In celebration of a great life! - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the Art of Living, who spent many of his formative years with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, has described Maharishi as a "great soul" whose contribution to the world would be remembered forever.

"Maharishi was truly great. He was highly skilled in managing world affairs and was equally dispassionate at the same time," Sri Sri said, recalling the time he spent with Maharishi in his early days. "Maharshi laid the foundation for a new world based on the knowledge of the Vedas and spirituality. There was none like him and none shall ever be again. He remains unparalleled".

Here is a beautiful picture of his passing.

True yogis die in a way that is "conscious dying" - fully awake and leaving the body. Deep meditation (samadhi) merging with the greater universe in meditation (mahasamadhi). Note the complete innocence in the picture. A beautiful lesson of completely "letting go".

My years knowing and working for Maharishi were completely transformative. He was responsible for my study and immersion into Indian classical music (ancient Gandharva-Veda knowledge), and years of good health and vitality, clarity, enthusiasm and a deeper understanding into life. Without writing a long story here, it is sufficient to remember the huge impact he had on other renown musicians around the world - Donovan, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, Andre Previn, Leonard Bernstein, to name a few, besides the incredible fact of inspiring over 6 million people around the globe to learn to meditate -- and the effect this has had on the collective consciousness of humanity. (google: "Maharishi Effect")

With love and light,

written by Carl