Just a registered non profit organisation by the followers of a cult group founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi( incidentally, all these titles of Maharishi are self labelled)- who himself took money from many high profile top bureaucrats and professionals in the early 70s itself. His only contribution to humanity was bringing to public domain TM - I too was crazily interested in TM in 80s during my college days.
The tall claims of these cults are dubious, the very fact they want these cults to be endorsed by scientists, artists, film stars, sports persons shows they are desperately trying to market themselves through endorsement rather than their own inherent strength.
This, of course, is the inevitable choice left to cults who want to gain space within or among religions or their believers. This is a very interesting topic and big subject by itself which studies and exposes a lot of socio-psychological manipulations and brainwashing that goes in their name.
Please note I am not saying that they are right or wrong , great or good, bad or to be banned. But their value addition to human life and humane life style is minimal.
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