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Yogi ft. Ayah Marar - Follow U (Trolley Snatcha Remix)
Starting Six - Yogi
Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968
Shit Yogis Say
Yogi Bear- Episode 1
Starting Six
Nepal Yogi
Yogi Bear Movie Trailer 2 Official (HD)
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Yogi ft. Ayah Marar - Follow U (Trolley Snatcha Remix)
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  • Published: 11 Jul 2011
  • Duration: 3:43
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: UKFDubstep
Available to buy from the 11th September. Introducing 'Follow U', Ministry of Sound's latest dancefloor killer and the coming together of Yogi - one of the most exciting young producers in the UK with Ayah Marar beginning to carve out her career as a singer adding guest vocals to tracks on Hospital Records and the Metalheadz label.. Having already secured a Top 10 hit with Wretch 32's 'Traktor', the Brent Cross born producer Yogi began DJing in clubs at 16 and has since carved out a reputation for himself as the UK's go-to producer after working with stalwarts of the scene: Professor Green, RoxXxan, Wale, Bashy, Plan B and Lethal Bizzle. He now adds his magic touch to Ayah Marar. Become a fan of Trolley Snatcha: www.facebook.com Follow Trolley Snatcha on Twitter: www.twitter.com www.facebook.com www.ukfmusic.com http www.twitter.com
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Starting Six - Yogi
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  • Published: 15 Dec 2010
  • Duration: 3:45
  • Updated: 13 May 2012
Author: nicnac712
DOWNLOAD LINK!!! hulkshare.com Outtapocket.com lol @nicnacbeats
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Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968
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  • Published: 05 Sep 2009
  • Duration: 6:11
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: maharishichannel
www.tm.org Transcendental Meditation explained by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada 1968. This historic talk brings understanding to the nature of inner life. Maharishi says that practicing the Transcendental Meditation Technique is a way to help dissolve stresses and to quickly enjoy life to the maximum. Transcript Maharishi: "The depth of the lake, and the ripples, and the beautiful reflection of the glacier, reminds me of the story of inner life. The mind is deep like a lake, the ripples on the surface represent the conscious mind, the activity of the mind on the surface. And the whole depth of the lake is silent and that is the sub conscious mind which is not used by the wave. But if, the wave could deepen, and incorporate more silent levels of the water, the waves could become the waves of the ocean - the mighty waves. This is what happens in Transcendental Meditation. The surface activity of the conscious mind deepens and incorporates within its fold the depth of the sub conscious. Nothing remains sub conscious the whole sub conscious becomes conscious and a man starts using the full potential of the mind. And the reflection of the glacier on the water is like the impression that the objects of the mind perceives and as long as the mind is not capable of maintaining its essential nature which is bliss consciousness, so long the mind gets imprinted by the perceptions of the objects and this is called the bondage of the mind..." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi goes <b>...</b>
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Shit Yogis Say
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  • Published: 30 Dec 2011
  • Duration: 1:47
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: lululemon
Namaste, mutha f*ckas. #shityogissay
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Yogi Bear- Episode 1
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  • Published: 17 Nov 2008
  • Duration: 7:17
  • Updated: 17 May 2012
Author: Spideyfan937
First episode of Yogi Bear. Copyright of Warner Bros, All rights reserved. "The Yogi Bear Show" (1961)TV series 1961-1988 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview IMDB Rating- 7.1/10 228 votes My Rating- 9.0/10 Directors:Joseph Barbera William Hanna Writers:Tony Benedict (writer) Warren Foster (writer) Release Date:30 January 1961 (USA) Genre:Animation | Family | Comedy Cast: Daws Butler ... Additional Voices / ... (1 episode, 1961) Don Messick ... Boo Boo Bear / ... (1 episode, 1961) Series Directed by Joseph Barbera (unknown episodes) William Hanna (unknown episodes) Series Writing credits Tony Benedict (unknown episodes) Warren Foster (unknown episodes) Dan Gordon (unknown episodes) Michael Maltese (unknown episodes) Charles Shows (unknown episodes) Series Original Music by Hoyt S. Curtin (unknown episodes) Will Schaefer (unknown episodes) Series Production Management Howard Hanson .... production supervisor (unknown episodes) Series Animation Department Robert Bentley .... animator (unknown episodes) Richard Bickenbach .... layout artist (unknown episodes) Bob Carr .... animator (unknown episodes) Jack Carr .... animator (unknown episodes) Brad Case .... animator (unknown episodes) Walt Clinton .... layout artist (unknown episodes) Arthur Davis .... animator (unknown episodes) Ed DeMattia .... animator (unknown episodes) Phil Duncan .... animator (unknown episodes) Robert Gentle .... background artist (unknown episodes <b>...</b>
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Starting Six
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  • Published: 12 Mar 2011
  • Duration: 5:14
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: movementsinmedia
Bay Area request "Yogi" on CMC - TV either by calling in at 1 800 286 5CMC or online at: www.cmc-tv.com ---- Bay Area request "YOGI" on 99.7 - either by calling 1 888 456 9970 or text 22997 & request "Yogi" ---- Artist: Starting Six - Director, Editor, Colorist, Sound Design & VFX: Chris Morocco - Producer: Brittany Sims - DP: Roy Wanguhu - Sound Recordist: Elliot Peltzman - PA: Charles Ellis - PA: Kaboshi
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Nepal Yogi
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  • Published: 19 Dec 2007
  • Duration: 2:43
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: Pygarr
A Yogi doing his poses in Nepal.
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Yogi Bear Movie Trailer 2 Official (HD)
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  • Published: 27 Sep 2010
  • Duration: 1:32
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: clevverTV
Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! Yogi Bear opens in theaters December 17th, 2010. Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake, Anna Faris, Tom Cavanagh, Andrew Daly Jellystone Park has been losing business, so greedy Mayor Brown decides to shut it down and sell the land. That means families will no longer be able to experience the natural beauty of the outdoors - and, even worse, Yogi and Boo Boo will be tossed out of the only home they've ever known. Faced with his biggest challenge ever, Yogi must prove that he really is "smarter than the average bear" as he and Boo Boo join forces with their old nemesis Ranger Smith to find a way to save Jellystone Park from closing forever. Yogi Bear movie trailer courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.
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Yogis Of Tibet (2002)- Full Movie
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  • Published: 01 Jul 2011
  • Duration: 1:16:37
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: IAmHanuMan
For the first time, the reclusive and secretive Tibetan monks agree to discuss aspects of their philosophy and allow themselves to be filmed while performing their ancient practices. Directed by Jeffrey M. Pill Writing credits (in alphabetical order) Barbara King Cast (in...
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The Yogis of Tibet
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  • Published: 19 Sep 2006
  • Duration: 3:44
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: alexmorgan777
a film for posterity
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Sadhana - Video Lecture by Yogi Bhajan
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  • Published: 04 Feb 2007
  • Duration: 10:53
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: gmustuk
www.sikhnet.com To continue on the theme of "Sadhana" I am posting a video by Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa (AKA: Yogi Bhajan). This video is an excerpt from the DVD "Discover Your Soul". The DVD is a full lecture and meditation class taught by Yogi Bhajan, so this video is just a part of it. If you enjoy the video I highly recommend that you get a copy of the DVDs which has the full lecture and the meditations that were taught. In this video he talks about the concept of Sadhana and why we must get up early in the morning to meditate and clear our sub-conscious mind. He also discusses the topic of cold shower and the benefits. Over the next few weeks I will be editing and posting more video excerpts like this from classes he taught over the years. If you don't know much about the term "Sadhana" then you can read this previous blog post on the subject.
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Yogi Bear Parody:
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  • Published: 13 Dec 2010
  • Duration: 2:53
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: estefez
This is an independently made parody with no association to Warner Brothers or the producers and actors of the 2010 "Yogi Bear" film. This is a parody meant for adult viewing only as it may be disturbing to children.
http://web.archive.org./web/20120609103903/http://wn.com/Yogi Bear Parody: "Booboo Kills Yogi" ending
Natale In India - SoundTrack: Yogi
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  • Published: 16 Jul 2008
  • Duration: 3:21
  • Updated: 16 May 2012
Author: Sharingan200790
Yogi's song in the italian film "Natale in India"
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Meditation w/ Anusara Yogi Bridget Woods Kramer - omshop.com
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  • Published: 26 Feb 2007
  • Duration: 8:24
  • Updated: 18 May 2012
Author: omshop
A guided meditation with Bridget Woods Kramer, a leading Anusara yoga teacher, filmed on the clifftops of Cornwall, England. Bridget is Anusara's UK representative and main certified Anusara teacher having studied with John Friend, the founder of the Anusara school of Yoga since 1994. Bridget travels all over Europe giving Anusara immersion workshops, Teacher training's, and in depth study courses. 'Be Still' Music by kind permission of Rafael Szaban Produced by Rafael Szaban (www.indigoseamusic.com). Music available to purchase at www.omshop.eu Yoga workshops with Bridget available from www.omshop.com
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  • Yogi ft. Ayah Marar - Follow U (Trolley Snatcha Remix)...3:43
  • Starting Six - Yogi...3:45
  • Transcendental Meditation - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Canada, 1968...6:11
  • Shit Yogis Say...1:47
  • Yogi Bear- Episode 1...7:17
  • Starting Six "Yogi" Music Video (Official)...5:14
  • Nepal Yogi...2:43
  • Yogi Bear Movie Trailer 2 Official (HD)...1:32
  • Yogis Of Tibet (2002)- Full Movie...1:16:37
  • The Yogis of Tibet...3:44
  • Sadhana - Video Lecture by Yogi Bhajan...10:53
  • Yogi Bear Parody: "Booboo Kills Yogi" ending...2:53
  • Natale In India - SoundTrack: Yogi...3:21
  • Meditation w/ Anusara Yogi Bridget Woods Kramer - omshop.com...8:24
Available to buy from the 11th September. Introducing 'Follow U', Ministry of Sound's latest dancefloor killer and the coming together of Yogi - one of the most exciting young producers in the UK with Ayah Marar beginning to carve out her career as a singer adding guest vocals to tracks on Hospital Records and the Metalheadz label.. Having already secured a Top 10 hit with Wretch 32's 'Traktor', the Brent Cross born producer Yogi began DJing in clubs at 16 and has since carved out a reputation for himself as the UK's go-to producer after working with stalwarts of the scene: Professor Green, RoxXxan, Wale, Bashy, Plan B and Lethal Bizzle. He now adds his magic touch to Ayah Marar. Become a fan of Trolley Snatcha: www.facebook.com Follow Trolley Snatcha on Twitter: www.twitter.com www.facebook.com www.ukfmusic.com http www.twitter.com
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Yogi ft. Ayah Marar - Fol­low U (Trol­ley Snatcha Remix)
3:45
Start­ing Six - Yogi
6:11
Tran­scen­den­tal Med­i­ta­tion - Ma­har­ishi Ma­hesh Yogi at Lake Louise, Cana­da, 1968
1:47
Shit Yogis Say
7:17
Yogi Bear- Episode 1
5:14
Start­ing Six "Yogi" Music Video (Of­fi­cial)
2:43
Nepal Yogi
1:32
Yogi Bear Movie Trail­er 2 Of­fi­cial (HD)
76:37
Yogis Of Tibet (2002)- Full Movie
3:44
The Yogis of Tibet
10:53
Sad­hana - Video Lec­ture by Yogi Bha­jan
2:53
Yogi Bear Par­o­dy: "Boo­boo Kills Yogi" end­ing
3:21
Na­tale In India - Sound­Track: Yogi
8:24
Med­i­ta­tion w/ Anusara Yogi Brid­get Woods Kramer - omshop.​com
2:23
Car­toon Net­work Groovies - "Yogi Bear"
78:46
Bear
8:28
Yogis of Tibet
4:57
Yogi ft Ayah Marar - 'Fol­low U' (Xi­lent Remix)
2:15
Yogi by The Ivy Three
2:28
- Yogi Vishvke­tu - Yoga Demo yogi Vish­va
46:52
The Fire Yogi
3:04
TJ Miller Au­di­tions for Yogi the Bear


