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YOGI BHAJAN SPECIAL ISSUE
August 26, 1929 October 6, 2004
Yogi Bhajan illustrated here controlling Tantric Shakti energy.
Notice the depiction of Shiva, above Yogi Bhajans head. Shiva is
the God of Yoga for the Hindus. The illustration also shows
Kundalini Yoga Asanas taught by Yogi Bhajan for transmuting
sexual energy.

In This Issue/qqkrw
Yogi Bhajan Special Issue1
Editorial: Full text of the letter to the Register-
Guard, Eugene, Oregon.2
Letter to the Vice Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev
University, Amritsar..4
Religion: Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism..6
The Story of my Life, Kamalla Rose Kaur...7
Khalsa vs Khalsa.14
Sikhs alarmed about Use/Sale of the
Golden Temple Brand.............................................20
Fourteen Points, Amar Prakash Singh....................21
Fake it and you 'II make it! Devinderjit Singh22
November 1984 Sikh Genocide..29
President Obamas India Visit, Sikhs for J ustice30
Guru Manio Granth, Sawan Singh..31
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EDITORIAL

FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER TO
THE REGISTER-GUARD

Letter to the Editor,
The Register-Guard
Eugene, Oregon

Recently, a friend who knew that I have written about
Bhajan Yogi in my magazine, The Sikh Bulletin, in the
past, sent me a couple of articles on Yogis
organizations involved in litigation in Oregon, that
appeared in The Register-Guard. This was no surprise
to me. But the letters to the editor that followed, critical
of the reporter and some implied criticism of writing
negative about minorities, prompts me to briefly throw
some light on the subject. Bhajan Yogi was extremely
good at what he did but propagation of Sikhism it
was not. Criticism of Bhajan Yogis cult cannot be
construed as criticism of Sikhism.

Bhajan Yogis cult was based in Los Angeles and New
Mexico but Oregon has had its own share of cults of
Indian origin. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh moved into the
central Oregon town of Antelope and created a
commune of free love, immigration scam, mass murder
plots and 93 Rolls Royces, gifted to him by his very
wealthy twenty and thirty-some things, during 1981-85,
before his deportation by Presidential (Ronald Reagan,
The Republican President) intervention.

Dr. Trilochan Singh, a distinguished Sikh scholar, in his
book Sikhism and Tantric Yoga, published in 1977,
describes Bhajan Yogi, succinctly and devastatingly, in
the following words: Yogi Bhajan is a Sikh by birth,
a Maha Tantric by choice but without training, and a
Sri Singh Sahib and self styled Leader of the Sikhs
of Western Hemisphere by fluke and mysterious
strategy.

There was, however, no mystery to his strategy. All he
had to do was to ingratiate himself with the Sikh
Religious leadership in Panjab that was even more
corrupt than the Vatican during the time of Martin
Luther (1483-1546), founder of the Protestant Church.

According to the Tantrics the best form of worship is
the fullest satisfaction of the sexual desires of man
therefore in Tantric worship sexual intercourse with any
woman is prescribed as a part of worship. In the annals
of abuse of women some had harems, others had
concubines and Bhajan Yogi had Secretaries. The Sikh
Gurus condemned the Tantrics and their practices.

When I received copies of the court documents of
cases against Yogi from the Federal Govt. archives in
Colorado I was incredulous about one disciple of Yogi
luring her own sister into a rape victim but just then
news papers reported exactly a similar story where a
sister conspired to have her own sister raped by her
boy friend. All the cases mentioned in The Register-
Guard had merit, otherwise Yogi would not have
settled out of court. In some cases, such as lottery
scam, some of yogis lieutenants shouldered the entire
blame and served prison time but some innocent
families were destroyed, including their faith in
Sikhism (falsely taught).

Yogi devised The Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib
Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi Ji as his full
name/title. That is eleven words. The person whose
teachings Yogi was supposedly practicing and
preaching had conquered his ago and used only one
word in his name Nanak. But yogi was full of it.
Humility is the hallmark of a Sikh and Yogi did not
have any of it. Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism,
himself describes people like Bhajan Yogi in succinct
language, Nanak, those are real asses, who have no
virtues but are filled with egotistical pride. GGS P.
1246.
Sikhism is unique among the worlds religions because

it is unlike any of them, except certain principles of
ethics and moral norms which are common to all
religions as well as the atheists. Sikhism is the only
religion of The Book from the East, Guru Granth
Sahib, like the three Semitic religions of, The Torah,
The Holy Bible and The Holy Quran. But similarity
ends right there; fundamental difference being the
concept of God. Superficially all four religions believe
in one God, but which one? God of J ews favours only
his chosen people who are still waiting for their
Messiah; Christian God would save only those who
believe in his son J esus Christ, the Messiah who has
already come, and the Muslim God has the last word
because Mohammed is the last Messiah and there shall
be no more. President Bush (J r.) has a different God
than Osama-bin-Laden.

Guru Nanak rejected all the religions of his day,
including the one he was born into. Guru Nanaks
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God is the God of entire creation, God is ONE. His
name is Truth. He is the creator. He is fearless and not
inimical. He is without death and without birth. He is
self-existent. Humans can attune to him through Gurus
grace. God existed in the beginning; He existed
when time started running its course; He exists even
now and He shall exist forever and ever.

When the Pope had Galileo (1564-1642) jailed for
advocacy of Copernicus (1473-1543) theory,
condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical,
that earth revolves around the sun, Guru Nanak (1469-
1539) was postulating views on the origin of the
Universe that will make the Big Bang theorists proud
and stating unambiguously that there are countless
Earths, Moons and Suns. He called the natural laws that
govern their motions in space hukam (Cosmic Law).
Cosmos is the manifest form of God, hukam (Cosmic
Law) is the invisible form that pervades the cosmos.
And long before Darwins (1809-1882) theory of
origin of species, Nanak had declared that life began in
water and evolved through many life forms in the
water, over and under the land and in the air with
human beings the ultimate life form. Death is a loss of
consciousness. When a person dies he/she does not go
to heaven or hell, because heaven and hell exist only on
this earth, in this life and we make them. A person gets
human form only once. Upon death, the spark we call
soul merges with the cosmic law/God and the body
turns to the star dust that it is made of.

Guru Nanak was born into a Hindu household but
with that faith Sikhism shares nothing, not even the
concept of One God. At a very young age he refused to
wear the janeu (Hindu sacred thread worn by high caste
males); discarded the caste system (a religiously
sanctioned discrimination still entrenched in the 21
st

century democratic India); preached against idol
worship; recognized the equality of mankind; asserted
the equality of men and women; condemned the Hindu
practice of Sati (live immolation of widow on her
husbands funeral pyre); instructed the women to
discard veil; allowed widow and widower remarriage;
rejected the then prevalent concepts of karma, after life
salvation, tapasya, heaven and hell (after death),
incarnation, transmigration, 84 lakh juni (8,400,000 life
forms) yatra to holy places, fasting, multiple gods and
goddesses; and of course, unique only to Sikhism,
wished sarbat da bhala (wishing well being of all, not
just of oneself, ones own family or ones own country)
in his prayers. His was a faith of Universal
Humanism.

Sikhism has neither anything like Ten
Commandments nor Sharia. Instead the Guru
simply says do not commit an act that you will later
regret and do not eat or drink that is unhealthy for
your body and mind. Simple as that! Guru Nanak
rejected the concepts of virgin birth, resurrection
(death is final), specific times and facing specific
direction for prayer, starving the body for a day or
day time and then gorging at night fall, pilgrimage
for spiritual gain and feeding the Brahman to
sustain deceased relatives.

In Sikhism, no one place is holier than the other
because all places are created by God and God
permeates everywhere. Eugene, Oregon is just as holy
as Hardwar, Banaras, Mecca, Medina and J erusalem;
no time or day is more auspicious than the other; but
only that time is blessed when one remembers
God/Truth; Truth is higher than everything, but
higher still is truthful living because that is union
with God.

President
Khalsa Tricentennial Foundation of N. A. Inc.
Editor-in-Chief
The Sikh Bulletin
editor@sikhbulletin.com
May 24, 2010

[With my permission the Editors of the Newspaper
condensed this letter, very nicely I must say, to bring it
within their number of words limit but they could not
bring themselves around to printing the words real
asses in the quote from GGS p.1246. ED.]

[For an amazing look at Yogi World click at the links
below. ED]
Gurmukhyoga.com
http://www.sarbloh.info/htmls/sikh_udhasi.html
http://www.rickross.com/reference/3ho/3ho58.html
http://www.yogibotanicals.com/index.php
http://www.yogibotanicals.com/experience-
expertise.php
http://www.yogibotanicals.com/ceo-message.php
http://www.rickross.com/reference/3ho/3ho58.html

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LETTER TO THE VICE CHANCELLOR,
GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY
AMRITSAR
March 21/2001

Dr. Harbhajan Singh Soch
Vice Chancellor
Guru Nanak Dev University
Amritsar 143 005
Panjab, India

It was most kind of you to take my call last
evening and confirm the university's decision to
confer Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
(honoris causa) on:

The Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh
Khalsa Yogi Ji.

(That is eleven words. The person who had conquered
his ago used only one word in his name - Nanak)

I was encouraged to hear from you that you would like
me to send to you the material that supports my
contention that your university should not confer this or
any other degree on this person. It is bad enough that a
centre of leaning named after the greatest religious
teacher, thinker, philosopher, and prophet that the world
has ever known succumbed to the political pressures
and offended the sensitivities of the entire Sikh Qaum
by creating "Satguru' Ram Singh Chair, but to
compound it by another affront by honouring this man
with an honorary degree will further lower the image
and the prestige of the university. We hope and pray
that one day when Sikhs come to political power in
Panjab and Sikh institutions of SGPC and SAD come
once again under the control of Gursikhs, 'Satguru' Ram
Singh Chair will be abolished and replaced by a chair
honouring a true modern day Gursikh exponent of
Nanak's teachings.

In the light of this information supplied to you, whether
you decide to reverse your decision to confer this
degree on this man or not, for the Sikh Qaum it will be
a win win situation. Your decision will determine
whether the truth sees light of the day before or after he
goes to his grave and in his own words creates a place
to spit:

"Let the place be built to the beauty that there
shall be nothing in the world which can even try to
equal it. Do not gold plate it. Put the very bricks of
the gold. Somebody was telling me that soft gold
gets taken away. I said, "Well, blessed are those
feet which will take it away." They said, "What
will you do then?" I said, "We'll replace it, it takes
very easy." Build a befitting glory to the throne of
Guru Ram Das and the day you shall complete,
that day you and your generations shall rule the
planet earth. If it comes not true, wherever my
ashes are, spit at it".

Mr. Gurcharan Singh Tohra has already guaranteed his
place in the Sikh Hall of Shame, among other things,
by extending to this man the respectability and
credibility that he did not deserve.

Bhai J iwan Singh of Akhand Kirtani J atha and his
associate from the same J atha, S, Ripudaman Singh
Malik (now himself in Canadian J ail), are responsible
for keeping him out of jail.

From now on the Sikhs in Diaspora will not allow
these unholy alliances in the name of Sikhi, where
the watch word is, 'you scratch my back and I will
scratch yours', to flourish.

In the recent past I have seen pictures of Yogi
hobnobbing with Dr. J asbir Singh Ahluwalia, Vice
Chancellor of Panjabi University, Patiala. Dr. Balkar
Singh of that university has accepted the employment
of yogi thus demeaning himself and losing his
credibility. You have my permission to share this
information with your colleague so that he and that
university Senate are spared the embarrassment of
'lizard in snake's mouth'.

Bhajan Yogi is very good at what he is and what he
does. Sikhi is not it.

Gur Fateh. Yours in Guru Seva,

cc. Lt. Gen. J FR J acob, Chancellor of The University,
Governor of Panjab, Panjab Govt. Secretariat,
Chandigarh, Panjab, India.

