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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (12 January 1918 – 5 February 2008) was born Mahesh Prasad Varma and obtained the honorific Maharishi (meaning "Great Seer") and Yogi as an adult. He developed the Transcendental Meditation technique and was the leader and guru of a worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways including as a new religious movement and as non-religious.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became a disciple and assistant of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya (spiritual leader) of Jyotirmath in the Indian Himalayas. The Maharishi credits Brahmananda Saraswati with inspiring his teachings. In 1955, the Maharishi began to introduce his Transcendental Deep Meditation (later renamed Transcendental Meditation) to India and the world. His first global tour began in 1958. His devotees referred to him as His Holiness, and because he often laughed in TV interviews he was sometimes referred to as the "giggling guru".
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Maharishi achieved fame as the guru to the Beatles, The Beach Boys and other celebrities. In the late 1970s, he started the TM-Sidhi programme that claimed to offer practitioners the ability to levitate and to create world peace. The Maharishi's Natural Law Party was founded in 1992, and ran campaigns in dozens of countries. He moved to near Vlodrop, the Netherlands, in the same year. In 2000, he created the Global Country of World Peace, a non-profit organization, and appointed its leaders. In 2008, the Maharishi announced his retirement from all administrative activities and went into silence until his death three weeks later.
Transcendental Meditation (TM) refers to a specific form of mantra meditation called the Transcendental Meditation technique, and less commonly to the organizations that constitute the Transcendental Meditation movement.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918–2008) introduced the TM technique and TM movement in India, in the mid-1950s.
The Maharishi taught thousands of people during a series of world tours from 1958 to 1965, expressing his teachings in spiritual and religious terms. TM became more popular in the 1960s and 1970s, as the Maharishi shifted to a more technical presentation, and his meditation technique was practiced by celebrities. At this time, he began training TM teachers and created specialized organizations to present TM to specific segments of the population such as business people and students. By the late 2000s, TM had been taught to millions of people, and the worldwide TM organization had grown to include educational programs, health products, and related services.
The Transcendental Meditation technique is a specific form of mantra meditation developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It is often referred to as Transcendental Meditation, or simply TM. The meditation practice involves the use of a mantra and is practiced for 15–20 minutes twice per day while sitting with one's eyes closed. It is reported to be one of the most-widely practiced, and among the most widely researched meditation techniques, with over 340 peer-reviewed studies published. Beginning in 1965, the Transcendental Meditation technique has been incorporated into selected schools, universities, corporations, and prison programs in the U.S.A., Latin America, Europe, and India. In 1977 a U.S. district court ruled that a curriculum in TM and the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) being taught in some New Jersey schools was religious in nature and in violation of the First Amendment. The technique has since been included in a number of educational and social programs around the world.
A yogi is a practitioner of yoga. The term "yogi" is used broadly to refer to sannyasi or practitioners of meditation in a number of Indian religions.
Yogi, or Jogi, since the 12th-century CE, while meaning those dedicated to Yoga practice, has also referred to members of the Nath Siddha tradition of Hinduism. Alternatively, a tantrika is also called as yogini in Tantra traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In Hindu mythology, god Shiva and goddess Parvati are depicted as emblematic yogi-yogini pair.
In Classical Sanskrit, the word yogi (Sanskrit: masc yogī, योगी; fem yoginī) is derived from yogin, which refers to a practitioner of yoga. Yogi is technically male, and yoginī is the term used for female practitioners. The two terms are still used with those meanings today, but the word yogi is also used generically to refer to both male and female practitioners of yoga and related meditative practices belonging to any religion or spiritual method.
The term Yogini is also used for divine goddesses and enlightened mothers, all revered as aspects of the Divine Mother Devi.
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Introductory lecture on the Transcendental Meditation that Maharishi gave in Brussels, Belgium on 12th March 1974 (147 min)
http://tm.org Maharishi explains the relationship between Transcendental Meditation and all religions. Video filmed - November 23, 1971 in Mallorca, Spain For more information on the Transcendental Meditation® technique, please visit: www.TM.org or call 1-888-532-7686 - 1-888-LEARN-TM Interviewer: Maharishi, I start with those main attacks which have been brought up against you and your Transcendental Meditation movement. In relation to the plan to establish an academy for Transcendental Meditation above the lake in Seelisberg - the Catholic inner part of Switzerland. One attack I have already mentioned that you are against Christianity and also against the person of Jesus Christ. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: Any TY ending is very close to me with infinity. So my message is that of Infinity...
