 According to Cynthia Lennon , when the group walked past the Maharishi on the way to their taxis he looked " very biblical and isolated in his faith " . The Maharishi reportedly said , " Wait , talk to me " . After leaving the ashram , the taxis kept breaking down , leading the Beatles to wonder if the Maharishi had placed a curse on them . The car that the Lennons were in suffered a flat tyre and the driver left them , apparently to find a replacement tyre , but did not return for hours . After it grew dark the Lennons hitchhiked a ride to Delhi and took the first available flight back to London , during which John drunkenly recounted a litany of his numerous infidelities to Cynthia . The Harrisons were not ready to go home , so they travelled to other Indian cities and spent time with Ravi Shankar . Harrison said when he got dysentery he thought it might have been due to a spell cast by the Maharishi , but he recovered after Shankar gave him some amulets . Harrison later said he had never intended to stay for the second half of the course in Kashmir and that he thought Lennon wanted to get back to his relationship with Ono . 
