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{{The Beatles history|above=[[File:The Beatles at Rishikesh.jpg|150px]]<br>The Beatles in Rishikesh with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi}}

'''[[The Beatles]] were in [[Rishikesh]]''', India, in 1968, to attend an advanced [[Transcendental Meditation]] (TM) training session at the [[ashram]] of [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]]. The trip came six months after The Beatles first met the Maharishi, in August, 1967. Their adoption of him as their guru attracted wide attention and is credited w(contracted; show full)so it was expected to be his last public lecture in the West.<ref name=Goldman>{{cite book |title=The Lives of John Lennon |first=Albert |last=Goldman |publisher=[[Independent Publishers Group|Chicago Review Press]] |year=1988 |isbn=1556523998}}</ref> The Beatles were given front row seats and were invited to meet the Maharishi afterwards.<ref name=Goldman/> During the ninety-minute meeting he invited them to be his guests at an upcoming training retreat.

The next day, the group went to 
thea retreat at the campus of a teaching college in [[Bangor, Gwynedd|Bangor]], Wales, along with [[Mick Jagger]], [[Marianne Faithfull]], [[Cilla Black]] and around 300 others,<ref name=B&G>{{cite book |title=The Love You Make |first1=Peter |last1=Brown |first2=Steven |last2=Gaines |publisher=McGraw-Hill |year=1983 |isbn=}}</ref> where they learnt the basics of trascendental meditation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |newspaper=[[The Times]] |work=The Times |location=London (contracted; show full)
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