At Rishikesh, on the banks of the Ganges, there is a special chudakarana or mundana samskara.
In February 1968, John goes to Rishikesh with his wife Cynthia and the other Beatles and their wives (with the exception of Paul, who was accompanied by his then girlfriend Jane Asher) for meditation with the Maharishi there.
Tiwari spent three years at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam in Saylorsburg, PA before relocating to Dayananda Ashram in her motherland of Rishikesh, India where she received her diksha as a sannyasin from her guru.
He was a frequent invitee to the Sivananda Ashram at Rishikesh, where he would lecture on Sankara and other topics, but also, on request, about Jesus and Christianity.
The two main centers are located at Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania and in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, with the sister institution Arsha Vidya Ashram located in Rishikesh and over 60 other centres in India and abroad.
Returning from Ghuttu : Take public transportation or private jeeps to Guptakashi on Kedarnath National Highway 109, which has quite regular traffic going to Rudraprayag, and further down to Srinagar (Uttarakhand), Rishikesh, and Hridwar.
The film is shot on breathtaking locations across North India, including Gomukh, Gangotri, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Chunar, Benares, Paris and Limours.
The Rishikesh Complex of Ruru Kshetra is located in southwestern Nepal in the Palpa District, Lumbini Zone.
During this period, in spring of ’68, when The Beatles visited Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh, he famously sneaked in along with fellow photographer, Raghu Rai and they not only filed new reports, but also took photographs inside.
He worked with notable musicians including his mentor Kalavoor Balan, N.P. Prabhakaran, Alleppey Vivekanandan, Alleppey Rishikesh, Kumarakam Rajappan, Vypin Surendran, K.M.Udayan, T.S.Radhakrishnan, Sebi Nayarambalam, Samji Aarattupuzha, M.G.Anil, Raveendran Thiruvalla, Vidhyadharan master, R.Somasekharan, Jerry Amaldev, Johnson, Raveendran, M.G.Radhakrishnan, Perumbavoor G.Raveendranath, V.Dakshinamoorthy, M.K.Arjunan, and G.Devarajan.
He then spent some years at Tribeni, in Bengal, at a small hermitage on the bank of the Ganges and several years at Haridwar, Rishikesh, and Kurseong.
The rest of The Hurdy Gurdy Man was recorded in April 1968, after he visited Rishikesh, India to study under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; John Lennon, Cynthia Lennon, George Harrison, Pattie Boyd, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, Mia Farrow, Prudence Farrow, and Mike Love were there as well.
The soundtrack of the motion picture features music by Sarah Sharp, The June Junes, Small*Star, Andrea Perry, Craig Marshall, Ter'ell Shahid, Shreya Goshal, Udit Narayan, Madhushree, and Rishikesh Kamkerkar.