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Enclosure:

1. Kate Felt Interview4pp ........................................4pp
2. Katherine Felt, Plaintiff vs. Harbhajan Singh
Khalsa Yogi J i, Civil Action No. 86-0839 HB.......82pp
3. Plaintiff Katherine Felt's Memorandum of
Points And Authorities in Opposition To
Defendant Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji's
Motion To Dismiss..20pp
4. Plaintiff Katherine Felt's Memorandum of Points
And Authorities in Opposition To Corporate
Defendants' Motion To Dismiss .............................26pp
5. Katherine Felt And S. Premka Kaur Khalsa
Plaintiffs vs. Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi J i
et al............................................................................2pp
6. Oct. 28, 1986 Doctor's letter Re Yogi's Inability
To Appear For Deposition On Dec. 1, 1986.............1pp
7. S. Premka Kaur Khalsa, Plaintiff vs. Harbhajan
Singh Khalsa Yogiji et al, CA 86-0838.....................3pp
8. Nov. 11, 1987 Doctor's Letter Re Yogi's
Inability To Appear For A Legal Deposition............1pp
9. Notice of Defendant Harbhajan Singh Khalsa
Yogiji's Physical Condition.......................................2pp
10. Order of The Court CA No. 86-0838-M
Civil and CA No. 86-0839-HB Civil.........................4pp
Khalsa Yogiji, et al. Order of Dismissal................... 2pp
12. Misrepresentations That Yogi Bhajan Made About
Himself To Premka Kaur Khalsa..............................4pp
Singh Khalsa Yogiji, CA No. 86-0838 M...............44pp
14. Affidavit of Pamela Dyson Aug. 4, 1987............6pp
15. Plaintiffs' (Premka and Katherine) First Requests
For Admissions, Aug. 27, 1987,...............................7pp
16. Motion To Compel Discovery, Aug. 27, 1987...5pp
17. Affidavit of Robert C. Fellows, Oct. 9 1987......4pp
18. Supp. Memo. of Points and Authorities In Supp.
of Motion To Compel Discovery, Oct. 9, 1987 ..3pp
19. Memorandum Opinion and Order,
Oct. 22 1987.... ..12pp
20. Affidavit of Mukhia Sardarni Sahiba Shakti
Parwha Kaur Khalsa, Nov. 24, 1987........................7pp
21. Affidavit of Plaintiff S. Premka Kaur Khalsa,
J an. 11 1988...........................................................18pp
22. Drug Dealers, Cult Leaders, Thieves,
Group Picture...........................................................2pp
23. United States of America vs. Gurujot Singh
Khalsa, Case No. 88-210-M, Feb. 29, 1988...17pp
24. Premka Kaur Khalsa, Plaintiff, vs. Harbhajan
Singh Khalsa Yogiji et al. Affidavit of Gurujot
Singh Khalsa, Aug. 8, 1986......................................3pp
Khalsa Yogiji et al. Defendants, Supplemental
Affidavit of Manmohan Singh To Plaintiff Brief
In Opposition To Motion To Disqualify..................4pp
Singh Khalsa Yogiji et al. Defendants, Affidavit of
Swaran Singh, Sept. 9,1986.....................................4pp
27. People of The State of California vs. Kirpal
Singh Khalsa, CANo. MCR 8425, Oct. 27,1992.6pp
28. Guru BirSingh's Story........................................9pp
29. United States District Court, Central
District of California, Federal Trade Commission,
Plaintiff vs. Several Corporations and Hari J iwan
Singh Khalsa and Siri Ram Singh Khalsa, CV-97-
4544 LGB (J GX)................................................66pp
30. First J udicial District Court County of Santa Fe,
State of New Mexico, Case No. SF 88-2286 (C)
Mark Baker, Plaintiff vs. Yogi Bhajan, et al.
Defendants. Affidavit of Richard Oshe, Ph.D,
May. 5, 1985.........................................................8pp
31. April 15, 1995 Letter To Me With The Letter
Head Showing: 'IN GOD I DWELL" Banner Below
'Siri Singh Sahib, Sikh Dharma', Shield, With A
British Lion Holding Khanda In Its Right Paw and
Its Tail Wrapped Around Symbol of Ek Onkar
(Reminds Me of S. Parkash Singh Badal's GauMata
(Cow), With Its Belly full of Gurus' Pictures, Sikh
Bulletin Feb. 200 l...,............................................2pp
32. Letters To The Editor, World Sikh News, Aug.
25, 1995 by Dr. Gubakhsh Singb Gill:
'J athedar (Manjit Singh) Team Visits Yogi
Ashram. Why?'.........................................1pp
33. The Temple of Steel.......................................2pp
34. My March 16, 1999 Letter To Bibi J agir Kaur,
President, SGPC Requesting that certain persons
should not be allowed to officially participate in the
300
th
Anniversary celebrations.....................1pp
35. Two Pictures...................................................2pp
36. Misc. From The Internet...............................15pp

[It is to the credit of Dr. Soch that during his
tenure no such degree was awarded to Bhajan
Yogi but this despicable act was performed by
his successor. HSS]

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RELIGION: YOGI BHAJAN'S
SYNTHETIC SIKHISM
TIME IN PARNERSHIP WITH CNN
Monday, Sep. 05, 1977

The leader of 3HO inspires devotionand hostility
Nine years ago, he was an anonymous yoga teacher
who owned little but a suitcase full of beads. Today he
earns over $100,000 a year in lecture fees as Yogi
Bhajan, the "Supreme Religious and Administrative
Authority of the Sikh Religion in the Western
Hemisphere." Thousands of American disciples in his
Healthy-Happy-Holy Organization ("3HO") revere the
robust, bearded Bhajan as the holiest man of this era.
With equal fervor, opponents denounce him as a
charlatan and a heretic.

The kind of Sikhism preached by Bhajan, 48, an Indian
born in what is now Pakistan, is far different from that
practiced by 10 million Indians. Sikhism, a blend of
reformed Hinduism and Islam, is practical-minded,
allows democratic election of its priests, and abhors
personality cults. Bhajan's powerful personality is
central to his sect, and ambition has driven him far
since his days as an unknown customs officer at the
Delhi airport.

In 1968 Bhajan emigrated to Toronto, later that year
moved to Los Angeles and eventually started his own
ashramspiritual communein a garage. Although
India's Sikhs are renowned as meat eaters, Bhajan has
insisted that his followers be strict vegetarians. While
yoga is not part of Sikhism, Bhajan teaches the practice,
and not the mild form widespread in the U.S. but
Tantrism, a strenuous, mystical variety practiced by
men and women in pairs. Claiming to be the only living
master of Tantrism, Bhajan stresses Kundalini yoga,
which supposedly releases secret energy that travels up
the spine. He reveals breathing and massage techniques
said to improve sexual performance. And he preaches:
"The man who ties a turban on his head must live up to
the purity of the whiteness and radiance of his soul."

Undeniably, Bhajan has struck some kind of chord.
There are now 110 ashrams of various sizes in the U.S.,
Canada, and overseas. The yogi claims to have won
some 250,000 followers, but a more realistic estimate
would place the number of zealots at several thousand,
although many more flock to his meetings. Bhajan's
base is a well-groomed 40-acre ranch near Espanola, N.
Mex., where his quarters are said to feature a domed
bedroom and a sunken bath. Neighbors are nervous
about 3HO's expensive land purchases in the area.

Less visible than the cymbal-clanging Hare Krishnas,
the 3HO disciples rival them in devotion. Men and
women alike follow the Sikh traditions of not cutting
their hair and bearing symbolic daggers, combs and
bracelets. Ashram members rise at 3:30 a.m. to
practice yoga and meditate, sometimes while staring at
a picture of Bhajan. They often work twelve hours a
day on low salaries and skimpy diets at 3HO small
businesses, such as landscaping companies, shoe
stores, and quality vegetarian restaurants. Full-fledged
initiates follow Bhajan's every dictum on diet, medical
nostrums, child rearing, even orders to marry total
strangers. Guru Terath Singh Khalsa, who is his
lawyer and spokesman, says that Bhajan is "the
equivalent of the Pope."

For most of the converts, the discipline of Bhajanism
seems to have rilled a deep spiritual vacuum. Many are
in their mid-20s and come from upper-middle-class
homes. A number had been dependent upon LSD and
marijuana; the movement claims that all have broken
the habit.

The adherents are flushed with the rosy beauty of new
faith. "We got involved in Sikhism so we could re-
establish a direction in our lives based on real
principles," a young J ewish woman at a Los Angeles
ashram told TIME Correspondent J ames Wilde.

Chimed in an ex-Catholic who misses the Latin Mass:
"The demystification of the church turned me off."
Even a Massachusetts girl who has broken with the
movement says wistfully, "At the ashram we had the
nucleus of a real family. It was one of the most
beautiful things I have ever experienced."

Bhajan has important backers in India. High Priest
Guruchuran Singh Tohra, president of the management
committee for northern India's Sikh temples, confirms
that his council has given "full approval" to 3HO and
recognizes the yogi as a preacher. Tohra, however,
says that this does not mean Bhajan is the Sikh leader
of the Western Hemisphere, as he claims. The Sikhs
do not create such offices. Nor, Tohra adds, has the
committee given Bhajan the rarely bestowed title, Siri
Singh Sahib (the equivalent of saying "Sir" three
times), which he uses.

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Bhajan has his criticsand they are severe. Many
traditional Sikhs insist that yoga has no place in their
religion. Sikh Historian Trilochan Singh says Bhajan's
synthesis of Sikhism and Tantrism is "a sacrilegious
hodgepodge." Far more important, High Priest J aswant
Singh, a leader of the Sikhs in eastern India and
comparable in status to Bhajan Backer Tohra, last week
denounced Bhajan's claims. He and his council
professed to be "shocked" at Bhajan's "fantastic
theories." Yoga, Tantrism and the "sexual practices"
taught by Bhajan, the council declared, are "forbidden
and immoral."

There are more delicate matters at issue, many raised by
people who knew Bhajan when. J udith Tyberg,
respected founder of Los Angeles' East-West Center,
where Bhajan briefly gave courses, questions his
knowledge of Kundalini yoga. She fired him from her
faculty after three months for another reason which
she refuses to divulge.

Bhajan has repeatedly been accused of being a
womanizer. Colleen Hoskins, who worked seven
months at his New Mexico residence, reports that men
are scarcely seen there. He is served, she says, by a
coterie of as many as 14 women, some of whom attend
his baths, give him group massages, and take turns
spending the night in his room while his wife sleeps
elsewhere.

Colleen and her husband Philip, Bhajan's former
chancellor, who quit last year, say they could no longer
countenance Bhajan's luxurious life-style when so
many of his followers had to scrimp along. Filmmaker
Don Conreaux, an early apostle, says that originally the
yogi was "against titles, against disciples. Now he
teaches only obedience to him." When Philip Hoskins
quit last year, he says, Bhajan told him he would suffer
84 million reincarnations and be "reborn as a worm for
betraying your teacher."

The current chancellor insists that Bhajan "lives in a
moderate manner," and asserts that reports of illicit
affairs and of women in the yogi's bedroom are
"absolutely untrue." Yogi Bhajan himself was unwilling
to grant TIME an interview until he visits India this
month with a group of disciples for a Sikh festival.
When he arrives there, the "Supreme Authority" of the
Sikh religion in the Western world may have to answer
a few questions from his fellow Sikhs about the kind of
religion he is preachingand practicing.
[Courtesy: Time Inc. Find this article at:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,91
5413,00.html

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THE STORY OF MY LIFE
Sun, May 09, 2010, 1:58 pm // Kamalla Rose Kaur

In 1973, age 18, after spending my flowerchild years
protesting the Vietnam War and the ways of the
military industrial complex, I suddenly up and joined a
yoga commune. I wore all white and a turban for two
decades and taught large Kundalini Yoga classes in
Silicon Valley during the1980s. We taught New Age
silliness as the Sikh religion while ignorant of Sikh
theology, history and politics. I was a very lowly
member of Yogi Bhajan's group - thankfully - rarely in
contact with the Master. I lived fairly independently on
the fringe of Yogi Bhajan's empire.

After leaving Yogi Bhajan's group, age 37, I kept
investigating it and soon started an Internet forum for
former students. I returned to college in Religious
Studies, focusing on Sikhi, and I recently graduated
with a Creative Writing degree, age 54. Meanwhile my
journalism education, my basic training and field work
comes from being a secret source. I've worked closely
with excellent reporters off and on for many years -
linking them to contacts, acting as scout and translator,
watching how they work. J ournalists discover me on
the web, publishing documents and gathering
testimony, or I tip them. Usuallly they write articles
about one rotten hair in the hairball, not the whole big
tangled dirty abusive mess wrapped tight in fine white
cloth.

My story involves a Homeland Security funded
security guard company, New Mexico's Governor
and recent Presidential candidate, Bill Richardson,
the late CIA mastermind James Jesus Angleton and
his daughters, India's Operation Blue Star,
Madonna and Courtney Love and more!

