but they were in India supposed to be meditating and they couldn't keep themselves from writing songs.
I wouldn't get too hung up on the idea of The Beatles going to India and being all holy. Deepak Chopra, one of the maharishi's spiritual chaps, says they were doing plenty of drugs, including LSD, while at the ashram. I'd be quite confident in saying celibacy wasn't that high on the list either, so the thought of them carrying on songwriting isn't so strange. And seeing that it was the first time in a while that they had spent so much time together it doesn't appear out of place. Also, after Revolver no doubt none of them were too sure what to do next, so it's not suprising that their productivity took a tempory dive |