  • Actor Justin Timberlake, center, poses with characters Yogi and Boo Boo at the premiere of the feature film
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  • Actor Justin Timberlake arrives at the premiere of the feature film
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  • Actor Justin Timberlake arrives with school children on a yellow school bus at the premiere of the feature film
    AP / Dan Steinberg
  • A sculpture of a Hindu yogi in the Birla Mandir, Delhi
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  • A procession of Akharas marching over a makeshift bridge over the Ganga river, Kumbh Mela at Allahabad, 2001. According to Paramahansa Yogananda in his work the Autobiography of a Yogi
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  • Yogi Berra
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  • First Lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden, Yogi Berra and Retired Army Capt. Tony Odierno Take to the Field at Yankee Stadium
    US Government / Samantha Appleton
  • A Tibetan Ngakpa or Yogi at main Tibetan temple in Dharamshala, India
    WN / Yeshe Choesang
  • Tibetans Yogi and actor talks on his new film, “A Precious Human Life” (Melue Jhurpoche), Dharamshala, India
    WN / Yeshe Choesang
  • A New Tibetan actor and Yogi for “A Precious Human Life” (Melue Jhurpoche)movie, Dharamshala, India
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  • A Tibetan yogi offering prayer in Dharamshala, India
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  • Flic Meditation chambers for Transcendental Meditation, at the old Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ashram, now in ruins, Muni Ki Reti. The Ashram got famous internationally with the arrival of The Beatles in Feb 1968,
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  • Thiruvannamalai (Tamil: திருவண்ணாமலை, same as English pronunciation) is a pilgrimage town and municipality in Thiruvannamalai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the headquarters of the Thiruvannamalai district. Thiruvannamalai is home to the Annamalaiyar Temple located at the foot of the Annamalai hill and amongst one of the great Shiva Temples of Tamilnadu. Thiruvannamalai has long been associated with many yogis and siddhars,[1] and more recently the 20th century guru Ramana Mah
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  • Hundreds of Buddhist monks from Kagyu Tibetan Buddhism sect gathered for a drama on Tibetan Yogi Melaripa, Bodh Gaya, India
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  • Tibetans from Institute of performing arts gathered for a drama on Tibetan Yogi Melaripa, Bodh Gaya, India
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  • Tibetans from Institute of performing arts perform a drama on Tibetan Yogi Melaripa, Bodh Gaya, India
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  • Tibetans performing life story drama of Melaripa who known as the Tibetan famous Yogi, Bodh Gaya, India.
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  • Yogi Berra
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  • Pearligton, MS, September 5, 2008 -- FEMA Preliminary Damage Assessment team member Yogi Howell spoke with Janic Dell about damage to her son's Jacksonville Drive home from Hurricane Gustav. Many Pearlington homes that were not elevated had water damage on their first floors. Photo by Greg Henshall / FEMA
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  • 1997/07/06 Soil and rock
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  • 1997/07/06 Terrain and rock
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  • 1997/07/07 Yogi the rock - Yogi, a rock taller than rover Sojourner, is the subject of this image, taken by the deployed Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on Sol 3. The soil in the foreground will be the location of multiple soil mechanics experiments perf
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  • 1997/07/09 Lower portions of Yogi - The image was taken by a camera aboard the Sojourner rover on Sol 4. The large rock Yogi can be seen at the upper right portion of the image. Sojourner´s Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer instrument is currently stu
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  • 1997/07/10 Yogi and rover tracks - Taken from Sojourner´s front stereo camera, this image features the large rock Yogi and hole dug by the front wheel of the rover into the Martian soil. The rover is maneuvering into a position better suited to imag
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Indianapolis Star Yogi Ferrell isn't accustomed to being No. 2. When he was in fifth grade, a national recruiting service ranked him the No. 1 player in the nation in his class. He went on to finish his high school career at Park Tudor with back-to-back state titles. This week, though, will be a different experience....(size: 5.1Kb)
Indianapolis Star Yogi Ferrell isn't accustomed to being No. 2. When he was in fifth grade, a national recruiting service ranked him the No. 1 player in the nation in his class. He went on to finish his high school career at Park Tudor with back-to-back state titles. This week, though, will be a different experience....(size: 5.1Kb)
The Examiner Via The Spiritual Journalist "By definition, a Raja Yogi is one who has mental link with the Supreme Soul, the source of all goodness. This, coupled with an understanding of the laws of action which govern the behavior of souls, means that one does not have to renounce society in order to achieve...(size: 6.4Kb)
New York Daily News If you happen to be in New York City's Times Square on June 20, you might want to tote along your yoga mat. On that day, thousands of yogis will be seeking tranquility and flexibility in one of the busiest...(size: 1.4Kb)
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A ''Yogi'' is a practitioner of Yoga. The word is also used to refer to ascetic practitioners of meditation in a number of South Asian religions including Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

