Originally published in BRANCHES Magazine Twelve summers ago I studied pulse diagnosis with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his ashram outside New Delhi. Every night students gathered in his garden under the stars to meditate and absorb the wisdom of Vedic knowledge. Maharishi was joined by Balraj Maharishi, an expert on Ayur-Vedic herbs, and Brihaspati Dev Triguna, an expert on pulse diagnosis and herbal preparations. All of the course participants soon discovered that taking a tin