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A Brief History
Master of Kundalini Yoga and Mahan Tantric
Yogi Bhajan (Harbhajan Singh Puri) was born in what is now Pakistan and moved to India during the partition. He was born into a family that had prayed for a son for 25 years and after his birth his father took young Harbhajan to the temple to pray in thanks for a prayer answered. His father, Dr Kartar Singh Puri, was a medical doctor and .jpg) his mother, Harkrishan Kaur was a woman of indomitable will and unswerving adherence to righteous principles. Harbhajan was born into a landlord’s family and consequently his birthday was a very festive occasion and each year he would be weighed on his birthday and as many kilos as he weighed, that many gold, silver and copper coins, along with seven times that number of kilos of wheat, would be given to the poor people of the village. From this tradition of feeding the poor on his birthday, the consciousness of seva (selfless service) was established in him from an early age.
He was educated as the only boy attending a girls’ Catholic convent school, a school that provided the finest education available in the area. His most influential teacher during his formative years was his saintly grandfather, Sant Bhai Fateh Singh, who used to take the young Harbhajan Singh on his lap and tell him inspiring stories, always encouraging him to live righteously. His paternal grandmother also held a very special place in respect to moulding his character, Ishar Kaur was a formidable woman who would always catch the young Harbhajan in his mischief and with love and kindness would guide him on the right path.
Harbhajan Singh mastered Kundalini yoga at the age of 16 and a half under the direction of Sant Hazara Singh, who was an incredibly strict teacher. From him he learned all the Tantric knowledge which was to serve him so well in later years when time and destiny would give him the unique responsibility of raising the consciousness of many in his role as the Mahan Tantric. The uncompromising persistence of his teacher pushed him beyond his self-imposed limits to learn to keep up and relate to the Infinite and not the finite.
“It’s not the life that matters, but the courage you bring to it.”
The patience and compassion of Yogi Bhajan in the early years of 3HO, in the face of our ignorance, our insults, our laziness to go beyond our persistence in living our limitations rather than realizing our full human potential is staggering. I do not believe that there would be a Kundalini yoga movement in the western world without the sacrifice of the man so affectionately known as Yogi Bhajan.
After finishing his schooling and having established his career as an officer within the Indian Government service, in 1953 the young Harbhajan Singh was married to Sardarni Inderjit Kaur, in her he saw her pious demeanor and her great capacity for sacrifice and together they had 3 children over the years. Harbhajan spent a total of 18 years in service of the Indian Government. Throughout his service he had earned a reputation for absolute honesty and integrity and had won the respect and admiration of both junior and senior officers. In Sept 1968 he turned in his letter of resignation from the Government post. His family was to remain in Delhi until circumstances would make it possible for them to join him.
 He arrived to Canada in 1968 to teach at the university but found upon his arrival that the person who was responsible for hiring him had been killed in an auto accident and there was no longer a job. He had lost all of his luggage in route and was walking the streets of a Canadian winter in sandals believing that things would work out as God intended them too. He was invited to visit an old friend from New Delhi who had settled in Los Angeles in December 1968 but ended up staying indefinitely because he could immediately sense that LA was the centre of the youth movement toward self knowledge, self discovery and expression of real and meaningful values and he had been well equipped with knowledge, experience and a technology which could fulfil the longings of those searching souls. So he began teaching Kundalini yoga, first at the East-West Cultural Centre and then in Jules Buccieri’s furniture store on Melrose Ave.
Each aspect of his life and work had prepared him well for the many-faceted role he was to play in the West, as a spiritual teacher, spiritual father, organizer and administrator of a vast network of communities throughout the world, and finally as the Chief Religious and Administrative Authority for the Sikh Dharma. He was able to utilize his training in the yogic sciences and his knowledge of simple dietary practices derived from a culture which was still in close touch with its own folk medicines, combining all of these with his own innate wisdom and spiritual enlightenment at the House of Guru Ram Das made him an excellent teacher on all levels.
We started Kundalini yoga under his loving guidance, as a father, mentor, and spiritual master showing his love and kindness as well as his strength and mastery to each in a way that they needed and understood to find within themselves the strength and discipline to make changes in their lives.
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Quote of the month
“Without meditation, and without a relationship to your mind, you fail to use the power of the mind. You fail to rely on your self. You complicate your approach. You do not use the beautiful designs given to you by birthright in this body, that link the effectiveness of body, mind, soul and you.”
Yogi Bhajan
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