Yogi Bhajan died in 2004 and now his family and
students are at war in Oregon courts over money and
power. Today, Mother's Day, May 9, 2010, my story
hit the front page of Eugene's Register Guard with two
articles: See links below:

Related Links:

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->Yogi's legacy in question
->Rift Threatens Yogi Bhajan business empire

YOGIS LEGACY IN QUESTION
FORMER FOLLOWERS SAY HE ABUSED
HIS POSITION FOR POWER, MONEY AND
SEX
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BY SHERRI BURI MCDONALD
Posted to Web: Sunday, May 9, 2010 12:14AM
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A slow, painful awakening led Premka Kaur Khalsa, a
top secretary in Yogi Bhajans Sikh organization for
almost 20 years, to leave the religious group in 1984,
she said. Premka Khalsa, 66, said she could no longer
participate because of the inconsistencies she said she
had witnessed between the yogis behavior and his
teachings the deception and abuse of power. In
1986, she sued Yogi Bhajan and his Sikh organizations,
settling out of court. In court papers, she alleged that
the married yogi had sexually and physically assaulted
her, that he was sexually involved with other secretaries

and that, as the head of his administration, she worked
long hours for little or no pay. The organizations
religious leaders vehemently deny those allegations.
Its business leaders did not respond to requests for
comment for this story.

Kamalla Rose Kaur, 55, another former member of
Yogi Bhajans 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy
Organization) who wrote for a grass-roots newsletter
in the community, said a light switched on for her
when she was researching and writing about religious
groups and thought, Hey, were acting a lot like a
cult.

Former member Guru Bir Singh Khalsa, 60, who had
been appointed a lifetime minister by Yogi Bhajan,
said he received a wake-up call in the early 1990s,
when Sue Stryker, then an investigator with the
Monterey County District Attorneys office, laid out
evidence linking members of his spiritual community
to criminal activity. Stryker, now retired, said a
member of Yogi Bhajans Sikh community pleaded
guilty and served time in prison for a telemarketing
scam that bilked seniors out of hundreds of thousands
of dollars.

These and other ex-members of Yogi Bhajans
organization say they arent surprised by events
unfolding now, six years after his death. Legal
disputes threaten to splinter the community.
Allegations of the yogis past wrongdoing are
resurfacing. And the future of the Sikh organizations
businesses are in question. The outcome will ripple far
beyond the religious group, whose companies have
become intertwined with the local economy and
business community.

In Multnomah County Circuit Court, the groups
religious leaders are suing the groups business leaders
over control of the communitys multimillion dollar
businesses, including Golden Temple natural foods in
Eugene and Akal Security in New Mexico.
Organizations/cults that have charismatic leaders and
their followings, once their charismatic leader dies,
this is generally the kind of thing that occurs, Premka
Khalsa said. Its the meltdown of a cult, said
Kamalla Kaur, who spent nearly 20 years in 3HO, and
now runs an Internet forum for ex-members. They
actually kept it together longer than we expected.

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Steven Hassan, a Massachusetts-based author,
counselor and former leader of the Moon cult in the
1970s, said he has counseled about two dozen former
3HO members, including leaders, over the years. The
group, from my point of view, was always about power
and money, he said. (Yogi) Bhajan is the
consummate cult leader. By not specifying someone
to take over, there often are these kinds of political
battles and meltdowns people basically being greedy
like Yogi Bhajan was and wanting more of a slice for
themselves.

Attorney J ohn McGrory, who represents the religious
leaders in the Multnomah case, said his clients strongly
disagree with the description of their organization as a
cult. They believe very strongly that its a religion, he
said. They practice and follow it, and they are
ministers. The proof, he said, is in the thousands of
adherents who still practice it. McGrory said the real
source of the discord in the community appears to be
that the assets Yogi Bhajan built up over the years are
being taken for private use, with the blessing of the
managers the yogi appointed to safeguard them.

Gary Roberts, attorney for the business leaders, has said
theyve done nothing wrong and have acted in the
interests of the Sikh community. When a founder of an
organization, or the head of a family, passes away,
disputes among successors are common, said Krishna
Singh Khalsa, a Eugene Sikh for 40 years. Theres
nothing spiritual or charismatic or cultlike about that,
he said. Its simply where interests clash.

Religious leaders voice concerns
A year before he died, Yogi Bhajan established the
Unto Infinity board to oversee the network of
businesses, property and educational and spiritual
nonprofits. Members include Golden Temple CEO
Kartar Singh Khalsa and three of the yogis former
secretaries: Sopurkh Kaur Khalsa, Siri Karm Kaur
Khalsa, and Peraim Kaur Khalsa. Kartar Khalsa and
Peraim Khalsa are domestic partners.

In the years leading up to the Multnomah lawsuit, the
groups religious leaders expressed concern that the
business leaders, the Unto Infinity members, had
abandoned the groups orthodox beliefs, which include
not cutting ones hair, eating a vegetarian diet and
abstaining from alcohol.

(Is it any wonder that Kartar and Peraim, Controlling members of Yogi
Bhajan's "Unto Infinity Board",are wearing circus masks in the above
photo?)http://cirrus.mail-list.com/khalsa-council/Kartar-Peraim.2-10.jpg

In court documents, the religious leaders allege that
the Unto Infinity members acknowledged in 2008 that
they no longer practiced those core beliefs. Unto
Infinity members did not respond to Register-Guard
interview requests. But in March 2009, when the
Khalsa Council, an international group of Sikh
ministers, asked them whether they had cut their hair,
were no longer vegetarians, and drank alcohol, the
business leaders responded by letter, according to the
Khalsa Council. The letter said, among other things:
The questions raised are irrelevant to our roles and
responsibilities in the organization. We are not the
religious leaders of the organization; we were given
administrative and financial authority and
responsibility.

The Unto Infinity members wrote that they had made
many sacrifices while the yogi was alive and that now
theyre applying more kindness into our personal
lives. We have learned the importance of factoring
back into our lives more joy and balance as we
continue to serve this mission for the rest of our way
home, they wrote. The Unto Infinity members wrote
that if the religious authorities decided to narrowly
define what a Sikh Dharma minister is, we may not
continue to qualify. However, they noted, many
current ministers in Sikh Dharma have broken their
Sikh or minister vows, marital vows, and the laws of
our country and have remained ministers, adding that
that had been true even while Yogi Bhajan was alive.

Watching the business leaders back away from the
groups religious practices, some former members
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said, reminds them of what they experienced when they
decided to leave the group. You go through stages of
discovery of how you gave away your power and were
deceived, Premka Khalsa said. Once the person who
is defining your reality the charismatic leader
once hes not there continuing to enforce the beliefs,
then your eyes start to open, she said. You see things
in a different way, and it can be disillusioning. Premka
Khalsa said thats especially true for the yogis
secretaries, such as herself, who sacrificed much of
their lives to serve him. I met him at 25, she said. I
was 41 by the time I left, so my life of family, child
bearing and (being) productive in the world, that whole
piece was gone. Nothing was put into Social Security,
and I walked out with the clothes on my back. The
women in his inner circle were denied having a
personal relationship with any other men, she added.
Some of us wanted to get married and have children,
but we got sidetracked into agreeing to forego that with
the intention of serving something bigger than us.
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice.

Flaws noted by former members
The groups publications and Web sites praise Yogi
Bhajan as an advocate for world peace and as a spiritual
teacher who has helped improve the lives of hundreds
of thousands of people worldwide. A resolution passed
by Congress in 2005 after his death recognized the
yogi as a wise teacher and mentor, an outstanding
pioneer, a champion of peace and a compassionate
human being.

But Yogi Bhajan also had flaws, former members said.
He was a phenomenal yoga teacher, a phenomenal
spiritual man, said Guru Bir Khalsa, the former
lifetime minister who left the group after 18 years.
But the yogi sabotaged his own dream, he said.
Imposing at 6 foot 3 inches and 250 pounds, Yogi
Bhajan claimed humility, but had a weakness for
expensive jewelry, luxury cars and custom-designed
robes, former members said. He was a big
dichotomy, Premka Khalsa said. He was
tremendously charismatic. It just drew you in. You felt
held and you felt loved and you felt embraced and felt
part of something that was magnificent and bigger than
you, and always yummy. On the other side, he could
be devastatingly harsh and make decisions that seemed
so contrary to what he would preach and teach, she
said. He was all about power and he became a victim
of that experience, she said.

Lawsuits on assaults, inheritance
With his long white beard, white turban and white
robes, Yogi Bhajan advocated for world peace,
founding an annual Peace Prayer Day in 1985. But his
saintly public image contrasted starkly with his private
behavior, Premka Khalsa and other former secretaries
said. In her 1986 lawsuit, Premka Khalsa alleged that
Yogi Bhajan repeatedly physically and sexually
assaulted her from November 1968 to November
1984.
McGrory, the religious leaders attorney, said his
clients deny all the allegations in Premka Khalsas
lawsuit, which were never verified or substantiated.
In court papers, she alleged that the yogi was sexually
involved with various female followers, and that he
ordered her to coordinate his sexual liaisons, including
orgies, with other secretaries, which she refused to do.
The head of Yogi Bhajans administration, and an
editor and writer for his publications, Premka Khalsa
said she worked on average 10 hours a day, five days a
week. She alleged that she was paid $375 a month
only in her last three years with the group. It was
another part of how he kept us bound, she said. We
didnt have independent resources. He had a fleet of
cars one of which was mine to drive. And he had
properties to live on, but they werent mine. You had
few independent resources, so it made it hard to live
out on (your) own. He did that with lots of people.
Premka Khalsa alleged in her lawsuit that Yogi
Bhajan called her his spiritual wife, destined to
serve mankind by serving him in a conjugal
capacity. He said if she did so, he would care for
her for all of her natural life, she alleged.

When Yogi Bhajan died in 2004, his wife Bibiji
Inderjit was to inherit half of their community
property, and he designated that his half go to Staff
Endowment, a trust to support 15 female
administrative assistants. To receive her share, each
assistant had to live in accordance with the yogis
teachings and the Sikh Dharma Order, according to
court documents. If she didnt, her interest would be
cut to 2 percent, the court papers said.

Among the trust beneficiaries are Guru Amrit Kaur
Khalsa, a plaintiff, and Sopurkh Khalsa, a defendant,
in the Multnomah clash between the religious and
business leaders, according to court papers. McGrory
said his clients deny that the Staff Endowment was in
return for anything relating to Premka Khalsas
allegations.
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Yogi Bhajans estate still isnt settled. In legal
proceedings in New Mexico, the yogis widow argues
that she was not aware of large gifts and expenditures
her husband made while he was alive, and she wants an
accounting of them, which could result in a
determination that she is entitled to more of the
remaining estate, said Surjit Soni, the widows attorney.
He said the yogis widow does not begrudge or resist
in any shape or form the bequest of Yogi Bhajan to his
assistants We just have to figure out whats hers and
whats his and move on down the road.

Soni declined to comment on the sexual abuse
allegations. Responding to the unpaid labor allegations,
he said that many people volunteered their time to build
the organization. It started with little or no sources of
income and took the effort of a lot in the community
lovingly coming together to provide their services, he
said. They were doing it voluntarily. Nobody held a
gun to their head.

Another sexual abuse case against Yogi Bhajan, also
settled out of court, was filed by the younger sister of
Guru Amrit Khalsa, one of the yogis long-time
secretaries. Today, Guru Amrit Khalsa is one of the
groups two chief religious authorities, as well as one of
the religious leaders suing Golden Temple CEO Kartar
Khalsa and other business leaders. Through McGrory,
her attorney, she denied all allegations in her sisters
complaint.

The Register-Guards policy is not to name sexual
abuse victims without their permission. Guru Amrit
Khalsas sisters whereabouts are not known, and she
could not be reached for this story. In court documents,
she alleged that Guru Amrit Khalsa began trying to
entice her into Yogi Bhajans organization when she
was 11, and succeeded when she was 14. She said she
was with the group from 1975 to 1985. In her 1986
lawsuit, she alleged that starting in 1978, Yogi Bhajan
repeatedly physically and sexually assaulted her. The
lawsuit alleged that the yogi was sexually involved with
Guru Amrit Khalsa, as well as various other members
of his administrative staff. Guru Amrit Khalsas sister
also alleged that Yogi Bhajan did not compensate her
for skin and hair care products and snack foods she had
developed and turned over to him in 1983 and 1984,
after he had promised her an ownership stake or other
payment.

Truth is your identity
The allegations in these lawsuits contrast with the
public image of 3HO Sikhs in Eugene, who are widely
regarded as devout, hard workers who have built a
successful company that is a cornerstone of the natural
foods industry here.

Wha Guru being used sacriligiously for huge
profits by 3HO Sikhs.

"Five flavors and they're all nuts!"

"What did the magician say to the Wha Guru Chew?
Open sesame."

