Beatles' meditation guru dies

The Maharish Mahesh Yogi, who introduced the Beatles to transcendental meditation in the late 1960s, has passed away at age 91, the BBC reports.

The Maharishi introduced the technique to the US in 1959, but it did not become widely known in the West until 1968, when the Beatles travelled to India to meditate with him, although the band famously later fell out with him.

Despite this, transcendental meditation's 20-minute routine came to be widely used in the worlds of education, business and welfare to reduce stress and improve concentration, eventually building a following of five million people.

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