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It was in 1985, two years after a trip to Rishikesh, that I got an opportunity to meet Maharishi. When my chance came I grew unexpectedly shy. A young psychologist at Harvard, who was doing a study on the benefits of Transcendental Meditation for older people, told me about Maharishi’s visit to America for a…

Even though I last sat with Maharishi more than ten years ago, he left an indelible impression, as he did on everyone. His extraordinary qualities are known to the world. Without him, it’s fair to say, the West would not have learned to meditate. During the Cold War era a reporter once challenged him by…

One of the more interesting parts of “growing up Chopra,” was the range of people my sister and I were exposed to–from celebrities to heads of state to Nobel laureates and all the rest. As a teenager growing up in Boston, the emotional response to these experiences ranged from titillation (Madonna) to indifference (Elizabeth Taylor),…

I learned transcendental meditation when I was 9. I think I met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for the first time when I was 13, and for the next decade he was a major influence in my life. I remember sitting for endless hours with Maharishi – sometimes crowds of thousands of people, others times just with…
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