THE body of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Beatles' 91-year-old guru celebrated for bringing meditation to the West, was being cremated today.

By Rajiv Mani Tony Nader ALLAHABAD: With a clear message that the show will go on at the Transcendental Meditation organisation, the disciples of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Sunday formally 'crowned' Tony Nader of Lebanon as his successor. Nader will now be called Maharajadhiraj Raja Ram.

A file photo of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the renowned spiritual guru, who introduced the concept of transcendental meditation to the West, attained maha-samadhi on February 5, 2008.

By Gautam Siddharth A file photo of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with actor Mia Farrow at JFK airport in New York in 1968 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had touched the lives of the common people and taken it a notch closer to satisfying their craving - a genuine hunger for a mystical experience.

By Lily Koppel Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who introduced transcendental meditation to the West and gained fame in the 1960s as the spiritual guru to the Beatles, died Tuesday at his home and headquarters in Vlodrop, the Netherlands. He is believed to have been in his 90s.