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Joogi Bhajan

Yogi Bhajan

Yogi Bhajan or Harbhajan Singh was born on August 26th in 1929 in an area that nowadays is part of Pakistan into a family of healers and community leaders. As a student, he studied comparative theology. He also obtained Master’s degree in economical sciences from Punjab University. Years later, he was nominated a PhD in San Francisco Humanitarian Institute in the field of communication psychology.
Yogi Bhajan was the one to break the longterm tradition of secrecy of Kundalini yoga. He was denominated as a Master of Kundalini yoga when he was only 16. At the age of 39, he quit a well-paid job in Indian civil service to follow his vision of bringing Kundalini yoga to Western world. He gave his first lecture in a gym in Los Angeles in 1969. Despite of no listeners, Yogi Bhajan still gave a full lecture in an empty hall. In 1971 he became Mahan Tantric, Master of White Tantra.


In the middle of the intricate drug culture of 1960ies, Yogi Bhajan first addressed youngsters. He understood, that the actual goal for testing with drugs and for achieving different state of consciousness, was a deep wish to experience elevated and free state of consciousness. He realized that in best cases, the drugs only offered a cheap and deceptive state of mind, compared to peaceful inner euphoria, that Kundalini yoga can offer in a natural way. The lessons of Yogi Bhajan became very popular among young folks, people came by busfuls, and very soon centres of 3HO started to crop up all over the States of America and later in all the rest of the world.
With the network of 3HO Yogi Bhajan created new course that by now has grown into more than 50 years of persevering action and yoga and meditation have fbecome widely known and popular in the West. The message of Yogi Bhajan has reached the mediums of the world, not as a proof of usefulness of yoga and meditation, but more so as a proof of growing public interest towards spiritual and healthy lifestyle.
Yogi Bhajan wrote more than 30 books on spirituality and consciousness, but also on communication and psychology. He started several businesses that produce and distribute natural food products based on his teachings. He boosted economical development in every community he had contact with. He held yearly business seminars and wrote several books that offer inspiration and guidance both to an ambitious entrepreneur as well as to an experienced manager. As Siri Singh Sahib, the leader of Sikhs in the West, he met Pope John Paul II for a cross-religion dialog. He also worked side by side with Dalai Lama and Archbishop of Canterbury for world peace.
From the first moment Yogi Bhajan started teaching Kundalini yoga, he proclaimed: “I have come to create teachers, not students. I have come with the blessing of my Guru, to serve these souls who serve in the Age of Aquarius.” He started to share teachings that we know as “Kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan”. With perfect consciousness and brilliance he created institution and teachings to serve the consciousness of the Aquarian Age. A student once asked him: “How can I get to know you more closely?” And he answered: “I am my teachings. Read them, practice them and you’ll get to know me.” Through his sacrifise, devotion and consciousness he left us legacy, not descendence and path, not idiosyncrasy.
Yogi Bhajan left his physical body on the 6th of October in 2004, at the age of 75 in his home in Espanola, New Mexico. People gathered from all over the world to commemorate the life of this remarkable teacher and humanitarian. Many teachers who were inspired by Yogi Bhajan, have in devotion taken over the carrying along of this deep legacy. The words of the last lecture of Yogi Bhajan were: “The Creator and the Soul are constant. They will last forever. We all will have to leave one day. One day, you too will be facing this. The body becomes eternal Soul… Let us understand that we are an infinite ray of The Creator… Life is to live for each other. It is to live for one another.”

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