Harbhajan Singh Khalsa was born on August 26, 1929 into a Sikh family in Kot Harkarn, Gujranwala district in the province of Punjab (now in Pakistan). His father, Dr. Kartar Singh Puri, served the British Raj as a medical doctor. His mother was named Harkrishan Kaur. His father was raised in the Sikh tradition and young Harbhajan was educated in a Catholic school run by nuns. Singh learned the fundamentals of Sikhism from his paternal grandfather, Sant Bhai Fateh Singh. Theirs was a well-to-do landlord family, owning most of their village in the foothills of the Himalayas.[7]

In 1953, Singh entered the service of the Government of India. He served in the Revenue Department, where his duties took him all over India. Eventually, Harbhajan Singh was promoted to a customs inspector at Delhi airport.[10]


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In 1968, Singh emigrated to Toronto, Canada equipped with an endorsement from that country's High Commissioner to India, James George, who was also a student of his.[12] Harbhajan Singh made a considerable impact in the predominantly Anglo-Saxon metropolis. In three months, he established classes at several YMCAs, co-founded a yoga centre, was interviewed for national press and television, and helped set in motion the creation of eastern Canada's first Sikh temple in time for Guru Nanak's five hundredth birthday the following year.[13][14]

In 2019, Yogi Bhajan's former secretary Pamela Saharah Dyson published the book Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage: My Life with Yogi Bhajan, reporting that she and other women had sexual relationships with Harbhajan Singh.[23]

In March 2020, anti-cult activist Be Scofield published an article in her magazine The Guru reporting sexual abuse and rape of female followers and assistants including Dyson by Harbhajan Singh, based on "over a dozen original interviews".[24]

Harbhajan Singh died of complications of heart failure at his home in Espaola, New Mexico, on October 6, 2004, aged 75. He was survived by his wife, sons, daughter and five grandchildren.[34] Obituaries appeared in The Los Angeles Times,[35] the Times of India,[36] The New York Times,[34] and Yoga Journal.[37] Khalsa's passing was noted by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, which closed its offices to commemorate his death.[38]

In 1977, Time published a critical article, titled "Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism". The article alleged that Gurucharan Singh Tohra, former President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), had stated that Harbhajan Singh is not the leader of Sikhism in the Western World as he claimed, and that Tohra had denied the SGPC had ever given Singh the title of Siri Singh Sahib.[41]

Harbhajan Singh is featured in books discussing the successes of Sikhs who migrated from India to the West, including Surjit Kaur's Among the Sikhs: Reaching for the Stars.[42] and Gurmukh Singh's The Global Indian: The Sikhs.[43]

Scholars including Verne A. Dusenbery and Pashaura Singh have concurred that Harbhajan Singh's introduction of Sikh teachings into the West helped identify Sikhism as a world religion while at the same time creating a compelling counter-narrative to that which identified Sikhs solely as a race with a shared history in India.[44]

Philip Deslippe, a historian of American religion, wrote a 2012 article "From Maharaj to Mahan Tantric: The Construction of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga", using 3HO source archive material and news articles to reveal how Harbhajan Singh recreated his own story after his first trip back to India:[11]

When we love, care, share, and selflessly help another, we are said to be living in the Guru principle. These bhajans, dedicated to the Guru or spiritual teacher, will also bring us closer to the Guru principle within us. Many of these chants are widely heard during the Guru Purnima celebrations as these are expressions of devotion and surrender.

It is hoped that this selection of soothing chants and bhajans creates a peaceful silence in you. A silence that gives you rest, and energizes you to return to your activities with vigor, optimism, and joy.

And thanks to the political unrest of the late 1960s and early 1970s, his mystical yoga class became increasingly popular for White middle-class Americans seeking spirituality and consciousness. The spiritual teacher branded himself as a guru from India named Yogi Bhajan and built an empire that grew to a multi-million dollar organization that included both fraudulent schemes and sexual misconduct.

While Yogi Bhajan claimed that he was a well-known Sikh leader in India, which helped his brand as a Sikh guru in the US, the truth is that he was just a civil servant with little to no notoriety whatsoever. He was born as Harbhajan Singh Puri and was a customs officer at the New Delhi airport. Yet when he left India and eventually arrived in the United States, he had renamed himself Yogi Bhajan and had recruited a group of followers to help him build his empire.

Meaning: Sing always the glory of our Lord; Let the bhajan resound with love and devotion; Come to the feet of Lord Sai; In your heart's temple, light the lamp of love; He will take you across the ocean of life. e24fc04721

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