Etymology[link]

The word ''Yogi'' (Sanskrit: masc '''', योगी ; fem '''') originally referred in the Classical Sanskrit of the Puranas specifically to a male practitioner of Yoga. In the same literature ''yoginī'' is the term used for female practitioners as well as divine goddesses and enlightened mothers, all revered as aspects of the Divine Mother Devi, without whom there would be no yogis. The two terms are still used today but the word ''Yogi'' is also generically used to refer to both male and female practitioners of yoga and related meditative practices in Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism etc.

Hinduism[link]

In Hinduism the term refers to an adherent of Yoga. As an Urdu term, ''yogī'' (Nastaliq یوگی) is mostly used to refer to wandering Sufi saints and ascetics. The word is also often used in the Buddhist context to describe Buddhist monks or a householder devoted to meditation. The Shiva Samhitadefines the yogi Kanabar as someone who knows that the entire cosmos is situated within his own body, and the ''Yoga-Shikha-Upanishad'' text distinguishes two kinds of yogis: those who pierce through the "sun" (surya) by means of the various yogic techniques and those who access the door of the central conduit (sushumna-nadi) and drink the nectar.

As to what this nectar is, all meditation lineages do focus on self-mastery of essence, both spiritual and sexual. The Yoga-Bhashya, the oldest extant commentary on the Yoga-Sutra offers the following fourfold classification of yogis:

1. neophyte/beginner (prathama-kalpika) 2. one who has reached the "honeyed level" (madhu-bhumika) 3. the advanced practitioner who enjoys enlightenment (prajna-jyotis) and, 4. the transcender (atikranta-bhavaniya).

In light of the above, many self-described western yogis or certified yoga teachers may in fact be only in the basic stages of development, having an irregular personal practice, along with compulsive discharge of sexual essence. Traditionally, yogic training involved deferring the tantric practices of sexual yoga/marriage until such time that sexual self-mastery had been established, whereupon sexual union is considered to be the ultimate yoga of Shiva and Shakti.

Brahmacarya for yogis, as stated in the Agni-Purana, embodies self-imposed abstention from sexual activity: fantasizing, glorifying the sex act or someone's sexual attraction, dalliance, sexual ogling, sexually flirtatious talk, the resolution to break one's vow, and consummation of sexual intercourse itself, with any being.

Married practitioners aspire to likewise abstain from unconscious/harmful sexual behavior, and to meditatively practice sexual yoga (as opposed to ego-centered sexual release) with their partner, but must practice aware chastity with regard to others.

Modern science now understands that such a code of sexual conduct is also organically assisted by neurochemical changes in brain states of intense meditators (reduced dopamine and increased oxytocin) that induce general relaxation and mental stability, and is not sheerly by willpower alone.

List of Yogis[link]

Historical Yogis and Yoga gurus: Swami Nigamananda (1880–1935) Sivananda Saraswati (1887–1963) Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989)
  • Padmashri Yogi Bharat Bhushan of Mokshayatan International Yogashram Born in 1952
  • Malladihalli Sri Raghavendra Swamiji (1890–1996) Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) Pranavanda Saraswathi (1908–1982) K. Pattabhi Jois (1915–2009) Swami Chidananda Saraswati (1916–2008) Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921–1990) Swami Venkatesananda (born 1921) Swami Krishnananda (1922–2001) Satyananda Saraswati (1923–2009) Swami Vishnu-devananda (1927–1993) Albert Rudolph (1928–1973)
  • Lawrence Berra (1925- )
  • Omananda Saraswati
  • Jaggi Vasudev
  • Anaman Yogiji
  • Niranjanananda Saraswati
  • Satyasangananda Sarswati
  • Ramdev
  • Mario Dörflinger
  • See also[link]

  • List of yoga schools
  • Ngagpa
  • Yoga
  • Yogini
  • References[link]

    1-2. Feuerstein, Georg. The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga, Shambhala Publications, Boston, 2000 p. 321, 350.

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    nameHarbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi
    birth dateAugust 26, 1929
    birth placeKot Harkarn, Punjab, British India
    death dateOctober 06, 2004
    death placeEspanola, New Mexico
    professionSpiritual Director of 3HO Foundation, Religious Leader (Siri Singh Sahib of Sikh Dharma in Western Hemisphere), Board Member of Akal Security, Golden Temple Bakery, and other US Corporations, Founder of Miri Piri Academy, Former Indian Civil Servant (in Customs Service)
    spouseBibi Inderjit Kaur
    childrenRanbir Singh, Kulbir Singh, Kamaljit Kaur
    religionSikhism }}

    Siri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji (born as Harbhajan Singh Puri) (August 26, 1929–October 6, 2004), also known as Yogi Bhajan and Siri Singh Sahib, was a spiritual leader and entrepreneur who introduced Kundalini Yoga to the United States. He was the spiritual director of the 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) Foundation, with over 300 centers in 35 countries, and the founder of Sikh Dharma, a Sikh sect based in the United States.