Harvard Law Forum talk 1970 part 1
17/7/1971 Amherst Massachusetts, USA
We are all thinking all the time - but where do all these thoughts come from? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking at Lake Louise, Canada (1968). http://www.mum.edu LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maharishi-university-of-management FB: https://www.facebook.com/Maharishi.University G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/109521794322081148487/109521794322081148487/posts ZEEF: https://maharishi-university-of-management.zeef.com/maharishi.university TW: @MaharishiU Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mumview/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/muminstagram Maharishi University of Management (MUM) offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the arts, sciences, business, and humanities. The University is accredited through the doctoral level by the Higher Learning Commission....
Recorded Live Los Angeles 1967 1/5
http://www.tm.org Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is asked whether he has divine powers. He says that anyone can reach the divine through Transcendental Meditation. Learning the Transcendental Meditation technique is one of the most enjoyable things youll ever do. The program is taught in a standard seven-step course, which includes public lectures, private instruction, and group seminars. You are also eligible to take advantage of a free lifetime follow-up program. Nothing I ever learned or was ever taught at Harvard approached the completeness of the self-knowledge the Transcendental Meditation program offered. —Paul D. Gandy, Attorney at Law Founder and President, GANDY LAW OFFICES, P.C. People start the Transcendental Meditation technique for a wide variety of reasons. Some may le...
http://www.tm.org Is it Nature's plan for man to suffer? Explained by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Reporter: Throughout history, man has gone through periods of misery and then joy, misery and then joy. And I was wondering whether it was part of Nature's plan that man should be miserable at times? Maharishi: No, it is not the part of Nature; it is the part of our unnatural behavior. Nature has not designed this beautiful, perfect human nervous system to remain in agony. But if we eat something very hard, if we eat sand, and then the stomach will do quite a lot of revolting. And then the whole thing, hrrr. So there are certain things which are meant to be eaten, and other things are not for us to eat. They may be for horses to eat, for other animals to eat, but not for man. So each nervous ...
Introductory lecture on the Transcendental Meditation that Maharishi gave in Brussels, Belgium on 12th March 1974 (147 min)
http://tm.org Maharishi explains the relationship between Transcendental Meditation and all religions. Video filmed - November 23, 1971 in Mallorca, Spain For more information on the Transcendental Meditation® technique, please visit: www.TM.org or call 1-888-532-7686 - 1-888-LEARN-TM Interviewer: Maharishi, I start with those main attacks which have been brought up against you and your Transcendental Meditation movement. In relation to the plan to establish an academy for Transcendental Meditation above the lake in Seelisberg - the Catholic inner part of Switzerland. One attack I have already mentioned that you are against Christianity and also against the person of Jesus Christ. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: Any TY ending is very close to me with infinity. So my message is that of Infinity...
Harvard Law Forum talk 1970 part 1
17/7/1971 Amherst Massachusetts, USA
We are all thinking all the time - but where do all these thoughts come from? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking at Lake Louise, Canada (1968). http://www.mum.edu LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maharishi-university-of-management FB: https://www.facebook.com/Maharishi.University G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/109521794322081148487/109521794322081148487/posts ZEEF: https://maharishi-university-of-management.zeef.com/maharishi.university TW: @MaharishiU Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mumview/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/muminstagram Maharishi University of Management (MUM) offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the arts, sciences, business, and humanities. The University is accredited through the doctoral level by the Higher Learning Commission....
Recorded Live Los Angeles 1967 1/5
http://www.tm.org Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is asked whether he has divine powers. He says that anyone can reach the divine through Transcendental Meditation. Learning the Transcendental Meditation technique is one of the most enjoyable things youll ever do. The program is taught in a standard seven-step course, which includes public lectures, private instruction, and group seminars. You are also eligible to take advantage of a free lifetime follow-up program. Nothing I ever learned or was ever taught at Harvard approached the completeness of the self-knowledge the Transcendental Meditation program offered. —Paul D. Gandy, Attorney at Law Founder and President, GANDY LAW OFFICES, P.C. People start the Transcendental Meditation technique for a wide variety of reasons. Some may le...
http://www.tm.org Is it Nature's plan for man to suffer? Explained by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Reporter: Throughout history, man has gone through periods of misery and then joy, misery and then joy. And I was wondering whether it was part of Nature's plan that man should be miserable at times? Maharishi: No, it is not the part of Nature; it is the part of our unnatural behavior. Nature has not designed this beautiful, perfect human nervous system to remain in agony. But if we eat something very hard, if we eat sand, and then the stomach will do quite a lot of revolting. And then the whole thing, hrrr. So there are certain things which are meant to be eaten, and other things are not for us to eat. They may be for horses to eat, for other animals to eat, but not for man. So each nervous ...
Vivanatura
Interview of David Frost with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and then with John Lennon and George Harrison. 29/9/1967 London
Introductory lecture on the Transcendental Meditation that Maharishi gave in Brussels, Belgium on 12th March 1974 (147 min)