Skeptics question whether SCI is actually scientific According to proponents, practicing the TM technique can lead to higher levels of consciousness and supernormal effects, including the Maharishi Effect.

According to some reports, Lennon left Rishikesh because he felt personally betrayed by rumours that Maharishi had made sexual advances toward Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, who had accompanied The Beatles on their trip.

According to J. Lynwood King, in his dissertation Fundamentals of Maharishi Vedic Science, the feedback Brahmachari Mahesh received from the diverse population that learned his technique suggested to him that it could be of wide benefit.

According to Chopra, the Maharishi accused him, in July 1993, of trying to compete for the position of guru and asked him to stop travelling and writing books, which led to Chopra's decision to leave the movement in January 1994.

According to Mozambique's President Chissano, the result of inviting the Maharishi to Maputo in 1992 was balance and peace.

According to spokesman Bob Roth, " The Maharishi has said the party has to grow to encompass everyone ".

According to Kenneth Pelletier, " Insofar as Ayurveda constitutes an integrated orientation to healthy physical, mental, and spiritual practices, as it does in the Maharishi Ayur-Ved system, it would seem to be conducive to good health and spiritual well-being.

According to the Maharishi Open University web site archive, there are Maharishi Ayurveda spas and health centers around the world, including two in the United States, three in Germany, two in Switzerland and one in Yugoslovia.

According Maharishi Jyotish, the solar system has an influence on the human brain, cells and DNA.

According to his own account, Chopra was accused by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of attempting to compete with the Maharishi's position as guru.

According to Maharishi Global Financing, agreements were made in 2004 with a farmers ' association in South America and with traditional leaders in Africa to start using the Raam for agricultural development projects.

According to science writer Sharon Begley of Newsweek magazine, Maharishi and, by extension, the researchers affiliated with Maharishi University of Management helped launch the field of mind-body medicine.

According to Marcy Braverman, in her book Transcendental Meditation, Contemporary American Religion, the Maharishi had no legal ties to the WPEC.

According to Anand Shrivastava, he is the " chairmen and managing director of the Maharishi Group of Companies ". According to Deepak Chopra " the Indian TM organization " is " centered around the Maharishi's nephews, Prakash and Anand Shrivastava ".

According to the Dun and Bradstreet website companies that are " related or similar " to Maharishi Ltd include Ayurveda Ltd., M S V Homes Ltd., Ideal Community & Sport Developments Ltd.

According to the movement's Global Good News website, there are 23 Maharishi Vedic Health Centres in 15 countries, including Austria, France, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States.

According to Saraswati's disciple, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Saraswati's " devotees felt that the expression ' His Holiness ' did not adequately describe this personified Divine Effulgence ; and so the new expression ' His Divinity ' was used.

According to Brewers Dictionaary, outside of India, the most well known Maharishi was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who founded Transcendental Meditation and made it available to the West.

According to Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, an early outtake of " Sexy Sadie " features Lennon demonstrating the song's original working lyrics to the rest of the band: " Maharishi, you little twat / Who the fuck do you think you are ?/ Who the fuck do you think you are ?/ Oh, you cunt.

According to puranic legend Dabas are the descendants of Maharishi Dadhichi the great king of Sindh in Vedic period.

According to a controversial tradition reported by several medieval sources, Narses, out of spite for having been removed by Justinian's successor Justin II, called the Lombards to Italy.

According to Sunni beliefs, Muhammad gave no specific directions as to the choosing of his successor when he died.

According to Gay, Herbert had relatively few followers, and it was not until the 1680s that Herbert found a true successor in Charles Blount ( 1654 – 1693 ).

According to Cassius Dio, the conspirators approached Nerva as a potential successor prior to the assassination, suggesting that he was at least aware of the plot.

According to the Kojiki ( 712 ) and Nihon Shoki ( 720 ), Buretsu died without a successor, at which time a fifth generation grandson of Emperor Ōjin, Keitai, came and ascended the throne.

According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

According to some historians, he was the leader of the army who won the great Battle of Naissus, while the majority believes that the victory must be attributed to his successor Claudius II.

According to Galen, a later physician, Polybus was Hippocrates ' true successor, while Thessalus and Draco each had a son named Hippocrates.

According to John Major's autobiography, the first thing Redwood's successor William Hague said, on being appointed, was that he had better find someone to teach him the words.

According to the Christian historian Sozomen, Libanius was supposed to have said on his deathbed that John would have been his successor " if the Christians had not taken him from us ".

According to the framework of the Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, it was not possible to appoint a successor, and the legislative body " possessing the exclusive right to legislate on matters not explicitly revealed " was not yet established in the world.

According to John Julius Norwich, the traditional first doge of Venice, Paolo Lucio Anafesto, was actually Exarch Paul, and his successor, Marcello Tegalliano, Paul's magister militum ( General ; literally, " Master of Soldiers.

According to one version of a popular legend, an astrologer had advised King Ralambo ( 1575CE-1610CE ) to choose his successor by selecting a time when his sons were away from the capital to feign sickness and urge their return ; his kingdom would be given to the first son who returned home to him.

According to the Hebrew Bible, there were three deportations of Jews to Babylon: the exile of King Jeconiah, his court and many others in Nebuchadnezzar's eighth year ; Jeconiah's successor Zedekiah and the rest of the people in Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year ; and a later deportation in Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year.

" According to singer Tony Bennett who sang with it while in the service, the 314 was the immediate successor to the Glenn Miller led AAF orchestra.

According to Plutarch, during a conversation after dinner, when the conversation turned to generals, someone asked Scipio Aemilianus where the Roman people would find a worthy successor to him.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ine's successor, Aethelheard, fought that year with an ealdorman named Oswald, whom the Chronicle provides with a genealogy showing descent from Ceawlin, an early king of Wessex.

According to Manetho, the first royal palace was founded by Hor-Aha, the successor of Narmer, the founder of the 1st dynasty.

According to tradition, the community was established by Saint Dubricius at a ford on the River Taff and the first church was founded by Dubricius ' successor, Saint Teilo.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg died in 912 and his successor, Igor of Kiev, ruled from then until his assassination in 945.

According to tradition, Wijaya's son and successor, Jayanegara was notorious for immorality.

" According to Grove's successor at Intel, Craig Barrett, " It's give and take, and anyone in the company can yell at him.

According to the Chronicle of Alfonso III, credited to Ramiro's grandson, the childless Alfonso II chose as his successor Ramiro, his distant kinsman and son of Alfonso's predecessor Bermudo I.

According to Article 57 the Crown of Spain is inherited by the successors of King Juan Carlos I de Borbón through male preference primogeniture Article 57 is also significant in that it omits entirely the Franconist era designation of Juan Carlos as Franco's successor.

According to Shi ' a doctrine, this was a clear violation of the treaty he made with Hasan ibn Ali, in which Muawiyah said he would not make his son his successor.