In the early 1970s, transcendental meditation was a newly modified transitional form of yoga meditation that was exported to the West by its Indian originator Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. As Benson explains, the Maharishi removed many of what he considered to be nonessential elements of Yoga and created a version that he believed could ____

a. induce altered states more quickly
b. attract more followers
c. be more easily understood by Westerners
d. shorten the path to enlightenment

C

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What will be an ideal response?

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