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Firsthand knowledge of the abuse was confined to the
yogis inner circle, Premka Khalsa and other former
members said. The Eugene community, in general, is
innocent and quite well intentioned, she said. Premka
Khalsa said she sued Yogi Bhajan to try to expose what
she called his lies and force him to change his behavior.
The greeting we all have is Sat Nam, Truth is your
identity, and I wanted him to stop lying, she said.
Premka Khalsa said she also wanted the rest of the
community to know about the abuse, and she wanted to
lend credibility to the complaint filed by Guru Amrit
Khalsas sister because she said she was appalled by
how badly she had been treated.

The suits were settled for undisclosed amounts, and
they didnt surface again until Guru Bir Khalsa, who
had become disillusioned after learning of the groups
ties to telemarketing fraud, retrieved them from the
archives of a New Mexico courthouse and put copies on
the Internet in 2002. Sikh means seeker of truth and
therefore I was just a seeker of truth, he said. The
reason I wanted to put those documents on the Internet
was to just turn the light on in the closet. Yogi Bhajan
had a dark side, and I think a lot of people dont want to
see it because of what that means about him, Guru Bir
Khalsa said. I know, for myself, I wasnt ready and
didnt want to see it. Its kind of tough when you think
youve invested as much as you have into something.

Most of the former members quoted in this article asked
to be referred to by the names they were using at the
time they were part of the Sikh community.
Copyright 2010 The Register-Guard, Eugene,
Oregon, USA

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RIFT THREATENS BUSINESS EMPIRE

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Posted to Web: Saturday, May 8, 2010 11:55PM
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When India-born Yogi Bhajan came to the United
States in 1968 to teach kundalini yoga, a revolution was
sweeping the nation. Young people were rebelling
against the status quo, protesting the Vietnam War,
and experimenting with free love, psychedelic drugs,
Eastern religions and communal living. Idealistic
young Americans flocked to Yogi Bhajans classes.
Ashrams focused on his teachings began to pop up
across the country, including in Eugene, Los Angeles,
and Espanola, N.M. the groups main compound.
Soon after his arrival, he founded a nonprofit group
3HO (Happy, Holy, Healthy Organization) and began
blending in Sikh teachings and practices. In 1972,
members of the fledgling Eugene ashram launched a
tiny bakery in Springfield, which they later donated to
the Sikh community. It grew into Golden Temple, an
anchor of Eugenes natural foods industry, and a major
local employer and charitable donor. The Eugene
ashram grew steadily, becoming the Northwest hub for
Yogi Bhajans brand of Sikhism. His adherents, with
turbans, flowing robes and leggings, became a
common sight.

Over the years, members of the ashram married,
bought homes, sent their children to local schools and
became part of the larger community. In 2004, Yogi
Bhajan died after devising a succession plan that split
control of the communitys religious life and its
business life including Golden Temple, now a
lucrative international producer of natural cereals and
tea based in Eugene. Six years later, a dispute over
who owns and controls the multimillion dollar
businesses has erupted into a court battle that is
fracturing the community. The fight in Multnomah
County Circuit Court has centered around the shift in
ownership of Golden Temple.

In 2007, CEO Kartar Singh Khalsa and five other
Golden Temple managers became majority owners of
the company, which previously had belonged to the
larger Sikh organization. Last week, sources
confirmed that Kartar Khalsa and the other owners
plan to sell the cereal business to a Chicago company.
Compounding the woes of the community and its
businesses are legal claims by the yogis widow
that have delayed the settling of the yogis estate and
that threaten Golden Temples continued use of the
Yogi brand. Amid all the rancor, many wonder
whether Yogi Bhajans brand of Sikhism will survive,
and what will happen to the businesses it spawned.

Membership declining
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At its peak in the 1970s, the Sikh community that Yogi
Bhajan inspired had up to 10,000 members, according
to published reports. Eugene was the Northwest hub of
the community, although smaller than other centers in
New Mexico and Los Angeles. Today, although down
from those peak numbers, it still has several thousand
members worldwide, the groups religious leaders
estimate in court papers. The group has about 100
adherents in the Eugene-Springfield area, one local
member estimates. Connie Elsberg, a sociology
professor at Northern Virginia Community College who
studied 3HO and wrote a book about female members,
said the court battles now being fought are a turning
point for the community and its businesses.
If Unto Infinity, the communitys board of business
leaders, maintains control of all of the businesses, then
I think there will be a great deal of bad feeling and
little willingness to compromise on either side, she
said. There will not be much funding for the religious
arm, and the religious branches will dwindle. But if
Unto Infinity agrees to provide sufficient funding to the
other branches, the organization may continue
relatively unchanged, with some decline in numbers,
Elsberg said.

Krishna Singh Khalsa, a longtime Eugene Sikh, said
Sikhs are learning from this experience. Were
developing new approaches and new methods of
governance, he said. This wont happen again, and
well continue to develop and create success. Theres
no question about that, and theres no fear about that.
Things were much simpler when Yogi Bhajan first
gathered his American flock, many of them hippies
engulfed in the drug culture. We stopped smoking
marijuana and started getting high on breathing, wrote
photographer Lisa Law, whose exhibit of 60s photos at
the Smithsonian includes a shot of Yogi Bhajan
teaching yoga outdoors in New Mexico. Enough of
being potheads. Now we could be healthy, happy and
holy.

Yogi Bhajans converts were attracted to a variation of
Sikhism that he created, incorporating kundalini yoga
and vegetarianism typically Hindu practices. He
taught them how to do a form of yoga and meditate. He
gave them Sikh names Singh the middle name for
men, Kaur for women, with the last name of
Khalsa. He encouraged them to start businesses and
work by the sweat of their brow. In some cases, he
told them where to live, arranged their marriages and
named their children.

His 3HO foundation describes its mission as to
practice and share the teachings of Yogi Bhajan so
that they may serve, inspire, and empower humanity to
be healthy, happy, and holy. Yogi Bhajans charisma
and the teachings he brought from India were very
appealing and kind of exotic to young Americans in
the 1960s, said Cameron Healy, a member of Yogi
Bhajans organization for 23 years. Healy was a
founder of the Springfield bakery that grew into
Golden Temple. He went on to establish Kettle Chips
in Salem in 1978.

There were a lot of Indian teachers gurus who
came (to the United States) because there was a void
to be filled with young people seeking different
spiritual values, he said. What made (Yogi Bhajan)
different is we could be householder yogis. We could
follow the teachings and practices get up early in
the morning and do (our) practices but also start
businesses and engage in life, engage in real work and
give back to the community, have a positive impact.
Healy said he left the group in 1994 because things
work for certain periods in our life and sometimes we
have to change and embrace new things. I had
experienced that cycle and was fulfilled with that, and
it was time to change. He said his experience with the
group was positive. The whole lifestyle has been
very, very positive for many people, Healy said.

As the movement grew, members started businesses to
create jobs and income for their ashrams. Some of
these ventures failed and vanished. Two became very
successful. Golden Temple rode a wave of growth in
the natural and organic foods market to become a
global cereal and tea producer with 280 employees in
the Eugene-Springfield area, 100 employees in
Europe, and $125 million in annual revenue. Akal
Security, founded in Espanola, N.M., in 1980, took off
after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, fueled
demand for increased security at government agencies
and military installations. It has annual revenue of
$700 million and 12,000 employees worldwide,
according to court documents filed last year.

Businesses at stake
Yogi Bhajan told The Register-Guard in 1997 that he
didnt worry about disarray after he died. Its not a
one-man show, he said of his Sikhism. Its a
religion. To describe whats happening now as
disarray would be putting it lightly. In their court
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battle, Sikh religious leaders accuse Kartar Khalsa and
the three other Unto Infinity business leaders of
wrongfully transferring 90 percent of the ownership of
Golden Temple to six company managers, including
Kartar Khalsa, leaving 10 percent owned by the Sikh
community.

The business leaders attorney has said they did nothing
wrong and that the restructuring was needed to keep
skilled managers. They were fulfilling the
responsibilities the yogi had given them, attorney Gary
Roberts said previously.

While the fight for control of Golden Temple continues,
both sides recently agreed to allow the sale of the
companys cereal division. The buyer, sources close to
the deal said, is a company owned by Wind Point
Partners, a Chicago private equity group. Under a court
order, sale proceeds will be held in escrow until the
Multnomah County lawsuit is resolved.

Golden Temple plans to continue to operate its Yogi tea
division, but trouble is brewing there. The yogis
widow sued in California in March alleging that Golden
Temple cannot use the Yogi brand without paying
royalties.

Golden Temple has asked the court to dismiss the
complaint and have it arbitrated in Portland.
Sherri Buri McDonald
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KHALSA VS KHALSA

A simmering lawsuit could decide the fate of a $1 billion
Sikh empire.
Santa Fe Reporter July 7/2010
By Corey Pein

The young woman locked the door to her office. In the
hall, a man was shouting. He began pounding on her
door. She knew who it was, and she knew what he
wanted. He wanted the keys.

The siege on the second floor was the most dramatic
moment of a coup, years in the making, that went down
seven months ago in dusty Espaola.
The modesty of the setting belies the stakes: control of
a large private army that has won more than $3.5 billion
in government contracts, ownership of a trans-Atlantic
natural foods empire and, not least, the fate of an
influential decades-old religious sect called Sikh
Dharma.

The sects founder, the late Yogi Bhajan, inspired
thousands of mostly white, middle-class men and
women to stop cutting their hair, put on turbans and
adopt a common surname: Khalsa.

Bhajan died in 2004. Soon after, his inner circle began
to splinter. The disputes were quiet at first. By Dec. 3,
2009, the divided loyalties could no longer be ignored.
It was on that day that Guru Kirin Kaur learned that
she and her colleagues had been given an ultimatum.
Over 14 yearsmost of her adult lifeKirin had
worked her way up to become chief financial officer of
Sikh Dharma International, the sects religious
nonprofit organization; now she, her coworkers, her
boss and the SDI board could either sign a new loyalty
oath, or find new jobs.
The demand came from Guruchander Singh, the sects
chief numerologist and manager of the administrative
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nonprofit, Sikh Dharma Stewardship. Kirin parked her
car outside a long, white building at Sikh Dharmas
picturesque Espaola campus. There in the gravel
parking lot, she claims, she met Guruchander.

He started to verbally assault me, accusing me of
stealing and yelling that I would be going to jail, she
writes in an email posted to an online Sikh forum.

He was extremely hostile, escalating into a violent
rage, and frankly, very scary. When another employee
tried to call the police, Guruchander allegedly said,
Hang up if you want to keep your job.

Kirin claims Guruchander followed her upstairs, where
she locked herself in her office. The next thing I knew
he was kicking at my door so hard the building shook,
she writes.

Hearing her colleagues enter the hall, Kirin opened her
door. Guruchander then barged inside, she claims,
making off with computers full of confidential
information. Later, she claims, he used her Social
Security number to convince a Santa Fe Wells Fargo
employee to put SDIs bank accounts under his control.
Then, he allegedly tried to have the locks changed.

A legal complaint filed later says Guruchander, who
also co-directs the Yoga Santa Fe studio on Llano
Street and serves on the state Board of Chiropractic
Examiners, behaved in a manner that was more akin to
a violent criminal than a supposedly peaceful Sikh.
Sikh Dharmas leading numerologist, Guruchander
Singh, serves on the New Mexico Board of
Chiropractic Examiners.

Kirin, Guruchander and others in the office that day
either ignored SFRs messages or declined comment for
this story. I have no response as the legal case is still
pending, Guruchander writes in an email to SFR.
Indeed, the action has moved to a courtroom 1,300
miles away, in Portland, Ore. A judge there will decide
who should control the late Bhajans business empire,
including the omnipresent Yogi tea brand and what may
be New Mexicos largest private company, Akal
Security.

Will control remain with the coup leadersthe Sikh
Dharma Stewardship and its parent company, Unto
Infinity of Oregonwhom Bhajan left in charge of the
sects business side? Or will it go to the former SDI
board, which includes Bhajans widow and others
entrusted with religious matters?
Neither side can claim total purity. Some leaders of the
former group have renounced key tenets of Sikh
Dharma, cut their hair and allegedly raised their own
salaries. A few in the latter group are connected to
long-standing charges of impropriety and
mismanagement.

Yet the stereotype of the bully in a business suit
creates some sympathy for the religious leaders, even
among those reluctant to take sides. I almost feel
sorry for the religious heads in Espaola, Kamalla
Rose Kaur, who runs an online forum for other ex-
followers of what she calls the Yogi Bhajan cult,
tells SFR. Theyre really the underdogs, at the
moment. Lucky for them, long odds are nothing new
to the followers of Sikh Dharma.

