Early Life
After spending several years in various minor employments, he established a textile concern that grew to employ over 2,000 workers on a profit-sharing basis. Maharishi regularly participated in intense meditation and introspection, which he claims brought him full enlightenment at the age of thirty five. At the age of fifty, he closed his commercial ventures and devoted himself solely to spiritual service. However, he remained a “householder”, i.e. he did not break his family ties or take vows of renunciation, but rather lived in the indigenous Siddha tradition, maintaining family ties. At the age of 72, he adopted an American national, Ms. Keith Fitzcharles {later renamed as Arulnidhi Uma Vethathiri} as his legal heir, filing a suit in Coimbatore Sessions Court in 1983, to take care of him & the Organisation .
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