    Family[link]

    Harbhajan Singh Puri was born on August 26, 1929 into a Sikh family in Kot Harkarn, district Gujranwala, in the province of Punjab (British India). His father, Dr. Kartar Singh Puri, served the British Raj as a medical doctor. His mother was named Harkrishan Kaur. His father was born in the Sikh tradition, while his mother was a Hindu, and young Harbhajan was educated in a Catholic school run by nuns. Theirs was a well-to-do landlord family, owning most of their village in the foothills of the Himalayas. Singh married Inderjit Kaur Uppal in Delhi in 1954. They had three children, Ranbir Singh, Kulbir Singh and Kamaljit Kaur.

    In 1976, Singh legally changed his name to Harbhajan Singh Khalsa. His wife, known as "Bibiji" was named to the religious post of "Bhai Sahiba" of Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere in the 1980s.

    Education[link]

    Singh learned the fundamentals of Sikhism from his paternal grandfather, Bhai Fateh Singh. As a teen, Singh spent several years under the strict tutelage of Sant Hazara Singh who declared his student a Master of Kundalini Yoga at the age of sixteen.

    Singh's schooling was interrupted in 1947 by the violent partition of India, when he and his family fled to New Delhi as refugees. There, Singh attended Camp College – a hastily put together arrangement for thousands of refugee students – and led the Sikh Students Federation in Delhi. Four years later, he graduated with a Masters Degree in Economics.

    Singh later graduated from the University of Humanistic Studies in San Francisco with a Ph.D. in Psychology with his seminal doctoral thesis, ''Communication: Liberation or Condemnation''.The Yogi Bhajan Home page at www.yogbhajan.org states a degree in "communication psychology".

    Indian Civil Service[link]

    In 1953, Singh entered the Indian Civil Service. Singh served in the Revenue Department, where his duties took him all over India. Eventually, he was promoted to the post of customs inspector for the country's largest airport, outside of Delhi.

    Yogic study in India[link]

    Throughout his life, Singh continued his practice and pursuit of yogic knowledge. His government duties often facilitated his traveling to remote ashrams and distant hermitages in order to seek out reclusive yogis and swamis.

    In the mid-1960s, Singh took up a position as instructor at the Vishwayatan Ashram in New Delhi, under Dhirendra Brahmachari. This yoga centre was frequented by the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter, Indira Gandhi, and diplomats and employees from a host of foreign embassies.

    Migration to North America[link]

    Singh emigrated to Canada in 1968. According to his own account, he left India under pressure to participate in Soviet psychic experiments at their designated research center in Tashkent.

    Although a promised position as director of a new yogic studies department at the University of Toronto did not materialize because of the death of his sponsor, Singh made a considerable impact in the predominantly Anglo-Saxon metropolis. In three months, he established classes at several YMCAs, co-founded a yoga centre, was interviewed for national press and television, and helped set in motion the creation of eastern Canada's first Sikh temple in time for Guru Nanak's five hundredth birthday the following year.

    Late in 1968, Singh went to visit a friend in Los Angeles, but ended up staying to share the teachings of Kundalini Yoga with members of the hippie counterculture of California and New Mexico.

    Kundalini yoga[link]

    While Yoga practice and philosophy is generally considered a part of Hindu culture, Singh distinguished himself as a teacher and practitioner of yoga and a Sikh. He quoted Bhai Gurdas to say, “The Sikhs who are Yogis remain detached and wakeful in the world of attachments.” (Var 29, Verse 15)

    While adhering to the three pillars of Patanjali's traditional yoga system: discipline, self-awareness and self-dedication (Patanjali Yoga Sutras, II:1), Kundalini Yoga as taught by Singh did not condone extremes of asceticism or renunciation. Singh encouraged his students to marry, establish businesses, and be fully engaged in society. Rather than worshiping God, Singh insisted that his students train their mind to experience God.

    His students referred to Singh's yoga teachings as Raj Yoga which they described as the yoga of living detached, yet fully engaged in the world. In respect of the rigor of his teachings, Singh would find kinship with other 20th century Sikh sadhu saints, such as Sant Baba Attar Singh, Sant Baba Nand Singh, and Bhai Randhir Singh. In the outreach of his teachings, Singh's contributions are unparalleled in modern times.Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa, The Essential Gursikh Yogi: The Yoga and Yogis in the Past, Present and Future of Sikh Dharma, Toronto, Monkey Minds Press, 2008, pp 200-08.

    Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization[link]

    In 1969, Singh established the 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) Foundation to further his missionary work. It served his premise that every human possessed the birthright to be healthy, happy and holy.

    Singh's brand of Sikhism appealed to the hippies who formed the bulk of his converts. The Sikh practice of not cutting one's hair or beard were already accepted by the hippy culturer, as was Sikh vegetarianism. They liked to experience elevated states of awareness. They also deeply wanted to feel they were contributing to a world of peace and social justice. Singh offered them all these things with vigorous yoga, an embracing holistic vision, and an optimistic spirit of sublime destiny.

