nationality law’ in the 1940s, people from the commonwealth islands (including India) had been immigrating to the UK for nearly 20 years – this meant that people of the Hindu and other religions had already introduced these faiths into British society and the world was already changing to be more cultural before the Beatles choice to follow them. The band only created higher popularity for these faiths amongst the population. Also their views on…