who is the maharishi mahesh yogi?

Answer 1

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born Mahesh Srivastava in 1917) is the founder of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) Movement. He brought Transcendental Meditation to the western world. Maharishi is believed to have been born near Jabalpur, India and graduated from Allahabad University with a degree in physics. He was a disciple and secretary to Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath, for thirteen years. In 1955, after spending two years in silence in UttarKashi, in the Himalayan foothills, he began teaching a basic meditation technique later renamed Transcendental Meditation. He set up an Ashram (Hermitage) called Shankaracharaya Nagar in Rishikesh, Northern India on the bank of the river Ganges. In 1957 he founded The Spiritual Regeneration Movement, the first of several organizations collectively known as the TM Movement, and began the first of many tours to teach the Transcendental Meditation technique around the world.

Answer 2

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