His father was the Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, the Hindu reformer and mystic and his mother was Sharada Devi. 其父马哈希.戴宾德纳特·泰戈尔是印度一个宗教领袖、改革家和神秘主义者，其母名叫夏拉.德维。
Maharishi is an anglicized spelling of the Sanskrit word Maharṣi महर्षि (formed from the prefix mahā- meaning "great" and r̥ṣi meaning "seer"). Maharishi is often used as an addition to a person's name as an honorary title. The term was first seen in modern English literature in the 18th century.