Chiu, David; Chiu, David (12. februar 2018). «The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn't Know». Rolling Stone (på engelsk). Besøkt 23. januar 2021. «The group tried to find the answer through the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement. Their association with the guru resulted in a visit to the Maharishi’s ashram in Rishikesh, India, in February 1968, which became a major media event. Not only did the Beatles go to India for a spiritual reawakening through meditation, but the trip proved to be one of their most creative periods – they wrote reportedly 48 songs, with most of them ending up on the White Album, released later that year. The band’s planned three-month stay at the ashram was cut short, however, following sexual misconduct allegations against the Maharishi. “We made a mistake there,” Lennon later said, as quoted in The Beatles Anthology. “We believe in meditation, but not the Maharishi and his scene. … We thought he was something other than he was.”»
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Saltzman, Paul (13. januar 2015). «Mia Farrow». The Beatles in India (på engelsk). Besøkt 23. januar 2021. «Mia would later recount in her autobiographical book ‘What Falls Away’ that one day the Maharishi invited her to meditate with him, alone in his meditation room, in the basement of his bungalow. When they finished, and were standing up in the darkness, he wrapped his “hairy arms” around her in an embrace. Was it sexual or not? At the time, Mia felt it was. She bolted from the room, hurriedly packed her bags, quickly said goodbye to Prudence, and was out the ashram gate and gone. Later, she would say that she felt it hadn’t been sexual. Sexual or not, the whole issue of the Maharishi’s sexuality would later result in John and George leaving the ashram, and the Beatles leaving the Maharishi behind.»
