Subject: [world-vedic] McCartney:Maharishi Innocent of Sexy Sadie Jacket
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 05:22:17 -0000
From: Vrin Parker
Reply-To: vediculture@yahoogroups.com
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Many people have heard that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi let the Beatles down 
by flirting with Mia Farrow. These accusations led to both John Lennon 
and George Harrison to dismiss the Maharishi as a Cheater. It was at 
this point that John Lennon wrote the song "Sexy Sadie." According to 
George Harrison, John originally called the song,"Maharishi, Maharishi 
What Have You Done." But George convinced John to change the title to 
"Sexy Sadie, what have you done." Though both Beatles left 
disappointed, it now turns out that Maharishi was innocent of the 
charge.Thank God for George's foresight.

In Paul McCartney's biography, called "Paul McCartney: Many Years from 
Now" Paul says that a Greek character named Alex Mardas was accepted 
as by John as "The Beatles' Guru." But after the Beatles met 
Maharishi, Alex's guruship was threatened. When the Beatles went with 
Maharishi to India, Alex, burning with envy went there and began 
instigating to separate Maharishi from the Beatles. It was Alex's 
accusations and conspiratorial activities that turned the Beatles 
against the Maharishi. Alex was later exposed as a fraud. In Paul's 
own words, "It turned out that Alex had a subscription to Scientific 
American and we didn't, so he was able to wow us with common 
knowledge."

His scam was exposed when the studio he built for the Beatles didn't 
work and they were forced to rebuild it from scratch. It is also 
interesting to note that Alex claimed to be closely connected to Greek 
Intelligence Agencies, a step away from the CIA.

So after all these years, it is high time that these false accusations 
are exposed. According to Paul McCartney (who never was nor is a 
follower) Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was innocent and was set up by an 
envious false guru named Alex.

For all the Hare Krishna devotees, I want to add that I met a very 
nice Prabhupad disciple who used to be one of Maharishi's chief 
followers. He went to Maharishi and told him he just wasn't satisfied 
with TM.

Maharishi laughed and said: "Go to Bhaktivedanta Swami. He will show 
you the way, through the path of Bhakti." (Not an exact quote.) So 
lets stop our internal Vedic criticisms and appreciate each other's 
positions within the culture. Out of His Love, Krishna provides the 
perfect connection to everyone, according to their ability and 
interests. As a child in Iskcon Gurukul I was taught to belittle and 
criticise everyone who wasn't a member of Iskcon. However by the Grace 
of Krishna and Prabhupada, I have seen the light. Halelujah. Hare 
Krishna.