The future Yogi Bhajan had what The Times of India
calls a fairly privileged childhood. He was born
Harbhajan Singh Puri in 1929 in a part of British India
that is now Pakistan. After college, he spent 15 years
working as a customs official.

In 1968, he moved to North America. Long before
Walmart began selling $20 yoga mats, Bhajan
introduced Americans to the Hindu practice of
Kundalini yoga, blended with his own take on
Sikhism, a 500-year-old religion with some 26 million
followers, most of whom live in the Punjab region.
Hippies loved it.

Bhajan called his new community 3HOthe healthy,
happy, holy organizationand selected a remote
headquarters: Espaola. Yogi Bhajan used to say,
God lives everywhere, but his address is in New
Mexico, Avtar Hari Singh, a former Hollywood
executive who joined Sikh Dharma 17 years ago, tells
SFR.

From the outset of his American adventures, Bhajan
cultivated powerful connections. Among the earliest
3HO devotees were the wife and two daughters of
J ames Angleton, the late Central Intelligence Agency
deputy director who inspired the 2006 Matt Damon
spy flick, The Good Shepherd. One daughter, Siri Hari
Kaur Angleton-Khalsa, showed off her stunning home,
garden and pool north of Santa Fe to Architectural
Digest last year.

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Early on, Bhajan had his share of spooked critics
Bogi Yogi, some folks called himand there were
the usual charges of cronyism, moral turpitude, etc, the
Times of India writes in his obituary. But it was his
business enterprise, as much as his religious teaching,
that was striking.

Indeed, financial successand Bhajans alliances with
powerful politicians and Hollywood celebritieshelped
the community gain the acceptance of its neighbors.
Like the prosperity gospel of some Christian
megachurches, Sikh Dharma praises the cultivation of
wealth.

Bhajan also embraced Sikhisms martial tradition. As
opposed to the philosophy of turn the other cheek
not to denigrate thatit is the philosophy of protecting
those who cant protect themselves, Avtar Hari says.
And so the private security business, which combines
steady income with paramilitary discipline, was a
natural choice to sustain the community.

Bhajans followers established Akal Security in 1980.
One founder, Gurutej Singh, was famously booted by
the New Mexico State Police for refusing to doff his
turban and shave. Yogi Bhajan told him, Why dont
you start a security company, and theyll work for
you, Avtar Hari recalls. In time, thats pretty much
what happenedbut success wouldnt come easy.

The 1980s were not a great time to be Sikh. In J une,
1984, the Indian Army raided the religions most sacred
site, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, in search of
a separatist leader.

Weeks after the siege of the temple, Bhajan summoned
members of the Sikh diaspora to join him in Espaola
to formulate a joint program of action, The New York
Times reported; Indian Sikhs who had long disparaged
Bhajan and 3HO Sikhism accepted the invitation.

Four months later, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
was murdered by her Sikh bodyguards. Bhajan
condemned the murder. The ensuing riots left thousands
of Sikhs dead. In 1985, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation announced that it had foiled another
alleged Sikh terrorist plot to assassinate Gandhis son
on US soil.
Today, Indias prime minister is himself Sikh, but it
took decades for the religion to shed the terrorist
label, which was once thrown as casually toward Sikhs
as it is now toward Muslims. (For what its worth,
Avtar Hari says Sikhs are more like J ews, resented for
their success.)

Yogi Bhajan, who inaugurated an annual Peace
Prayer Day in 1986, was never publicly linked to any
criminality during this periodwith one strange
exception.

In 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration
indicted a Bhajan deputy based in Virginia, named
Gurujot Singh. Agents charged that he had tried to
smuggle some 20 tons of marijuana into the US from
Thailand via ship. He also had allegedly asked an
informant for help obtaining illegal weapons,
including pistols with silencers, automatic rifles,
grenade launchers and a 50-caliber machine gun.

According to The Los Angeles Times, he entered a
plea that admitted no guilt, but acknowledged the
prosecution could likely prove its case. Federal
Bureau of Prisons records confirm Gurujot Singh
Khalsapreviously known as Robert A Taylor, and
not to be confused with a younger man with a similar
name in Espaolawas incarcerated for an unknown
time, and released.

Akal co-founder Gurutej Singh Khalsa is a plaintiff in
the lawsuit, but declined to speak for this article.
SFR reached Gurujot twice on his cell phone; both
times, he said he was driving and to call back later.
SFR called at the suggested time, but Gurujot did not
return the message.
In a lengthy recent interview with an Indian journalist,
Gurujot casts the 1988 indictment as police
entrapment. Gurujot claims police placed an informant
in his temple, and covertly recorded the informants
idea to smuggle drugs, which he flatly rejected.

In the same interview, Gurujot blames white
supremacists for having posted the false indictment
online in an effort to undermine his businesses. The
interviewer, Khushwant Singh, writes that since
Gurujot was part of Akal Security at the time, the
companys enemies hoped to tar it by association.

After Akal won an airport security contract in Hawaii
in 1999, someone sent anonymous letters to state
officials, evidently alluding to Gurujots indictment.
An Akal spokesperson told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
the confusion stems from a 10-year-old drug arrest on
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the East Coast of someone who bears the same last
nameKhalsabut has no relationship to our
company or religion.

Despite that disavowal, other Sikh Dharma
organizations that are supported by Akal still embrace
Gurujot. Today, he teaches 3HO-approved Kundalini
yoga in Virginia, where he makes a living running
outsourcing and call center businesses with operations
in Pakistan and South Africa. He also served as board
president of the 3HO Foundation of Washington, DC, at
the time of Yogi Bhajans death, the most recently
available federal tax records show.

The revelation of the charges against Gurujot and other
sensational accusations led to the sects first exodus of
members in the mid-1990s, according to Kamalla Rose,
an ex-3HO follower who now lives in Washington
state. Todays split in Sikh Dharma harks back to that
time, she says, in that the newly empowered business-
side leaders are trying to cut out the crooks and the
bad wood.

Within the past few years, Gurujot has publicly signed
himself as secretary in chief of Sikh Dharma
International, but the organizations lawyer tell SFR he
was not on the board as of last years coup.

In any case, Gurujot was among the first to sign an
online petition supporting its ousted board members in
Espaola, and against the Sikh Dharma business leaders
who took control of SDI and Akal Security.
The new millenium brought another wave of
discrimination against people wearing long beards and
turbans.

Americas bigots may have frequently confused Sikh
cab drivers for Al Qaeda sympathizers, but the US
government was more discerning. Indeed, the worst
terrorist attacks in US history turned out to be great for
Sikh Dharmas flagship business.

Two weeks after the 9.11 attacks, Akal co-founder and
President Daya Singh Khalsa met George W Bush at
the White House to discuss new airport security
measures, as well as anti-Sikh discrimination.

Today, Akals best customers are the departments of
Defense and Homeland Security. According to a federal
contracts website, Akal and its subsidiary Coastal
International Security have received at least $3.5
billion in federal awards since 2000.

Akals charges include federal courthouses, military
bases and US embassies abroad. On top of that, Akal
profits from untallied millions in contracts with state
and local governments across the country.

Akal co-founder and President Daya Singh refuses to
disclose numbers. We take advantage of our privately
held status, he tells SFR. Estimates vary, but Avtar
Hari says Akal has $500 million in annual revenues
and approximately 15,000 employees.

The company boasts reams of client testimonials and
awards. But, as might be expected for so large an
enterprise, Akals record also has some blotches. In
2003, Akal won the access control contract for Fort
Hood, Texas, after the Pentagon began deploying the
National Guard to Afghanistan and Iraq. Akal lost the
contract four years later, having paid $18 million to
settle a federal lawsuit that claimed the company had
failed to hire enough properly trained guards. (In a
sense, Akal lucked out by losing the Fort Hood
contract before the shooting massacre on base last
year.)

In 2007, the City of Phoenix fined Akal for repeated
contract violations, including airport guards sleeping
on the job. And in 2009, guards at the federal
courthouse in San Francisco sued Akal for retaliation
after they complained about coworkers being drunk
and high on duty and, in one case, waving a gun
around.

Obviously, the Sikh Dharma company isnt
responsible for the more controversial policies of its
biggest client, the federal government, but it has
proved happy to carry them out.

For instance, Akal guards illegal immigrants on
government-chartered flights from Tucson, Ariz., to
Mexico City, working under the deportation
contractor, CSI Aviation Services of Albuquerque.
CSI was founded by former New Mexico Republican
Party Chairman Allen Weh. This year, Akal gave Weh
$2,000 for his failed gubernatorial campaign.
Such generosity toward politicians surely aided the
companys rise from a small, local outfit whose
contracts once specified Sikh guards only, to one of
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the biggest players in private security, in league with
Wackenhut and Blackwater.

In New Mexico, the companys best allies are
Democrats. It has given thousands to the gubernatorial
bid of Lt. Gov. Diane Denish. Attorney General Gary
King, who runs the states key investigative office, also
has benefited.

Akal has been one of Gov. Bill Richardsons biggest
donors, kicking $46,000 to his political committees
over the years. A handful of other Sikh entrepreneurs
and businesses, including Golden Temple of Oregon,
have contributed another $23,000. Richardson
appointed Akal co-founder Gurutej Singh to the Private
Investigations Advisory Board, which regulates security
companies.
When Bhajan died, Richardson ordered state flags
flown at half-staff. Later, the governor visited Espaola
to dedicate Yogi Bhajan Memorial Highway. It
intersects Interstate 285 at the Trans-Lux Dreamcatcher
Cinema and winds eastward, past the golden dome of
the Sikh Dharma temple.

When SFR visited in late J une, the placid green campus
of Sikh Dharma was deserted. Most of the 200-some
Sikh families who live in the area were miles away in
the hills, celebrating the summer solstice.

SFR came at the invitation of Avtar Hari, a genial,
scholarly type who abandoned an entertainment and
real estate career to follow another path. No one is
more surprised than I am when I look in the mirror, he
says. I have a lot of three-piece suits in the closet.
Former SDI Board Chairman Avtar Hari Singh is the
lead plaintiff in the lawsuit to regain control of the
organization.

As it is, his attire consists of a white robe and turban,
only shades brighter than his long white beard. Years
ago, as Arthur Warshaw, he was president of Time-Life
Television. As Avtar Hari, he put his Harvard Business
School degree to use as board chairman of Sikh
Dharma Internationaluntil Dec. 3, 2009, when he was
stripped of the title. He provides a tour of the temple,
which features a striking mural of the Virgen de
Guadalupe sandwiched between two meditating gurus.

Outside, as monsoon clouds gather, Avtar Hari points
across the grassy lawn to the headquarters of Akal
Security. It seems odd that the squat, prefab-looking
structure a stones throw from the temple houses a
half-billion-dollar company that employs a number of
people with high-level security clearances.

But then, Akal rarely seeks to draw attention to itself
or its religious origins. Golden Temple, the food
company in Oregon, takes a different tack, printing
yoga poses and religious sayings on boxes of Yogi tea.
(In 2008, the Sikh Dharma business leaders in Oregon
removed Yogi Bhajans picture from the packaging.)
With no outside equity investment, Avtar Hari says,
these two companies grew to have a combined annual
revenue of $800 million. And the profits have allowed
Sikh Dharma to sustain its membership and spread the
word.

Yogi Bhajan always intended that these companies
would provide jobs for our children and anyone else
who wanted to work in a conscious business, Avtar
Hari says.

Most Akal employees are not Sikh, but some children
of Sikh Dharma will find work in the Khalsa family
business. In a video posted online, Akal co-founder
Gurutej Singh leads dozens of youths in a tug-of-war
type challenge at Camp Miri Piri, Sikh Dharmas
youth academy in India.

Some fear the leaders of the coup will sell off the
training camp, as they did the cereal division of
Golden Temple earlier this year.

The lawsuit in Portlandwhose key plaintiffs include
Akals Gurutej and Avtar Hari of SDIseeks to
prevent further deterioration of the Sikh Dharma
organization. Until the case is resolved, Multnomah
County Circuit J udge Leslie Roberts has barred the
business leaders in Oregon from selling off Akal. In a
nutshell, the religious leaders want to recover damages
and remove the business-side leaders from their
positions of power.

The plaintiffs claim the business leaders have
abandoned Sikhism and taken to living in high style,
while depriving SDIand by extension its
beneficiaries in the communityof some $50 million
in property, stock and monetary donations. Worse still,
the plaintiffs say, the business leaders fired 25 Sikh
Dharma nonprofit employees and, beginning last
summer, tried to push Bhajans widow, Bibiji Inderjit
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Kaur Puri, out of her lifetime appointment to the SDI
board.

