from the Mike Love Fan Club message board at
http://pub9.bravenet.com/forum/static/s ... 3&cmd=showStatement from Mike Love on the passing of Maharishi
While in Paris participating in a UNICEF benefit show, the Beach Boys were introduced to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was in December of 1967. Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Alan Jardine and myself along with several family members learned the TM technique from Maharishi himself. Two months later, I made the journey to Rishi Kesh, India, where Donovan and the Beatles also attended a teacher's training course. Alan and I both became teachers of TM a couple years later.
To say that what I have learned from Maharishi has been of great benefit to me is an understatement to be sure. Maharishi has designed a pathway of development of human potential, which includes transcendental mediation, the TM-Sidhi program, Maharishi Ayurveda, Jyotish, and Yagyas -- all derived directly from the Earth's most ancient text, The Vedas.
No less a goal than that of world peace was Maharishi's life's work. For those of us who were fortunate enough to have been in his presence, his passing is profoundly sad. But I for one, am among the millions who are grateful for what he shared with us on this, "The Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment" on the way to the goal which Maharishi called "Heaven on Earth." We will miss you, but your great light will shine on.
Jai Guru Dev, Michael E. Love 
Members of the Beatles with their guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; (left to right) John Lennon, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, the Maharishi, George Harrison, actress Mia Farrow, Donovan, Paul McCartney, and actress Jane Asher, at one time McCartney's fiancé.
