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ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
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<blockquote data-quote="Tejwant Singh" data-source="post: 3067" data-attributes="member: 138"><p><strong>Re: What is 3HO ?</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Yogi Bhajan, 75, 'Boss' of Worlds Spiritual and Capitalistic, Dies</strong></p><p><strong>N.Y. TIMES</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>By DOUGLAS MARTIN</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Published: October 9, 2004</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Yogi Bhajan, a former customs inspector at the Delhi airport who became both the spiritual leader to Americans following his version of the ancient Sikh religion and a highly successful entrepreneur, died Wednesday at his home in Española, N.M. He was 75.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The cause was complications from heart failure, Sikh Dharma, his spiritual community, announced. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Yogi Bhajan, whose full name was Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji, <strong>introduced an ancient and arduous form of Indian yoga, Kundalini yoga, to Americans.</strong> It is more active than the more common Hatha yoga and is practiced by thousands of people across America.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">He also introduced Sikhism to this country, but with twists that startled Indian Sikhs. For one thing, <strong>yoga is a Hindu practice, not </strong>a Sikh one. For another, he insisted that <strong>his followers be vegetarians, though Sikhs are renowned as meat eaters.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong></strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">But he more than retained the Sikh tradition of being superb warriors: <strong>he mobilized his followers into a security company that guards federal courthouses and Army bases and takes in more than $1 billion a year.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong></strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Others of the 17 businesses he helped create included yoga centers and real estate concerns, as well as his<strong> Golden Temple natural foods company, Yogi herbal teas operation, Soothing Touch health and beauty products and Peace natural cereals</strong>. One of his nicknames was "the boss," <strong><em>The Miami Herald </em></strong>reported in 1998.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"The whole point of all these ventures is not for an individual to get rich, but to perpetuate the mission of the community," Avtar Hari Singh Khalsa, chief executive of Yogi Bhajan's 3HO Foundation, said in an interview with The New York Times last month.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Mr. Khalsa had previously been a television executive in Hollywood, home to not a few of the guru's disciples. <strong>One of them, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, has drawn attention for teaching Kundalini yoga to pregnant celebrities like Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Melissa Etheridge and Cindy Crawford. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong></strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Partly because of his great visibility, Yogi Bhajan inspired critics, including traditional Sikhs; <span style="color: #800000"><strong>the cult expert Rick A. Ross</strong></span>, who called him an <strong>"absolute authoritarian figure"; and </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-size: 18px">people concerned with his sometimes explicit sexual instructions.</span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sikhism originated in the Punjab in the 15th century and preaches the commonality of all religions, the virtue of hard work and a belief in one god. Sikh men in India carry side swords <span style="color: #0000ff"><strong>[What it is described a ‘side sword’ is not a ‘sword’. It is one of the tenets (5-Ks) of the Sikh faith, called <em>‘Kirpaan’</em>. There is no English word for <em>‘Kirpaan’</em> in any dictionary of the English language and/or encyclopedia, writes Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki) of CANADA. The usage of the word ‘sword’ or side sword for <em>‘Kirpaan’</em> is strongly objected by Dr Sekhon, as the<em> ‘Kirpaan’</em> is ‘not’ a lethal weapon. It is one of the 5-Ks required for an initiated Sikh person, along with the ‘Sikh turban or <em>‘Dastaar’</em>, in order to meet requirements of the ‘Sikh Identity’]</strong></span>, and so do Yogi Bhajan's disciples, most of whom are Americans not of Indian descent.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Yogi Bhajan met with two popes, two archbishops of Canterbury and the Dalai Lama. In New Mexico, he was important not least as a substantial contributor to both the Democratic and Republican parties; Gov. Bill Richardson ordered flags flown at half-staff in his honor.