Each year, Akal and Golden Temple donate millions,
perhaps tens of millions, of dollars to the bevy of
nonprofits inspired by Yogi Bhajan. The nonprofits
include the 3HO Foundation, which stages festivals and
other events; the Kundalini Research Institute; and SDI,
the authority on matters of doctrine.

In 2003, aware that Bhajans long illness might soon
claim his life, he and his advisers began planning for
the future of Sikh Dharma. In so doing, they established
a new set of organizations with interlocking
relationships.

A chart included with the Portland lawsuit lays out this
corporate structure. Near the top is Unto Infinity LLC, a
for-profit Oregon company. Unto Infinity ultimately
owns both Akal Security of New Mexico and a portion
of Golden Temple in Oregon.

Unto Infinity also controls the nonprofit Sikh Dharma
Stewardship, run by the numerologist Guruchander
Singh, and by extension SDI, which he allegedly
stormed last December. (The SDS website says it
replaced SDIs board due to poor financial reporting
and unspecified conflict-of-interest concerns; the
Portland lawsuit was first filed nine weeks before the
December incident, and followed many months of
escalating tensions.)

Advised by his longtime secretary, Sopurkh Kaur,
Bhajan signed off on this structure, which left the
business and administrative leaders of Sikh Dharma in a
position superior to that of the religious leaders.
Sopurkh is a defendant in the lawsuit. The lead
defendants, however, are Kartar Singh and Preaim
Kaur, both directors of Unto Infinity. Kartar and Preaim
now live in Oregon and are a romantic couple,
according to multiple sources.

The plaintiffs allege that these defendants formulated a
plan to renounce the faith and their orthodox practices
before they obtained these positions of power.
Whatever their motivation, top Unto Infinity leaders
today bear little relation to their old, turbaned selves;
photos from recent fundraisers in Portland show a
beardless Kartar and a dancing Preaim.
Kartar, a Golden Temple executive, has allegedly
increased his pay from $127,000 to $800,000 a year.
No one claims Yogi Bhajan was less than lucid when
he approved the new corporate structure. But did he
expect all this discord?

I believe he wanted to see all the organizations
flourish and continue in the way they did when he was
alive, Avtar Hari says.

The defendants attorney, Gary Roberts, did not return
SFRs call. In an interview with the Eugene, Ore.,
Register-Guard, which has covered the case closely,
Roberts suggests Avtar Hari, Gurutej and the other
plaintiffs are merely jealous that Bhajan didnt leave
them in charge.

The defendants say they have followed Bhajans
wishes, and are within their rights to lay off anyone
they please. In a court filing, the business sides
lawyers liken the plaintiffs to Girl Scouts and their
complaint to the following:

The Girl Scouts have reduced funding at the same
time that they increased their officers salaries. So I
want to sue the directors of the National Girl Scouts
for damages, overturn all of their decisions, remove all
of their directors and have new directors chosen by
people I like.

Bhajans widow, Bibiji, did not respond to SFRs
email. A lawsuit she filed against Golden Temple in
federal court to recover royalties lost following the
removal of Yogi Bhajans image from Yogi tea boxes
was dismissed on J une 9 when a judge said the parties
should enter arbitration.

The late yogis son-in-law, Bhai Sahib Satpal Singh,
tells SFR in an email that he isnt taking sides. I am
praying that good sense may prevail on both sides and
the situation is settled amicably, he writes. I have
suggested to all sides that if they are unable to come to
a resolution, rather than go [through] the courts, they
must first try to involve the Supreme Sikh leadership
from India as mediators.

Stating the obvious, he writes that lawsuits and
disputes will certainly have a negative effect on the
organizations started by Yogi Bhajan.

Akal President Daya Singh Khalsa met with George W
Bush shortly after the 9.11 attacks.
Gurutej Singh did not return SFRs call. The other
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Akal Security co-founder, Daya Singh, downplays the
effects of a possible change in his companys
ownership.

Whether it ends up changing the people on some board
seats, none of that would really have any substantial
impact on the company, as far as we can tell, he says.

If nothing else, the lawsuits show how much Yogi
Bhajan personally held his community together.
Kamalla Rose, the ex-3HO member and gadfly,
believes the sect is unraveling. Everybodys growing
up and they may be deprogrammingparticularly the
Unto Infinity group, she says. Reflecting on her time
as a flower child 3HO follower, she is, in a way,
grateful:
I wanted to move into a commune. A lot of us did. We
were looking for cults, she says. Im just glad I didnt
join Scientology.

While the court case drags on, the Sikh Dharma rank
and file is torn. It feels like our Dharma has a huge
wound that is bleeding profusely, J eevan J oti Kaur, a
local yoga instructor, writes in a recent letter to
Guruchander Singh, the numerologist and Sikh Dharma
Stewardship leader. People worked for our businesses
for years Dont they deserve to know that it wasnt
all in vain?

In his written response, Guruchander and the SDS
board urge community members to be patient and try
to remain neutral. In the meantime, people should
focus their divine energy on something positive.
Our prayer is that, when the litigation is finished, there
will be a chance to come together, the letter says.
Ultimately, whether or not that happens is in the hands
of the Guru. SFR

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SIKHS ALARMED ABOUT USE/SALE OF
THE GOLDEN TEMPLE BRAND

Sikhs are dismayed over Hearthside Food's use of the Sikhs' central
place of worship, the Golden Temple, for commercial profit.

J uly 13, 2010 (MMD Newswire)
The recent sale of the Golden Temple brand to
Hearthside Foods with $700 million in total revenue,
ignites Sikhs' unease over what they claim was Yogi
Bhajan's commercialization and trivialization of their
religion. Amidst the complex battle between Bhajan's
family and students in Oregon courts over the control
of Bhajan's empire, the Golden Temple name and logo
recently sold to Hearthside Foods upsetting many
mainstream Sikhs. Hardev Singh Shergill, editor of the
Sikh Bulletin explains:

"The Golden Temple is the English name for Darbar
Sahib located in Amritsar India. The Golden Temple is
a central Gurdwara (house of worship) for Sikhs
everywhere. Yogi Bhajan was dead wrong to use the
Golden Temple to sell breakfast cereal, to feed his
wallet and ego. Sikhism teaches to never mix faith
with commerce. Sikh teachings are offered freely. No
one should profit when sharing the Sikh religion. And
no one should trivialize other's religious traditions,
much less profit from cheapening us. The executives at
Hearthside Foods are innocent and ignorant. They
know nothing about Sikhism. They are just more
victims of Bhajan's cult."

"We ask Hearthside Foods to respect Sikhs and stop
selling the Golden Temple brand. We've started an
online petition to ask Hearthside to stop using the
Golden Temple brand name," says Gursant Singh,
editor of Gurmukhyoga.com, a former Yogi Bhajan
student who left Bhajan's group after travelling to
India and meeting with mainstream Sikhs there. "I
didn't know I was in a cult. Yogi Bhajan was more like
J im J ones than a Sikh. It is important to repair the
damage he caused. "If a company used a brand name
like "Vatican Vermicelli" or "Paul's Last Supper
Wine", you'd find religious people everywhere rising
up in protest. Give the Golden Temple back. Sikhs
welcome Hearthside employees to visit Darbar Sahib,
or any Gurdwara, where people are fed delicious food
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free of charge daily. Eat at the Golden Temple. Don't
eat The Golden Temple."

"The Golden Temple should not be branded.
Gurdwaras, including The Golden Temple, are places
of worship; they are to stay open, and to feed people,"
says Harmander Singh of Sikhs of England, coach of
Fauja Singh, 99 year old marathon runner, and
London's 'Sikhs In the City' team. "Many Sikhs have
arrived in the West since 1984, escaping from religious
persecution and genocide in India. We feel shame over
how Yogi Bhajan conned young people - we Sikhs live
by the principles of remembering God, working hard
and sharing with others - nowhere is there any
promotion of sex tantra and yoga gimmicks in the Sikh
scriptures. Rather, for Sikh's perhaps the most sinful act
imaginable is to fleece innocents in the name of the
Divine."

Back in the early 1970s when Yogi Bhajan and his
students named their Eugene Oregon bakery, The
Golden Temple and started selling Wahe Guru Chews
(Waheguru is Sikh's primary word for the Divine,
literally, 'wondrous teacher') there were few Sikhs in
the West to protest. Dr. Trilochan Singh in his book
Sikhism and Tantric Yoga written in 1977 stated, "In
England last year a firm advertised some blue jeans as
J esus J eans. The whole religious world of England rose
in one protest and stopped the manufacture of these
jeans. The word Golden Temple has become an
instrument of commercial affairs of Yogi Bhajan."
Dr. Iqbal Singh who lives a few miles from of the
Golden Temple in India and has written five books on
Sikh history agrees, "The Golden Temple is not a brand
name for any trade. This is the Almighty's temple...a
place of devotion, equality, love, service, and protection
for all, not to be used for commercial profit."

Media Contacts:
Hardev Singh Shergill, editor@sikhbulletin.com
Gurusant Singh, London UK Ph. 011447507897373
Gurusant@hotmail.com Gurusant.com Gurmukhyoga.com
Harmander Singh from Sikhs in England
harmanders@btinternet.com

Sign the petition:
Hearthside Foods should respect the Sikh Religion and
stop selling the Golden Temple brand:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/goldentemple/

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FOURTEEN POINTS
In Indian friend of mine spent some time with the 3HO
Sikhs in Espanola when he worked at Los Alamos in
New Mexico. His comment was that even though they
looked like they were doing the same things as he was,
they were doing them for completely different reasons.

I believe that this is what confuses most Indians who
look at them and see Sikhs and wonder what all the
fuss is about. But you are not allowed to scratch the
surface and see what they really believe.
In April of 2005 there was a discussion on this subject
over on GLZ. There were three 3HO Sikhs (all three
being ministers) participating in the discussion. There
were numerous exchanges and the following was a
post of mine. A Sikh from Singapore responded that if
he didn't hear a categorical denial on all 14 points he
would have to take a completely different view of
these peoples beliefs. There was complete silence from
the three because they couldn't deny any of it.

Wahe Guru ji ka Khalsa || Wahe Guru ji ki Fateh ||

The following is a list of statements, all of which are
true. After you read each statement ask yourself the
question: "Who has distorted Sikhi?"

1. Yogi Bhajan taught that you had to make a
connection with a living spiritual teacher.

2. Yogi Bhajan taught that you should meditate on his
photograph.

3. Yogi Bhajan taught that the reason that Sikhs wear
turbans is to adjust the plates in your skull and thus
regulate your electro-magnetic energy.

4. Yogi Bhajan taught that the reason that Sikhs wear
Kacha is that the pressure of the Kachcha on your
thighs stimulates your liver.

5. Yogi Bhajan taught that you should have a photo of
the golden idol of Sri Chand, that is outside the
Gurdwara in Espanola, in your home.

6. Yogi Bhajan taught that chanting certain Shabads
bring certain results:

a. Mayraa Man Lochai Gur Darshan Taa-ee: This
brings prosperity, multified a thousand-fold squared.
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b. The Twenty-Ninth Pauree of J ap J i: This protects you
from your enemies by simply vaporizing those who
wish you harm.

c. The Twenty-Second Pauree of J ap J i: This brings you
victory in legal battles.

d. The Thirteenth Pauree of J ap J i: This gives you the
occult knowledge of infinity.
e. The Twenty-Fifth Pauree of J ap J i: All your needs
are pre-fulfilled. Prosperity, virtue, estate, and wealth
are yours without asking.

7. Yogi Bhajan taught that Gurmukhi is a magical,
mystical language in that by chanting, reciting, or
singing, your tongue is pressing on certain pressure
points in your upper palate and thus certain glands in
your brain are stimulated to secrete hormones, resulting
in a kundalini high.

8. Yogi Bhajan taught that Anand Sahib was the
ultimate kundalini experience because for each 5
Paurees, your kundalini would pass through a
corresponding chakra. 40 Paurees divided by 5 equals
the 8 chakras. This also holds true for J ap J i.

9. Yogi Bhajan taught that abortion was all right if it
was done before the 120th day, when the soul entered
the womb.

10. Yogi Bhajan taught that you could be liberated in
40 days if you practiced kundalini yoga.
11. Yogi Bhajan taught that he would take on all the
karma of his students and that the reason that he was so
sick was that his students had a lot of bad karma.

12. Yogi Bhajan taught he should name everyone, not
by consulting the Guru, but by using astrology and
numerology.

13. Yogi Bhajan taught that he could read auras and
even read your destiny.

14. Yogi Bhajan taught that when he died, only his
physical body would be gone. His soul would then
reside in his subtle body which would hover over his
students, while he still taught and led tantric. To his
students he would not be dead but immortal.

