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It was 1968 and the Beatles were bigger than Britney. The hype around them was unprecedented, raging and so out of control that the band decided to go to India and enter an ashram – the Yogi Maharashi Mahesh’s ashram in Risikesh. They spent some time here, engaging in spiritual discourse and whatever they did in ashrams back then (probably nothing very different from what they do today). This site has some excellent photos – worth checking out if you’re interested in the Beatles.
Ringo and his wife hated the food, so they left early. Paul packed in a month later. John would leave in a huff after three months, and went on to write an angry song about the Yogi. The ashram went belly-up in 1993, and its ruins are the home of various monkeys, hash-dealing sadhus and the occasional cow.
We’d like to say that we felt the wings of history flapping around us at our visit, but we were too busy avoiding stepping in cow dung to notice.
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