 Mia Farrow , who had come and gone from the ashram before , left again and drifted around India before returning to the United States . Geoffrey Giuliano in Revolver : The Secret History of the Beatles says that , before leaving , she told the Beatles that the Maharishi had made a pass at her . Ned Wynn , one of Farrow 's childhood friends , wrote in his 1990 memoir that she had told him in the early 1970s that the Maharishi had definitely made sexual passes at her . In her 1993 autobiography , Cooke de Herrera wrote that Farrow had confided to her , before the arrival of the Beatles , that the Maharishi had made a pass during a private puja ceremony by stroking her hair . Cooke de Herrera wrote that she told Farrow that she had misinterpreted the Maharishi 's actions . Farrow 's 1997 memoirs are ambiguous , describing an encounter with the Maharishi in his private meditation " cave " when he tried to put his arms around her . She reports that her sister Prudence told her that it was " an honour " and " a tradition " for a " holy man " to touch someone after meditation . 