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Harbhajan Singh Puri was born on Aug. 26, 1929, in the town of Gujrawala in what is now Pakistan. (<strong>He legally changed his name when he became a United States citizen in 1976</strong>.) The son of a medical doctor, he graduated from Punjab University with an economics degree in 1954, then worked for 15 years as a customs official.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">He told <strong><em>The Miami Herald</em></strong> that he had learned Kundalini yoga by having a helicopter lower him into the mouth of a cave in the Himalayas, where he kneeled for three days until the yogi master inside consented to teach him. He later claimed to be the <strong>only living master of Tantrism<span style="color: #0000ff"> [Note: Tantrism is anti-Sikh and un-Sikh practice, writes Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki) of Canada]</span></strong>,</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">a sexual form of yoga that men and woman practice together.</span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">He left India for Canada in 1968 and taught yoga in Toronto. He soon moved to Los Angeles, where he was attracted to youths caught up in psychedelic drugs. He called them "searching souls" and persuaded many of them to substitute meditation for LSD. Later, he set up a more general program to treat drug abusers.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Yogi Bhajan founded Sikh Dharma, his center in New Mexico's Española Valley, in the late 1960's. Time magazine reported in 1977 that <strong>he required his disciples to work 12 hours a day on low salaries and skimpy diets. Similar reports appeared elsewhere over the years</strong>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">His followers say that his strictures transform their lives in a positive way and that any sacrifices are voluntary. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Yogi Bhajan is survived by his wife, Inderjit Kaur; his sons, Ranbir Singh and Kulbir Singh; his daughter, Kamaljit Kaur; and five grandchildren.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">He also left other families behind. He believed he could match couples by sensing the energy surrounding them as well as <strong>foreseeing their future [This also is anti-Sikh faith and un-Sikh like practice, writes Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki) of Canada]</strong>. New West magazine in 1980 reported that sometimes in the middle of a lecture, he interrupted himself and declared to a pair of audience members, "Oh, you two people are engaged." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tejwant Singh, post: 3067, member: 138"] [b]Re: What is 3HO ?[/b] [b]Yogi Bhajan, 75, 'Boss' of Worlds Spiritual and Capitalistic, Dies N.Y. TIMES [/b] [b]By DOUGLAS MARTIN [/b] [size=1][font=Verdana]Published: October 9, 2004 [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Yogi Bhajan, a former customs inspector at the Delhi airport who became both the spiritual leader to Americans following his version of the ancient Sikh religion and a highly successful entrepreneur, died Wednesday at his home in Española, N.M. He was 75. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]The cause was complications from heart failure, Sikh Dharma, his spiritual community, announced. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Yogi Bhajan, whose full name was Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji, [b]introduced an ancient and arduous form of Indian yoga, Kundalini yoga, to Americans.[/b] It is more active than the more common Hatha yoga and is practiced by thousands of people across America. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]He also introduced Sikhism to this country, but with twists that startled Indian Sikhs. For one thing, [b]yoga is a Hindu practice, not [/b]a Sikh one. For another, he insisted that [b]his followers be vegetarians, though Sikhs are renowned as meat eaters. [/b][/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]But he more than retained the Sikh tradition of being superb warriors: [b]he mobilized his followers into a security company that guards federal courthouses and Army bases and takes in more than $1 billion a year. [/b][/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Others of the 17 businesses he helped create included yoga centers and real estate concerns, as well as his[b] Golden Temple natural foods company, Yogi herbal teas operation, Soothing Touch health and beauty products and Peace natural cereals[/b]. One of his nicknames was "the boss," [b][i]The Miami Herald [/i][/b]reported in 1998. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]"The whole point of all these ventures is not for an individual to get rich, but to perpetuate the mission of the community," Avtar Hari Singh Khalsa, chief executive of Yogi Bhajan's 3HO Foundation, said in an interview with The New York Times last month. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Mr. Khalsa had previously been a television executive in Hollywood, home to not a few of the guru's disciples. [b]One of them, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, has drawn attention for teaching Kundalini yoga to pregnant celebrities like Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Melissa Etheridge and Cindy Crawford. [/b][/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Partly because of his great visibility, Yogi Bhajan inspired critics, including traditional Sikhs; [color=#800000][b]the cult expert Rick A. Ross[/b][/color], who called him an [b]"absolute authoritarian figure"; and [/b][/font][/size][font=Times New Roman][b][color=#ff0000][size=5]people concerned with his sometimes explicit sexual instructions. [/size][/color][/b][/font][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Sikhism originated in the Punjab in the 15th century and preaches the commonality of all religions, the virtue of hard work and a belief in one god. Sikh men in India carry side swords [color=#0000ff][b][What it is described a ‘side sword’ is not a ‘sword’. It is one of the tenets (5-Ks) of the Sikh faith, called [i]‘Kirpaan’[/i]. There is no English word for [i]‘Kirpaan’[/i] in any dictionary of the English language and/or encyclopedia, writes Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki) of CANADA. The usage of the word ‘sword’ or side sword for [i]‘Kirpaan’[/i] is strongly objected by Dr Sekhon, as the[i] ‘Kirpaan’[/i] is ‘not’ a lethal weapon. It is one of the 5-Ks required for an initiated Sikh person, along with the ‘Sikh turban or [i]‘Dastaar’[/i], in order to meet requirements of the ‘Sikh Identity’][/b][/color], and so do Yogi Bhajan's disciples, most of whom are Americans not of Indian descent. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Yogi Bhajan met with two popes, two archbishops of Canterbury and the Dalai Lama. In New Mexico, he was important not least as a substantial contributor to both the Democratic and Republican parties; Gov. Bill Richardson ordered flags flown at half-staff in his honor. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Harbhajan Singh Puri was born on Aug. 26, 1929, in the town of Gujrawala in what is now Pakistan. ([b]He legally changed his name when he became a United States citizen in 1976[/b].) The son of a medical doctor, he graduated from Punjab University with an economics degree in 1954, then worked for 15 years as a customs official. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]He told [b][i]The Miami Herald[/i][/b] that he had learned Kundalini yoga by having a helicopter lower him into the mouth of a cave in the Himalayas, where he kneeled for three days until the yogi master inside consented to teach him. He later claimed to be the [b]only living master of Tantrism[color=#0000ff] [Note: Tantrism is anti-Sikh and un-Sikh practice, writes Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki) of Canada][/color][/b],[color=#ff0000][/color][/font][/size][font=Times New Roman][color=#ff0000][b][size=5]a sexual form of yoga that men and woman practice together. [/size][/b][/color][/font][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]He left India for Canada in 1968 and taught yoga in Toronto. He soon moved to Los Angeles, where he was attracted to youths caught up in psychedelic drugs. He called them "searching souls" and persuaded many of them to substitute meditation for LSD. Later, he set up a more general program to treat drug abusers. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Yogi Bhajan founded Sikh Dharma, his center in New Mexico's Española Valley, in the late 1960's. Time magazine reported in 1977 that [b]he required his disciples to work 12 hours a day on low salaries and skimpy diets. Similar reports appeared elsewhere over the years[/b]. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]His followers say that his strictures transform their lives in a positive way and that any sacrifices are voluntary. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Yogi Bhajan is survived by his wife, Inderjit Kaur; his sons, Ranbir Singh and Kulbir Singh; his daughter, Kamaljit Kaur; and five grandchildren. [/font][/size][font=Verdana] [/font][size=4][font=Times New Roman]He also left other families behind. He believed he could match couples by sensing the energy surrounding them as well as [b]foreseeing their future [This also is anti-Sikh faith and un-Sikh like practice, writes Dr Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki) of Canada][/b]. New West magazine in 1980 reported that sometimes in the middle of a lecture, he interrupted himself and declared to a pair of audience members, "Oh, you two people are engaged." [/font][/size] [/QUOTE]
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