In 1968, George Harrison, John Lennon, and their spouses went to India to learn transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
The English rock band the Beatles travelled to Rishikesh in northern India in February 1968 to participate in a Transcendental Meditation (TM) training course at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram. The visit came after the group's condemnation of narcotics in favour of TM, and it drew enormous media attention.
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