Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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. He started the TM-Sidhi programme, in the late 1970s 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.The Maharishi is reported to have trained more than 40,000 TM teachers, taught the Transcendental Meditation technique to "more than five million people" and founded thousands of teaching centers and hundreds of colleges, universities and schools, while TM websites report tens of thousands learned the TM-Sidhi programme. His initiatives include schools and universities with campuses in several countries including India, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. The Maharishi, his family and close associates created charitable organisations and for-profit businesses including health clinics, mail-order health supplements and organic farms. The reported value of the Maharishi's organization has ranged from the millions to billions of U.S. dollars and in 2008, the organization placed the value of their United States assets at about $300 million.
Founded the Maharishi University of Management (M.U.M.), formerly known as Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa. Established in 1971, the university is fully accredited through the Ph.D. level.
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Died on the same day that NASA beamed the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" into space. The song, written by John Lennon while studying with the Maharishi in India in 1968, contains the lyrics "jai guru deva" which is the traditional greeting of the Maharishi's organization.
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The Beach Boys singer Mike Love studied with the Maharishi in India at the same time as The Beatles, Donovan, and actress Mia Farrow, and continued to promote him through the 1980s. Another supporter was magician Doug Henning, who campaigned to open a theme park called Vedaland, dedicated to the Maharishi's teachings.
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Early in their time together, The Beatles considered making a documentary film about the Maharishi and his career; he startled the band by knowing more than they did about budgeting and distribution. (They'd thought of him as a humble, unworldly kind of bearded prophet, not the savvy businessman he turned out to be).
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Beatles manager Brian Epstein died while The Beatles were on a weekend retreat with the Maharishi in Wales; he tried to console the band, telling them happy thoughts would help Brian's spirit (and their own) the most.
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Began his career as a physicist; became interested in mantras through the physical energy produced through the sound vibrations of spoken syllables.
$1.5 Million
