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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi steps down as head of meditation empire
By Emma Thomasson
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who became a guru to the
Beatles, stepped down this month as the head of the organisation that
brought transcendental meditation to the West, an aide said on Monday.
"His work is done and now he'll be concentrating on the field of
silence and dedicating himself more to pure knowledge rather than
administrative matters," Benjamin Feldman, finance minister for the
Global Country of World Peace, told Reuters.
(...)
Reported to be 91, the Maharishi is "fairly well", Feldman said and
plans to stay in the Netherlands for the time being. Maharaja Nader
Raam, a Lebanese doctor who has studied with the Maharishi for 25
years, will take over the organisation.
Feldman said the Maharishi's work would live on because he has
trained tens of thousands of teachers over the years (!).
