Transcendental Meditation
(Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was born in India around 1910. After graduating from
Allahabad University with a degree in physics, he began pursuing a higher
purpose in life, becoming a disciple of Guru Dev for thirteen years. Maharishi
first taught TM in India and then, at Guru Dev's urging, he brought this
system of thought to the West in 1959. Promoted as the Science of Creative
Intelligence, TM offers its practitioners a means of achieving peace, harmony,
inner joy, creativity and enlightenment primarily through meditation and the
chanting of various Sanskrit mantras. Adherents claim these are designed to lift
a person to higher levels of consciousness. TM has been one of the more popular
movements out of India and has numerous centers around the world.
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