The Dreamland Rishikesh - (Beatles' special)

Just south of Swarg Ashram, slowly being consumed by the forest undergrowth, is what’s left of the original Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ashram. It was abandoned in 1997 and is now back under the control of the forest department. However, the shells of many buildings, meditation cells and lecture halls can still be seen, including Maharishi’s own house and the guesthouse where the Beatles stayed and apparently wrote much of the White Album.

The once-striking art installation called The Beatles Cathedral Gallery has become a graffiti free-for-all, but it's still worth seeing.

The place that left us speechless!

we the riders one day roamed around to find maharshi mahesh yogi's ashram in rajaji nationl park in rishikesh. 8 people on 4 two wheeler, with the help of GPS it hardly took 20 to 25 minutes to locate the ashram. But what we found was the closed gates. with the curiocity to know the inside story we walked through the woods only to find the amazing chorasi kutiya ashram where people used to meditate. awesome peaceful surrounding with the golden history and unfortunately a little maintained but to our surprise the same has been reopened for public interest! of course with the entrance fees..

What we found there was the too old 84 iglu shaped rooms for meditation. rooms for the ashramites..those too demolished.. the hall where yogiji might have addressed and beatles must have performed, in the worst condition. And beautiful paintings on the walls of the rooms by the beatle music lovers.still standing in the solacity the ashram is such a calm and cool place to visit and leave without harming. To add to our memory our vehicles were punchured in the jungle by some of the mischievious visitors which inturn with our lucky fate added a more beautiful experience of long walk through empty road purely dedicating ourselves to the nature one must take out the time to pay the tribute to the history of the ashram which has put the Rishikesh on the map of the world..

I read it somewhere that one of the artist of the band who came to the rishikesh thought of the river rafting there and thats how it started! And its The hub for the non-indians with the craze of yoga and spirituality and divinity.

As i personally feel and almost all the friends who shared those beautiful memory

of beatles ashram, it still calls us..and i feel to run there.. rishikesh ! yes.. i now believe it must be the place where god used to live upon.