Wasn't the guy who popularized it. He was definitely arrested for rape charges, I believe.

Quote, disciples of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Beatles giggling guru who highlighted Transcendental Meditation in the 1960s, want to found a sovereign nation in South America. They've offered the government of Suriname $1.3 billion over three years to lease 3,500 acres for a rural utopia 20 miles northeast of the capital, Paramaribo.