Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 | 5:40 p.m.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, often known simply as "Maharishi," achieved world renown as the Indian guru who inspired the Beatles and was said to have persuaded them to give up drugs. He died yesterday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, and is believed to have been around 90.
In the summer of 1967, the year of Flower Power and "Sergeant Pepper," he made headlines when the four Beatles, with their wives and girlfriends, as well as Mick Jagger, Jane Asher and Marianne Faithfull, followed the whiskered Swami from London to Bangor in Wales to sit very publicly at his feet imbibing his message of universal love and peace. The Beatles announced that they had decided to abandon LSD: "We think we're finding new ways of getting there."
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