This is only a sample of what Yogi Bhajan taught.
After reading the above statements, again ask yourself:
"Who has distorted Sikhi?"

Chardi Kalaa
Amar Prakash Singh

International Human Rights Organisation (IHRO), of
the Indian subcontinent, is a NGO, with national focus
and overseas lobby network. It agitates both in India
and internationally.

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FAKE IT AND YOU 'II MAKE IT!
Devinderjit Singh
St. Catherine's College, Oxford (October, 2004!
[From Sikh Bulletin J anuary 2005]

In the light of Yogi Harbhajan Singh's recent
death in Espanola, New Mexico, USA, and the
associated eulogies, I felt that it might be
interesting to hear about my experiences with that
community. Although I was never a member of
3HO (the 'Happy, Healthy and Holy Organisation
'), I was a bemused, bewildered and often irritated
bystander at Espanola for a year or so in the late
1980's.

I'm an English Sikh, with Punjabi ancestry, and
worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Los
Alamos National Laboratory for three years.
Finding a community of Sikhs nearby (and in the
desert at that!) was a pleasant surprise, and I was
naturally drawn to attend the Sunday Diwans and
participate in the Kirtan. The discipline and
dedication of the Espanola Sikhs was very
humbling, and I was also impressed with the
tradition of distributing Shabad sheets so that
people could join in the worship more easily; it
was certainly much better organised than the
general chaos I had been used to at most
Gurdwaras. I made several good friends there,
whom I still remember with fondness.

These were all the positive aspects, but it didn't
take long for me to start having my doubts too.
My parents had brought me up to pay homage
only to the Guru Granth Sahib, and so I found the
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constant mention of Yogi Bhajan (YB) in the
Ardas quite annoying. I was particularly irritated
by the deference shown to him through the title of
Siri Singh Sahib, and the assertion that he was the
supreme Sikh authority of the 'Western
hemisphere' .What did that mean, if anything? I'm
as western as anybody in my upbringing, attitudes
and outlook (even live West of the Greenwich
meridian, if only by 1.25 degrees!), and YB
certainly had no authority over me Besides, who
was the equivalent for the Eastern (Southern and
Northern) hemisphere? Nobody, it was complete
nonsense!

I also found many practices taking place, such as
astrology, which perplexed and horrified me
greatly. Not only were they inconsistent with my
training as a Mathematical Physicist, with a
background in Radio-Astronomy, they were at
odds with my understanding of Sikhism; and yet
these were being encouraged. Even worse, YB was
misrepresenting Gurbani. 'If you recite this Shabad
so many times, it will bring you so and so.' This is
totally against Gurmat". It's simply meaningless
chanting, and even that for worldly ends, rather
than reflection-contemplation on the Guru's
message about the Love of the Almighty.

I did try to raise my concerns with some of the
people in Espanola, but it wasn't very fruitful;
usually I just ended up in a heated debate. I
remember once asking about the Solstice events,
trying to make sure that they were just convenient
times of year to get together rather than having
Druid significance. I was told that they had some
Yogic, or astrological, meaning. When I tried to
point out that acting on such (supposed) attributes
was at odds with Gurmat, I had the Baran Mahan,
and some quotation like 'Raj jog takhat dhian Guru
Ram Das', thrown in my face. Hum! My view was
that while Sikhism and Yoga were not mutually
exclusive, they were not synonymous either. My
3HO friends disagreed. In a way, this example
illustrates the conclusion I came to. The 3HO
crowd and I might have been doing the same
things, such as keeping Kesh, reading Gurbani, and
so on, but we were doing them for entirely
different reasons. When my 3HO friend read the
Baran Mah, he saw thc mention of the seasonal
months as a cue for astrology. When I read them,
and other time-related passages, I got completely
the opposite message. Namely, that it doesn't
matter what month of the year, day of the week,
or hour of the day it is, if we remember God
through loving devotion, it's time well spent; if
not, it's a wasted opportunity.

Despite my misgivings, I was quite keen to see
and hear YB in person. After all, he must have
some unusual charm, or charisma, or something,
to be able to influence so many peopJ e is such a
profound way (I usually count myself lucky if I
can persuade my undergraduate students to do
their sums properly!). When I did get to meet him
at a Diwan in Albuquerque, I was disappointed.
He was rude, crude and not vely good. His hour-
long sermon was nothing more than incoherent
ramb1ing, mostly twaddle, with a 1ight sprinkling
of Gurbani to add a veneer of respectability. I was
dumbfounded. I just couldn't understand what
people saw in him; it's still a comp1ete mystery to
me. My 3HO friends kept saying how wonderful
he was, and how much love they got from him,
but I couJ d only wonder how deprived their
former lives must have been. If YB had been my
introduction to Sikhism, or anything else for that
matter, I would have told him where to go and run
away a mile myself. YB was very smart, of
course, and avoided locking horns with anyone he
thought was likely to stand up to him. He was
always very polite to me on the odd occasion that
we were both at the same place. I think he knew
that he'd get somc lip back if he tried any
nonsense on me.

One of my biggest disappointments was that Bhai
J iwan Singh, to whom I was told he was greatly
indebted for getting him out of a serious bind, did
not get him to back up his ideas. But then Bhai
Sahib is too much of a saint to cast thc first, or
any, stone; he tries to associate with just the good
aspects of people and avoids dwelling on their
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shortcomings. As for the Jathedhars of the Akal
Takhat and such 1ike putting YB straight, it was
never going to happen. Most of them are quite
corrupt themselves and pandered to YB (on seeing
his wea1th and status) instead of admonishing him.
The sad fact is that there are numerous self-sty1ed
saints whom the Sikh masses follow (because it's
far less effort than studying the Guru Granth Sahib,
and contemplating the Guru's messagc) who wie1d
considerable sway over the Sikh hierarchy (which
shouldn't be there, as such, in the first place
anyway). Compared to some of them, YB's antics
paled into insignificance

I posted the above account of my observations
about YB and the 3HO Sikh community on an e-
forum for former members a few months ago, and
received the following confirmation of my
aualysis:

What you expressed is what I have been wondering
might be the opinion of Sikhs of Punjabi descent.
Most are too polite to say it directly when speaking
with a 3HO Sikh, like I used to be, but would hint
at it. I also found that when I began to get serious
about Sikhe, I realised 80% of what 3HO did was
contrary. My experience mirrored yours when I
went to Harmandhir Sahib -we all wore beards
and kirpans, but that was where it ended. I found
so many of the Sikhs there so devout and humble
and without the superstition I had been surrounded
with in 3HO. I also agree with your assessment of
the Jathedhars, as I have seen them scramble for
the 3HO money, time and again. Again, thank you
for finally posting a traditional Sikh viewpoint
based on having experienced 3HO firsthand. Many
Punjabi Sikhs are so happy to see Americans in
turbans they overlook everything else. They often
are never exposed to day today 3HO.

When I was in Espanola in 1988, I ascertained that
there had been about four or five thousand 3HO
Sikhs during its heyday. Roughly half of them had
left a few years earlier, but nobody seemed willing
to talk about it much. Now that I've been able to
befriend some former members, I've learnt how
badly exploited they felt when they eventually
saw through YBs veil of deception. They are
convinced that YB's outfit was nothing more than
a cult designed for his personal betterment, with
the Sikh facade merely providing a convenient
cover. All but a handful have given up being
Sikhs, although they harbour no ill will towards
Sikhism itself; indeed, most retain a great deal of
respect for Gurbani. One of the few who has
remained a Sikh is Amar Prakash Singh, and his
eulogy for YE is as follows:

I have met many good Sikhs, some great Sikhs
and maybe even a couple of Saints in my life, but
Harbhajan Singh Puri was not one of them. I
joined 3HO almost 30 years ago to become a
Sikh. I was a chela of his for almost 20 years. I
left when I found out that most of his teachings
were contrary to Gurmat and the Rehit. It wasn't
until I left that I actually became a Sikh. My
whole experience with Harbhajan Singh can be
summed up in a quote from Farid (Guru Granth
Sahib. p. 1384)

I considered him a saint having swan like purity.
That is why I sought his association.
If I knew he was a hypocrite like crane.
I would have kept away from him all my life.

This seems like a fitting epitaph for YB to me. An
alternative would be one of his own favourite
catch phrases: "Fake it and you'll make it!"

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3HO Sikhs are associating yogis, ashrams, tantric sex
yoga rituals,drinking of wine and magicians of the
occult with the Sikh Gurus and the Golden Temple See
the Rare Photo (above) featuring the Harimandir sahib
in 1908 when it was under the control of the Pundits or
mahants. Sadhus and yogis felt free to sit wearing only
a dhoti and no head coverings.The Gurdwara Reform
Movement stopped such practices in India and gave the
Gurdwaras back to Gursikhs.
Tantric Asanas taught by Yogi Bhajan for transmuting
sexual energy:Reprinted from Yogi Bhajans official
magazine Beads of Truth 11, p. 39

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Yogi Bhajan's students are intstructed to meditate on
Yogi Bhajan's picture everyday which you can see
displayed in the 3HO Espanola Gurdwara in the photo
above.
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Tantric Yoga asanas (above) taught by Yogi Bhajan
and practised in 3HO Gurdwaras

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NOVEMBER 1984 SIKH GENOCIDE

U.S. COURT ORDERS TRIAL AGAINST INDIAN
MINISTER KAMAL NATH FOR HIS ROLE IN 1984
KILLING OF SIKHS

TRIAL TO BEGIN ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

On September 07, 2010, Honorable J udge Robert Sweet
of the United States District Court for the Southern
District of New York issued an order in the case against
Kamal Nath, Indian Minister for Roadways, asking the
parties to appear in the court on September 22, 2010 for
a pre-trial conference to discuss "settlement, exploring
contemplated motions, stipulating facts, arranging a
plan and schedule for all discovery and setting a time
for trial". The case against Kamal Nath was filed in
April 2010 by plaintiffs Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a U.S.-
based non-profit human rights advocacy group and
victims J asbir Singh and Mohinder Singh.

According to Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal advisor
to Sikhs for Justice, the court's order dated September
07, 2010 is the start of trial against Kamal Nath for
leading the mob that attacked Gurdawara Rakab Ganj
Delhi on November 1, 1984 in which many Sikhs were
burnt alive.

The plaintiffs have requested a "jury trial" during will
plaintiffs will submit documentary evidence proving
participation of Nath and many leaders of the Indian
National Congress in the November 1984 Sikh
Genocide. According to Pannun, SFJ has new
evidence which proves Minister Nath also organized
the massacre of Sikhs in different cities of Madhya
Pardesh including his constituency Chhindwara.

During November 1984, hundreds of Sikhs were killed
in more than 43 cities of Madhya Pardesh and
according to the official documents of the Indian
Government, more than 3,500 claims were filed by
Sikhs from the state of Madhya Pardesh alone.

Attorney Pannun further stated that "Alient Tort
Claims Act of United State, the law under which trial
against Kamal Nath will be held is specifically created
to provide remedy and forum to victims of genocide to
vindicate their complaints and the trial against Kamal
Nath is one such opportunity through which SFJ plans
to put on the record of the court evidence related to
Genocide of Sikhs and Kamal Nath's role in it".

Plaintiffs will also call upon survivors and experts on
Genocide as witnesses to prove that systematic killing
of Sikhs in November 1984 was Genocide as defined
Article 2 of the UN Convention on Genocide.

The lawsuit against Minister Nath is filed under
ALIEN TORT CLAIMS ACT (ATCA) AND THE
TORTURE VICTIM PROTECTION ACT (TVPA)
asking the U.S. Court to grant compensatory and
punitive damages for his role in leading an armed mob
that attacked Gurdawara Rakab Ganj Delhi on
November 1, 1984 in which many Sikhs were burnt
alive.

Kamal Nath did not respond to the summons issued by
the court on April 06, 2010 which resulted in entry of
default against Kamal Nath on Augusut 05, 2010.

Sikhs for Justice, is a U.S. based human rights
advocacy group, which is striving to disseminate
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information regarding the Genocide of Sikhs in
November 1984 and is mobilizing Human Rights
Groups and the International Community on a common
platform. Sikhs for Justice is pursuing the legal battle to
get the justice for the victims of the November 1984
Sikh Genocide with the support of ALL INDIA SIKH
STUDENTS FEDERATION, a social political
organization headed by Karnail Singh Peermohammad.

