This text intends to highlight some aspects of how Donovan’s music during his heyday in the 1960s, was influenced through his meeting and subsequent stay with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, India. By analyzing the song "Hurdy Gurdy Man", I attempt to exemplify how Maharishi's teachings and philosophy were integrated into a song that was composed during Donovan's stay with him. The challenging of established society comes towards the end of the decade, according to some scholars to expression in a critique of materialism, but with a clear message of love. In Donovan's music in general and "Hurdy Gurdy Man" in particular, this challenge is expressed in allegoric references to both Indian philosophy and apocalyptic conceptions of the age. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is in this context perceived as the one who can fulfill the expectations that characterize the counterculture in the 1960s and its criticism of established Western society. Donovan makes a reference to himself as the Hurdy Gurdy Man, singing the song at an appearance before Maharishi. Is it Donovan’s ambition to emphasize the role he assumed as a mediator of the message of peace and love, both as a Celtic bard and as Maharishi’s bard? I meen it would certainly seem so. I believe that through the analysis of this text and Donovan’s approach, one may gain an insight into both the spiritual messages of the 1960s and what specifically happened in the British pop culture during the latter part of the decade. I argue that the song "Hurdy Gurdy Man", in particular, is a typical representative of the zeitgeist of society with its expectations of a better world and world peace, and that in the 1960s for quite a few of the younger generation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the one who corresponded to those aspirations.