    By 1972, there would be over one hundred 3HO yoga ashrams mostly in the U.S., but also in Canada, Europe and Israel. Student-teachers would rise each day for a cold shower and two-and-a-half hours of yoga and meditation before sunrise. Often, they would spend the rest of the day at some "family business" be it a natural foods restaurant, or a landscaping business, or some other concern. A Sikh was supposed to earn honestly "by the sweat of their brow" and many did just that.

    By the 1990s, there was a culture shift. On a personal level, rising early and overtly being a Sikh was considered more of an option than an implied directive. Meanwhile, the surviving communal businesses had incorporated and many had grown exponentially to keep pace with the rising demand for health-oriented products and services. This period also saw an increased interest in yoga worldwide.

    To serve the changing times, Singh created the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association, dedicated to setting standards for teachers and the propagation of the teachings.

    In 1994, the 3HO Foundation joined the United Nations as a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, representing women's issues, promoting human rights, and providing education about alternative systems of medicine.

    Aquarian age timeline[link]

    In spring of 1969, soon after Singh had begun teaching in Los Angeles, a hit medley "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" was topping the music charts and being played everywhere. The performers, The 5th Dimension, happened to be signed to a record label owned by one of his students (and his green card sponsor), musician and entrepreneur Johnny Rivers.

    Singh incorporated the storyline of the dawning new age into his teachings, a case of melding Western astrology with Sikh tradition. "Guru Nanak," proclaimed Singh, "was the Guru for the Aquarian Age." It was, he declared, to be an age where people first experienced God, then believed, rather than the old way of believing and then being liberated by one's faith.

    His timeline for the arrival of the Aquarian age varied over the years, but in 1992, Singh fixed it at 2012 and gave his students a set of morning meditations to practice until that date to prepare themselves.

    Native American connections[link]

    Some of Singh's earliest students in Los Angeles had spent time in New Mexico influenced by Native American, especially Hopi teachings. To fulfill their wishes, he accompanied them in June 1969 to their summer solstice celebration at the Tesuque Indian reservation outside of Santa Fe.

    At the next year's celebration, a delegation of Hopi Indian elders arrived. They spoke of their ancient legend that before the end of the present age of darkness, a white-clad warrior would come from the East and create an army of warriors in white who would rise up and protect the "Unified Supreme Spirit." A sweat lodge ceremony was held and a sacred arrow given in trust to him. The elders explained that they had determined he was the white-clad warrior of their legend.

    Seven years later, he purchased a large parcel of land in the Jemez Mountains where the Hopis had indicated sacred gatherings had taken place for thousands of years. The elders had said this land needed to be prepared so "the Unified Supreme Spirit can once again be experienced by the great tribes and spread through all the people of the world." The land was named "Ram Das Puri" and annual solstice prayers and festivities have been celebrated there every summer since. Since 1990, these have included a Hopi sacred prayer walk.

    Pilgrimage to Amritsar[link]

    In the winter of 1970-71, Singh brought an entourage of eighty-four Americans on a pilgrimage to the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, India. The Punjabi Sikhs had never seen Westerners in turbans before, and at first, they were suspicious. The Sikh administration in the holy city of Amritsar was in a turmoil. Once they understood that the devotion of the Westerners was genuine, they approved of the visit. Of the eight-four Americans, twenty-six took vows to join the Order of Khalsa as full-fledged Sikhs.

    On March 3, 1971, outside the Akal Takhat (the traditional seat of Sikh temporal authority in Amritsar), Sant Fateh Singh and Sant Chanan Singh bestowed on Singh a ceremonial sword and a robe of honor and a unique designation. They had reasoned that Yogi Singh had indeed created "Singh Sahibs" (noble lions), and to continue in his work he would need a higher designation. For this reason, they gave Singh the unprecedented title of "great, noble lion": Siri Singh Sahib. Because no one before in all of Sikh history had received this title, it would ignite controversy in years to come.

    Inter-faith work[link]

    In the summer of 1970, Singh participated in an informal "Holy Man Jam" at the University of Colorado at Boulder with Swami Satchidananda, Stephen Gaskin of The Farm in Tennessee, Zen Buddhist Bill Quan-roshi, and other local luminaries. A few weeks later, he carried that inspiration forward and organized a gathering of spiritual teachers to engage and inspire the 200,000 attendees of the Atlanta Pop Festival on the stage between the performance of the bands.

    These seminal events served to awaken interest in inter-faith discussion such as had not been seen since the 1920s. In 1972, Singh participated in religious panels at Harvard University, Cornell University, Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That same year, he visited Pope Paul VI and advised him to convene a gathering of friendship and understanding for representatives of all religions. He reminded Paul VI that catholic meant "universal" and suggested that, as head of the world's largest religious organization, he would be the most suitable leader to host such a meeting.

    Singh maintained his relationship with the Catholic Church under Pope John Paul II. In 1983 and again in 1984, they met. When the Golden Temple came under assault from the Indian Army with the loss of life of many hundreds of pilgrims, the pontiff offered his official condolences.

    During the United Nations Year of Peace 1986, Singh instituted a yearly Peace Prayer Day for people of all denominations at the Summer Solstice near Santa Fe.

    In that same year, Pope John Paul II convened a gathering of religious representatives of the world such as Singh had proposed fourteen years earlier. Singh participated in a ceremony held the same day in Los Angeles.

    All through the 1970s and 80s, Singh actively engaged in and chaired numerous inter-religious councils and forums, including the Inter-Religious Council of Southern California, the World Conference for the Unity of Man, and the World Parliament of Religions. In 1999, he gave a presentation at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Cape Town, South Africa.

