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'''[[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 with changing attitudes in the West about Indian spirituality. 

They arrived together at the ashram in February 1968, along with wives, girlfriends, and assistants [[Neil Aspinall]] and [[Mal Evans]], and followed by reporters. [[Ringo Starr]] left after only a short stay, but [[Paul McCartney]] stayed for several weeks. [[John Lennon]] and [[George Harrison]] left abruptly in April, after rumours of inappropriate behaviour by the Maharishi. While there, the musicians wrote many songs which were later recorded on ''[[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'' (''White Album''), ''[[Abbey Road]]'' and ''[[Let It Be]]''.

==Background==
[[File:MahareshiYogi2.jpg|thumb|upright|left|alt=A 1973 photograph of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a middle-aged man of Indian heritage with long black hair and a partly grey beard, wearing a white robe and gesticulating.|link=Maharishi Mahesh Yogi|[[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]], in 1973]]
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