Rya meyers biography of mahatma

Mahatma Gandhi Tidings Digest, Deutschland : Egress for Sep 11 – 17, 2006

Mahatma Gandhi: A century friendly peaceful protest
The Independant – UK – September 16, 2006

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Chapter One

The wind that washed off the Deccan Plateau ripped into Bangalore’s early-morning streets like the tide. It pinched the last bit of sleep from me as I piloted my motorbike through the city’s wide streets. Something about this hour, where night meets day, chilled me more than the cold. It was the one time when those who had stayed up all night crossed paths with the early risers. And I couldn’t always tell the two apart.

The man staggering along the side of the road in this quiet section of the city might have been a construction worker off to his day’s labor, still drunk with sleep, or maybe just a soused straggler from the last of the all-night toddy dens and hundred-rupee brothels, looking for a place to sleep off his excesses.

The rail-thin, shirtless Tamil wearing nothing but a dhoti and a headscarf was possibly a holy man, or perhaps he concealed a knife in his garment, planning to liberate the construction worker from yesterday’s wages.

The speeding white Maruti Suzuki that dared me to cross in front of its path as we met at the junction quite likely conveyed a young woman back from an all-night shift at one of the call centers, where she solved technical issues for irate customers in North America. Ninety-nine out of one hundred times, the driver would d

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Indian guru (191?–2008)

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born Mahesh Prasad Varma, 12 January 191?^{[Note 1]} – 5 February 2008) was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and leader of the worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways, including as a new religious movement and as non-religious.^[7][8] He became known as Maharishi (meaning "great seer")^[1][9] and Yogi as an adult.^[10][11]

After earning a degree in physics at Allahabad University in 1942, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became an assistant and disciple of SwamiBrahmananda Saraswati (also known as Guru Dev), the Shankaracharya (spiritual leader) of the Jyotir Math 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.^[12] His devotees referred to him as His Holiness,^[13] and because he laughed frequently in early TV interviews, he was sometimes referred to as the "giggling guru."^[14][15][16]

The Maharishi trained more than 40,000 TM