    Gender relations[link]

    Singh, the son of a graceful mother, was deeply shocked and offended by the exploitation of women in America. In 1971, he taught a gathering of his female students that they were the "Grace of God." Thus began the Grace of God Movement for the Women of America. Strip clubs in San Francisco were briefly picketed, but Singh's real emphasis was on re-educating America's largest exploited class.

    In the summer of 1975 Singh held an eight week camp in New Mexico where he taught the psychology of a successful woman. Successive camps included subjects such as martial arts, rappelling, fire arms training and healing arts to build the character and confidence of the women in training, which is why the camps were designated "Khalsa Women Training Camps."

    Although Singh did teach a few weekend courses for men, his emphasis was on women because he recognized in them the foundation of any society, and he wanted to fundamentally end the disempowerment of Western women and the destruction of families.

    As far as homosexuality was concerned, Singh at first was shocked by the phenomenon. Through the 1970s and early 1980s, Singh taught that the condition could be cured through intensive yoga and self-analysis. By the late 1980s, however, Singh had resigned himself to the conclusion that "sometimes God goofs" and puts men into women's bodies and vice versa.

    Sikh rights in North America[link]

    Singh played a role in having the right of practicing Sikhs to keep their distinctive turbans recognized in the United States and Canada. When, in 1973, three men serving in the U.S. Armed Forces took up the Sikh faith, they faced harsh discipline for maintaining their beards and turbans contrary to military regulations. Singh arranged for religious authorities in Amritsar to take notice of their cases, which caused the U.S. Armed Forces to change its policy in regards to the keeping of beards and wearing of turbans, so as to accommodate Sikhs in the service.

    This development led to a similar case launched by a student of Singh in 1977, a test challenge involving the Canadian Armed Forces. The Canadian Human Rights Commission decided the case in favour of the Sikhs. A number of subsequent cases in Canada led to widespread acceptance of the wearing of turbans in a number of uniformed services, including municipal transit companies and police forces, most notably the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, where Baltej Singh Dhillon became the first turbaned member of the national police force in 1990.

    During the 1980s Ghallooghaaraa[link]

    During the 1980s Sikh struggle for civil rights in Punjab, Yogi Bhajan strove for peace and attempted to mediate between the Sikh leadership in Punjab and the Indian government under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. In 1980, he warned the Sikhs of 'terrible consequences' if they did not unite and later advised Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale to work peacefully when the movement turned violent. He tried, in vain, to mediate peace between the members of Indira Gandhi's government and the Sikh leadership in Punjab.

    Singh played a unique role in the unfolding cataclysm. He was familiar with people on both sides of the conflict. Through his time in Delhi, teaching at the Vishwayatan Yoga Ashram of Swami Dhirendra Acharya, he had come to know the ruling Nehru family who were patrons and students of the swami. He was also well-connected with Sikhs, holy men and politicians alike. Singh, given the unique spiritual designation “Siri Singh Sahib” by the elected leaders of the SGPC and Shiromani Akali Dal in 1971 for his work spreading Sikh teachings in the west, also brought a visionary sense and a global perspective to the situation. In the first month of 1980, Singh was visited by a terrible vision of destruction at the Golden Temple. In response, he had 250 letters sent to Sikh leaders in India urging them to unite in order to avoid a tidal wave of destruction within two years. Singh also spent January and February of that year in India meeting with leaders on all sides with a view to preventing that outcome. This effort continued in his annual visits to India through 1984.

    As it turned out, the Sikhs belonging to the Congress party, namely the Giani Zail Singh the Home Minister, Darbara Singh the Chief Minister in Punjab, the Maharaja of Patiala - Amarinder Singh, and Buta Singh kept apart from their Akali party counterparts until June 1984 when Amarinder Singh turned in his party membership and, for a time joined the Akali party. On the Akali side, by August 1980, it was divided into two factions. That rift endured for two years, until the two groups joined with the group led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale to prosecute the civil disobedience campaign against the Central Government under the leadership of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal and six other members of a designated high command, namely Parkash Singh Badal – former Chief Minister of Punjab, Gurcharan Singh Tohra – President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Jagdev Singh Talwandi, Surjit Singh Barnala – former Union Agriculture Minister, Sukhjinder Singh – former Punjab Minister, and Ravi Inder Singh – former Speaker of the Punjab Legislature. This coalition held together until September 1983, when the increasing frustrations of negotiating with the Prime Minister began to take its toll in a growing division between hardliners led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Jagdev Singh Talwandi and the moderates led by Harchand Singh Longowal.

    In early 1982, Singh met with the Akali high command in Teja Singh Samundri Hall at the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar. On that occasion, he warned them of the danger in the international community of Sikhs being labeled as terrorists. Singh also advised the Sikh leaders that in Indira Gandhi's gambit to win popular support she could either send the Indian army into Sri Lanka to protect the Tamil minority there or she could target the Sikhs. Either way, she could come out as “saviour of the Hindus”. According to Singh, the choice belonged to the Sikh leaders. He advised they conduct an information campaign using the Sikh President of India, Giani Zail Singh as a symbol to show the world Sikhs are peaceful people. The leaders, all of them members of the Akali party, however could not fathom using their long-time political foe as a positive instrument for peace and self-preservation. Harbajan Singh also suggested highlighting the tradition of Bhai Khanaiya as the first Red Cross Society in history and the tradition of Guru Gobind Singh whose arrows were embedded with gold so even enemies who died could have their last rites done gracefully. He proposed that Baba Nihal Singh, the leader of the Taruna Dal of Nihung Sikhs based in Harianbela be made the head priest of the Akal Takhat, the Sikh seat of temporal authority. He also promised that if they did this and afterwards anything untoward happened to the Nation of Khalsa, he would present himself before them to receive any punishment they would like to award. Rather, he promised that if Baba Nihal Singh were made Jathedar of the Akal Takhat, Sikhs would come through their trial with victory and grace. This proposal was also unacceptable to the political leadership. For all Singh's advice and consideration, the leaders did not alter their tactics.

