Complex sentence: Mardas: "John Lennon and I went to the Maharishi about what had happened... he asked the Maharishi to explain himself", with the Maharishi answering the accusation by saying, "I am only human".
Split into simpler sentences: Mardas: "John Lennon and I went to the Maharishi about what had happened... he asked the Maharishi to explain himself". According to Mardas, the Maharishi answered the accusations by saying, "I am only human".