Origin of Transcendental Meditation

Transcendental Meditation or Bhavatit Dhyan in Hindi is a Vedic technique. It has its origins in the Vedas. Hence, this meditation technique is as old as Time or Humanity itself.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi started teaching this technique in India and outside India in the 1950s. And he founded the worldwide Transcendental Meditation Movement.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, teaching in the 1970s

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi originally learnt this technique from his guru Swami Brahmanand Saraswati, who was the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math monastery in the Himalayas.

Swami Brahmanand Saraswati, who was Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math in the Himalayas from 1941 until his Maha Samadhi in 1953

You can read more about his life on Wikipedia, here.

And you can read more about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Wikipedia, here.

This is the holy tradition or Guru-Shishya parampara of Transcendental Meditation, starting with Narayana to Brahma....to Adi Shankarya.....to Swami Brahmanand Saraswati to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi talking about Transcendental Mediation and its benefits at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968.

GuruDev - Swami Brahmanand Saraswati giving a talk when he was the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math monastery in the Himalayas

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