Your obituary of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi hints a few times too often that he was after money and nothing but money (February 16, 2008). You even call him a tycoon in the subtitle. But it is clear from everything you dish out that the money he was after actually went into spreading the word of world peace. It was needed to cover the expenses of teaching the teachers, publishing, building and upkeep of ashrams, and the like. In this regard he was very like Paramahansa Yogananda before him or Yogi Bhajan, among others, after him. For yogi economics is not about the posh life of the yogi or yogini at the center of a movement, who invariably need next to nothing in their daily lives; rather, it is about spreading the word. And it is invariably the word of world peace. Hardly a bad way to spend money in a world forever rent by war, you must admit.