http://paulmason.info/gurudev/gurudev.htm 'The Teachings of Guru Dev - The Roots of TM' Quotations of Shankaracharya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati Compiled by Paul Mason # Reference 22 M M Y - 'From the age of nine until the age of seventy-one, when he became Shankaracharya, life was mostly in deep silence, seclusion. It's very, it's very interesting. If I was not caught up in this whirlpool I would have been writing life account of Guru Dev and would have been exposing the whole wisdom of the Vedas in that one narration of his life.' 22 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi made the statement on 8th July 1971 in Amherst, U.S.A.