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Maharishi Category : May 1988  The Magic Music Of Maharishi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi called 1987 the "Year of World Peace" and
"the Thirteenth Year of the Age of Enlightenment." To
acknowledge its importance with an appropriate finale, he
initiated the "Festival of Music for World Peace" in November
and December, featuring the melodies of the Gandharva Veda (a
subordinate section of the Atharva Veda). Six groups of seven
accomplished musicians each toured and performed in 108 cities
across the U.S. and Canada while similar concerts were occurring
simultaneously on other continents.  This unique music was
intended to not only create beauty in sound but also establish
"peace on earth" by harmonizing dissonant planetary and human
forces.  "Gandharvas" are "celestial musicians." The Vedas
depict them variously as tall and handsome, small and elfish or
even beast-like. According to Benjamin Walker, author of Hindu
World, these gandharvas are the guardian