Beatles guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

THE HAGUE (AFP) — The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a one-time spiritual advisor to the Beatles, has died in his Dutch home, his Transcendental Meditation movement announced Wednesday.

"With his life's work complete, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is being welcomed with open arms into heaven," the organisation said in a press release.

He died peacefully around Tuesday evening in his home in the tiny village of Vlodrop in the Netherlands where he had been living since 1990, it added.

Originally from India, the Maharishi started his worldwide movement in 1958. In the 1960s he attracted many followers including the Beatles who went to meditate with him in India in 1968.

Other celebrity visitors to his ashram in Rishikesh included Shirley MacLaine and Mia...

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