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HEAD-SCARF IS A NONISSUE - OBAMA
SHIES AWAY FROM PAYING TRIBUTE TO
INNOCENT SIKHS MASSACRED AT GOLDEN
TEMPLE IN JUNE 1984

New York:
Reacting to the President Obama's refusal to visit
Golden Temple, Sikhs for J ustice (SFJ ), a human rights
advocacy group backed by hundreds of Sikh
Gurudwaras across North America stated that
cancellation of visit by President is not due to headscarf
issue as Indian lobbyists want everyone to believe but
instead President has shied away from speaking about
and paying tribute to the thousands of innocent pilgrims
who were murdered in Golden Temple by Indian Army
in J une 1984.
According to Attorney Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal
advisor to SFJ , President Obama is going to Mumbai a
city of about 20 million populations to pay tribute to
victims of terrorist attacks while ignoring Sikh victims
of violence who had approached him ahead of his visit
to Golden Temple.
Attorney Pannun further added that President Obama's
visit to Golden Temple would have given a
tremendous push to key Sikh issues such as separate
religious identity of Sikhs, massacre of Sikhs at
Golden Temple by the Indian Army and his visit
would have been seen around world as a gesture of
support to suppressed religious minorities. No other
world leader is more capable to understand the plight
of India Sikhs than President Obama who himself
comes from a community that had suffered
discrimination and injustice, added attorney Pannun.
President Obama, has played right into the hands of
Indian lobbyists who have successfully thwarted his
visit to Golden Temple. The refusal by President
Obama to visit Golden Temple exposes hollowness of
Obama's claim of respect for religious diversity, and
undermines the so called "world leader" stature of
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is a Sikh.
In his J anuary 19, 2008 statement, President Obama
stated that he will be a President who will "respond
forcefully to all genocides", however, President
Obama's refusal to visit Golden Temple has become
another instance where he failed to fulfill his electoral
promise and caved in to the Indian lobbying.
According to attorney Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal
advisor to SFJ , any electoral promise aside, Article 1
of U.N Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide (1948) requires the United
States President to take all actions necessary to prevent
and punish acts of genocide. The obligation to act on
the issue of every Genocide, added attorney Pannun, is
neither absolved because of the economic status of the
country where the Genocide was committed (i.e. India)
nor is it mitigated by the number and status of victims
(i.e. Sikhs).
SJ F backed and supported by hundreds of Sikh
Gurdwaras across America approached President
Obama in September 2010 in Philadelphia and urged
him to show solidarity during his visit to Golden
Temple, where thousands of innocent Sikh pilgrims
were ruthlessly murdered by the Indian Security
Forces in this very Temple, the Vatican of Sikhs, in
J une 1984. President Obama's visit to Golden Temple
and SFJ 's campaign was going to expose the gross
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human rights violations and murders committed by the
Indian Army in the same very Golden Temple in J une
1984. Unfortunately President Obama who himself
comes from a minority community, caved in to the
pressure of lobbyists and cancelled his visit to Golden
Temple instead of standing with an oppressed minority
of India.
According to Attorney Pannun who practices human
rights, refugee and asylum law in the United States,
such efforts on part of Indian lobbyists are not new or
surprising because since J une 1984, Indian Government
has consistently blocked and disallowed visits to Punjab
by foreign human rights organizations in order to cover
the atrocities perpetrated against Sikhs in India. He
further added that most recently members of United
States Commission on International Religious Freedom
(USCRIF) who wanted to visit India to investigate the
state of affairs viz`-a-viz Indian Christians, were
denied visas by the Indian Government. In April 2009
Amnesty International was forced to close its office in
New Delhi, making India the only democracy in the
world without the presence of even a single
international human rights organization.
Coordination Committee
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GURU MANIO GRANTH
Sawan Singh Principal (Retired)
10561 Brier Lane, Santa Ana 92705 ,california.
Sawansingh85@gmail.com

Many Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Sikh writers have
written that on 21st October, 1708, more than 300 years
ago Guru Gobind Singh, the 10
th
Guru Of the Sikhs,
before he left this mortal world for his heavenly abode
at Nander, about 400 miles from Bombay, in the
present state of Maharashtra in the western part of
India, designated the then known Pothi Sahib as the
Eternal Living Guru of the Sikhs; thus giving it the
honorific title of Guru Granth Sahib.

Bhai Nand Lal, a devoted disciple of Guru Gobind
Singh, who was present at the time of Gurus death,
tells us in his Rehat Nama (the Sikh Code of Conduct)
that the Guru J i said, Mera Roop Granth Ji Jann, is
Main Bhed Nahin Kuchh Mann, meaning consider
the holy Granth as my own image; do not have any
doubt about it.

Bhatt Vahi Talanda Parganah, Jind now in the
Haryana state also describes the event in the
following words:-
Guru Gobind Singh asked Bhai Daya Singh to bring
Guru Granth Sahib. Guru jee placed five Paisas and a
coconut before Guru Granth Sahib and bowed before
it. He said to the congregation 'I order you to treat
Guru Granth Sahib as Guru after me.

According to Giani Garja Singh, to whom we owe this
discovery , Bhatt Vahis are a reliable source of
information. The author of this particular Vahi was
Narbad Singh Bhatt who was with Guru Gobind
Singh at that time at Nander. (These Bhatts recorded
events of the lives of the Gurus in their scrolls called
Vahis. Some of these Vahis are preserved to this day
by their descendants).

A letter written by Mata Sundriji w/o Guru Gobind
Singh addressed to the ancestors of Bhai Chet Singh
of village Bhai Rupa in Bhatinda district (Punjab)
shows that Sri Guru Granth Sahib was invested with
the final authority and the Sikhs believed it. Bhai Chet
Singh still has this letter.

Bhai Prahalad Singh, another contemporary of
Guru Gobind Singh, who has also recorded the
Gurus commandment on this issue, writes in his
Rehat Nama (Code of Conduct) that Guru J i said,
Agaya Bhai Akal kee tabeh chalayo panth; Sabh
Sikhan ko hukam hai guru manio Granth. 'With
the order of the Eternal Lord the (Sikh) Panth has been
established. All the Sikhs are hereby commanded to
obey the Granth'. Thus he surrendered his high
office of Guruship to Guru Granth Sahib.

Sainapat, who was not only a contemporary of
GURU Gobind Singh, but was also one of his trusted
courtiers, has written in his book Sri Gur Sobha in
1711, within 3 years after the Gurus death:-

A day before his death, the Sikhs asked Guru Gobind
Singh about the person he was nominating to succeed
him. In reply he said that the Khalsa, his true
followers, was his very self and to them he had granted
his robe and his physical self. The Eternal and
limitless Word uttered with the Supreme Lords Light
(the Granth) is our Supreme Master.
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Another document, which is a Sanskrit manuscript,
recently published by the Sanskrit university,
Varanasi (India), records Guru Gobind Singh's
proclamation that the holy scripture will be the Guru
after him.
Mohamud Ali Khan Ansari's book' Tarikh-E- Muzafree
(1820) page 152, Bute Shah's book ' Tarikh-E- Punjab
(1848) page 206 and Syeed Mohamad Latif's book
'History of the Punjab' page 269 also confirm the fact
that Guru Gobind Singh designated Guru Granth Sahib
The Eternal Guru After him.

Macauliffe, a well known writer of the Sikh History,
has written in his book The Sikh Religion (Vol. V P.
244):
In his farewell message Guru Gobind Singh said to the
Khalsa, his followers,' I have entrusted you to the
Immortal Lord. I have infused my mental and bodily
spirit into the Granth Sahib and the Khalsa. Obey the
Granth Sahib. It is the visible body of the Guru'.

Khushwant Singh, a famous Sikh writer, is right when
he writes in the introduction of his book, Hymns of the
Gurus: Guru Gobind Singh divided the concept of
Guruship into three, viz, personal, religious and
temporal. The first he said would end with him. The
second would subsist forever in the scripture, and the
Granth sahib was henceforth to be considered as the
symbolic representation of the ten Gurus. Temporal
leadership he vested in the community. Before the
death of Guru Gobind Singh, the Sikh Holy Scripture
was called Pothi Sahib or Granth Sahib and not Guru
Granth Sahib, which title got affixed only after the
commandment of Guru Gobind Singh. Thus, in
Sikhism, no living person, however holy or revered, can
now assume the title or status of Guru. This was one of
the most significant developments in the history of the
Sikhs.

It has been felt necessary to discuss this point in detail
with the quotations from authentic historical documents
because certain cults among Sikhs, who still own
personal Gurus, ask for authentic evidence to the effect
that Guru Gobind Singh had really named the SGGS his
successor. From the above discussion it can be
concluded unequivocally that in 1708, more than 300
years ago, Guru Gobind Singh abolished forever, the
personal Guruship and saved the Sikhs from the
problems that could arise from internecine disputes
because of several claimants for Guruship.

Guru Granth Sahib is a limitless store of gems of
spiritual and worldly experience. It is a spiritual
lighthouse which offers, through poetical
compositions, sublime thoughts for the entire
mankind. Originality is its distinct feature and its
catholic character makes it a unique holy scripture.
Treating SGGS as our Eternal Guru does not mean
only bowing before it, offering some money, listening
to the sacred hymns or doing Path or performing '
Akhand Path' by hiring readers without understanding
or trying to live according to its teachings. Some make
the excuse that Gurbani is above our comprehension.
No doubt, some portion of Gurbani cannot be
understood easily, but most of it can be understood
with a little effort. Moreover translation of SGGS is
available in many languages.

A few easy and meaningful lines from Gurbani given
below will prove my point:-

H r - c"!! - - Jc ="!!
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' Wrath and lust destroy body as borax melts the gold'.

J |!! =| - r" 3J|
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'O man! Why do you go in search of God in the
forests? He is Omnipresent, but ever detached and
within us.
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'Amongst all is the Light-You are that Light. By this
illumination, that Light is radiant within all'.

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'Everything is inferior to truth, truthful living is
superior to all'.

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'He who calls himself follower of the Guru rises early
and meditates on the Lord's name.'
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'O Nanak! He, who earns by the sweat of his brow and
gives with his hands something in charity, alone
knows the true way of life'.

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'Nanak, by speaking unpleasant words, one's body and
mouth become insipid. One is called foul-mouthed and
one's reputation becomes indifferent'.

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'An apostate's mind is lured by another's wife'.

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'Innumerable are the slanderers who carry on their
heads load (of slandering others.)

J " 3J " J J H 3J r!!
'Where there is greed, there is death. Where there is
forgiveness there is God Himself'.

We should read or listen to Gurbani, understand it and
apply its teachings to our daily life. We should also
persuade our next generation to learn Punjabi in
Gurmukhi script.

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HIJ3 |J3 J JJ J! HJ lr lUU! I
(I) 3 IJr =" =| H| J lH IJ-JI3
J| rlUr r3 J| lH rlJ"H| I
lH lH 8lUr H| HI J| I|r
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HlJ8 el =3 el olIo e ee J, lHH l8
lH IHJ = J H J He J 1

H Hl HlJ8 el 8l oe Jl 7\ 3 =9 3= U
UJlo HIH3 e =elo J1 I Iu HlJ8
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oH lHu lHlJ 8J3 Hl HIlJ llu lHlu Uc=
Uc=8lo l3l3 H3 Hl Hl3 o= lHl Hu
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l8HH e ulH= oIo e =l3 J, Jl
HIlo =l e =l3 J:

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=el =J 8l H l8 8JH = Hlo =l8
HIl HIl3 H ou 3l UHJ = 8u 7
uHl HJ 9, 7}

=Hl (H l8= H 3 l8HHl uH e 3 J 3 eH
H J=H l J, lH=3 el 3 H8l = 8)
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HU Jl He 1 (l8J l3 o = uH-3 J,
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H= J 171

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83l =l3l I8l J, l8 l8H H3 el l=Uu
lJ = Jl =lo H H=e1

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Hlo =H o uH o3 l=Uu e U
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8oe lJeo eo o uH e U = 8l
UI-oH Hu 8l8o He lJ J1

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I =l =ue J1 = I== J:

HH 3 H, J 3 HI, I 3 I (H=
HJHl=3l HJ , 9=u)
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(lHu) HH J (Uu) H3 l J, Hl J 3 FHl l J,
(Hl8= eu e) I J 3 (UJ 3 UHe) I
l J 1

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e=3 =l3l H Jl J1 I8l elo l8J I3lo
o l8Hl3J 3 lo J:

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The Sikh Bulletin


Idolatry is forbidden in Sikhism. Why does an eight foot high image (above) of Yogi Bhajan
controlling the tantric shakti "energy" adorn the 3HO Gurdwara in Espanola? You can see the
menacing image of Yogi Bhajan overshadowing the Sangat on the right side of the entire
Espanola Gurdwara in the photo above.

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