From Incarceration to Meditation in Missouri

For 14 years, guru has run alternative program for parolees

It was a routine business conference for the judge: Agendas. Handshakes. Business cards.

But then something kind of mystical happened.

David Mason was approached by a man wearing a crisp suit with a neatly pointed kerchief in his breast pocket. In a measured Indian accent, the man said he, too, was a lawyer and knew all about the judge and his enlightened views on criminal rehabilitation. He wanted to tell him about the power of meditation in prisons.

The man was Farrokh Anklesaria. He was a direct student of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and he'd been sent around the world by him to bring meditation to convicts. He'd been to Switzerland, Senegal, Kenya, Brazil and Sri Lanka. And by a mixture of circumstances -- and perhaps karma -- he had landed in Missouri. (More)

Source: Washington Post