The Beatles’ 1968 Rishikesh Visit to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Date of account
- February–April 1968
- Location
- Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr visited Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram at Rishikesh in 1968, alongside other students and public figures. The episode is useful for examining how mantra meditation, renunciation, celebrity culture, and Western esoteric seeking intersected in postcolonial India. It is documented through press coverage, memoirs, photographs, and later interviews, but accounts differ about the group’s departure and about the significance participants assigned to the retreat. Researchers should distinguish contemporary reporting from retrospective mythmaking.
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