Mahareshi Mahesh Yogi, Rishikesh has been a mecca for westerners on the spritual path. I was fascinated to visit the ashram in which they had stayed knowing that they had written many of the songs on the White Album while there and had seen film footage of the trip. When I arrived, I was told the ashram had been closed by the Indian government years ago, due to tax reasons but I could pay a guard who was stationed there 10 rupees to get it. I spoke with some locals and made my way down the banks of the river to try and find the ashram, with sadhus pointing me in the right direction, I found it, dodged the monkeys guarding the outside, payed the guard and got inside. It was a beautiful day and I had the entire place to myself. It was completley overgrown with shrubbery and had a very mystical quality about it. Small transcendental meditation domes were abound everywhere and I managed to find the two large ones on top of the main building where John Lennon wrote "Across the Universe". Check it out...