Ditgital Reading Room
The Public Face of the Archive
With Highlights From Our Collections
Videos • Rare Photos • Early Publications
What is a Reading Room?
The Digital Reading Room is an invitation to explore the living legacy of Maharshi Mahesh Yogi through the lens of today’s technology—our digital database: Searchable Online Maharishi Archives (SOMA).
Here, rare photographs, recordings, manuscripts, correspondence, publications, and historic collections come together in a single, connected environment where each discovery can lead naturally to the next.
Start your journey here.
Whether you're beginning your journey or conducting in-depth research, the Digital Reading Room provides access to a growing collection of preserved materials.
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Galleries | Highlights From the Archive
These galleries are just a taste of what MGAC has to share. We'll be adding much more to these collections over time.
Handwritten Letters from Maharishi
The letter featured here was written from Maharishi in Delphi, Greece to Charlie and Helen Lutes on November 1st, 1963.
Audio & Video Recordings
"The Master Speaks" is a vinyl record that was published in a handful of editions throughout the 1960s. Each album contains the same two tracks, but has different covers and liner notes. Side 1 is a track called "Love", which is Maharishi reading from his book "Love and God", to which a sitar was added after the fact. Side 2 is a lecture of Maharishi's called, "The Untapped Source of Power That Lies Within."
The album Deep Meditation consists of two recordings. Side 1 is the title track, and was recorded at Guild Hall in Cambridge, England, on July 11, 1960. Side 2 is titled "Healing Powers of Deep Meditation", and was recorded on May 2, 1959, in California.
In the early days of the Movement, Maharishi used the terms Deep Meditation and Transcendental Deep Meditation — he settled on Transcendental Meditation at the First Convention of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement in Sequoia National Park in 1959.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1967 BBC Interview
Here's a fun start of videos, pictures, and books...
Early Publications By & About Maharishi
Take a look at Enjoy magazine, published by the Spiritual Regeneration Movement
of Canada, followed by The Vedas—Source of the Subtle Science.
Photo Gallery
Looking for Other Early Publications?
Try searching SOMA for some of our publicly available early publications. If you're unsure where to start, here are some of our favorites titles you can try searching (keep in mind, you don't have to type the complete name - just a couple keywords will go a long way):
(By Maharishi)
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Three Year Plan of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement
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The Divine Plan
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The Vedas: Source of the Subtle Science
(About Maharishi)
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Torch Divine pamphlets (1958–1960)
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Five Year Plan for the Youth of Every Generation
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Spiritual Regeneration Movement Newsletters (1962–1967)