German TM Governor Adolf Beck (85) recounts some of his experiences with TM and Maharishi in the early 1960s:
During a four-week meditation course in Hochgurgl (Austria) Maharishi had invited 200 Course Participants to a place high in the mountains - 2.509 metres above sea level. It was a very hot and humid day in July 1962. Dr Ellis and Dr Holms were reading the English translation of a Sanskrit text to Maharishi Ji. It said "If it is true, that this is a Yogi, a very happy man, then the heavens will give a sign." Some CPs were wondering what kind of sign this could have been. Suddenly a stormy wind came up and started to tear at the hair and clothes of the CPs, but strangely no strand of Maharishi's hair, who sat only two to three metres, away, was moving. Then lightning and thunder set in and rain poured down heavily, however the little hill where those 200 and Maharishi were sitting remained dry and untouched by the elements. And just high above, one could (see) a piece of the blue sky through a small round hole in the clouds. For half an hour everyone stayed seated fearlessly and listened to the words of Maharishi - "a kind of Sermon on the Mount" - until the Master gave signal to leave. And as soon as Maharishi had entered the car of Mr Nyburg, heavy rain came down. All the slopes of the area were completely flooded. One hour later a bright alpenglow enchanted the landscape. "For me," Adolf Beck writes, "no doubt remained that Maharishi was indeed a great Yogi, a very happy man."