    On Singh's visit to Amritsar in 1983, he was summoned by Baba Kharak Singh, the elderly and widely respected builder and maintainer of holy places. Then, in the presence of Sant Harchand Singh, Sant Jarnail Singh, and Abhinashi Singh, the SGPC Secretary, Baba Kharak Singh gave him two blankets, four embroidered sheets, and 800 rupees as an offering of appreciation. He then predicted that there would be a time of great pain in the west and the east. As a remedy, Baba Kharak Singh dispensed a mantra for Singh to recite: “Aap sahaa-ee ho-aa, sachay daa, sachaa DHo-aa.” Baba Kharak Singh said to him: “In the west, you are going to be hit with a lot of pain, but these Sikhs may not be ready to take that pain. Therefore, chant this mantra: 'Aap sahaa-ee ho-aa, sachay daa, sachaa DHo-aa.'” Harbhajan Singh took it and then he said: “Don't doubt me. You think I am an old man? I don't know anything?” Harbhajan Singh said: “No, no, no. I don't doubt you. It's alright. What kind of hurt?” Baba Kharak Singh said: “None of your business! Don't ask questions. But I will tell you a story. In such-and-such a Gurdwara there was a man who made our life miserable and I went to Santji (my respected teacher). I told him, this man is making our life miserable, teasing us, beating us, and trying to do all kinds of treacheries. And then he said, “Chant this verse: 'Aap sahaa-ee ho-aa, sachay daa, sachaa DHo-aa' and the enemy dissolves.”” Singh subsequently urged all his students to chant the verse each day during the heat of the crisis.

    When the mobilization against India's Central Government turned ugly with the targeted killing of six Hindu bus passengers at Dhilwan, Punjab on October 5, 1983, he sent money to the victims' families and a telegram to the Sant Harchand Singh Longowal to call a halt to the campaign for a few weeks, until peace returned. When the Golden Temple complex was then attacked and overrun by the Indian Army during Operation Blue Star, Singh proclaimed that the event marked the end of a dynasty. He also uniquely advised that the Akal Takhat had martyred itself to awaken the Sikh nation.

    Singh's contact with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in the summer of 1983 may have instrumental in the pontiff's awareness of Sikhs and his timely proclamation of goodwill at the time of the Golden Temple attack and massacre. He was also persuasive in keeping India's Sikh President, Giani Zail Singh from resigning his position in protest, a move that he anticipated would bring on even greater disunity and bloodshed. Singh encouraged his students to send telegrams to the President, urging him to stay on.

    Singh convened a conference in New Mexico, June 23–25, 1984 to chart a response to events in India. The outcome of the gathering was an agreement on a series of objectives including an international investigation of the disaster, free media access to Punjab, proper medical care to the wounded, the return of Sikh temples to Sikh control, the release of Sikh prisoners, withdrawal of the army, police and paramilitaries from Punjab, and restoration of civil rights to Sikhs throughout India. Singh suspected a larger Soviet agenda behind the humiliating destruction, which he termed the “martyrdom of the Akal Takhat”. The Soviets and their influential Marxist allies in India needed to eliminate or demoralize the Sikhs in order to achieve their objective of a secular, Communist state in south Asia. The plucky Sikhs were targeted because they found to be prosperous, essential to India's agriculture and its armed forces, and proven opponents of political oppression. The first objective of the Soviet plan was to discredit Sikhs as violent terrorists. In a November 1984 interview, he described Jarnail Singh Bindranwala as an “armed plant”. He also accused the KGB of involvement in Mrs. Gandhi's assassination, saying the Soviet Union preferred a weaker Rajiv as Prime Minister over his powerful, independently-minded mother.

    Unlike many Sikh leaders in the west, Singh was cool to the idea of a small separatist homeland where Sikhs might find security. He pointed out that whenever Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister, the so-called “President of Khalistan” would be at his post in London, but when she was out of power, he would come to India. Why, Singh asked, was this? Singh's vision was vast, global, and inclusive. Rather than Khalistan, he vouched for “Duniastan” - the World as a homeland for all Sikhs (in Punjabi: "dunia" = world, "stan" = land).

    As the international media and human rights observers were kept out of Punjab, indiscriminate arrests, tortures and killings by the police left an estimated 10,000 civilians dead, and hundreds more of the visible minority Sikhs disappeared or detained without charges or trial. Singh continued throughout the crisis to press for justice, forgiveness and reconciliation.

    Work for nuclear disarmament[link]

    In 1982 Singh joined other civil leaders in demanding mutual nuclear disarmament.

    Singh's efforts took the form of his speaking at a number of disarmament rallies and his mobilization of his students, encouraging them to talk to their friends and relatives about the dangers of nuclear war.

    Shortly after Singh began his activism again the U.S. government's defense policy, the special Sikh exemption which allowed Sikh males to serve wearing their distinctive turbans and beards was disallowed.

    Sikh unity[link]

    In 1974, a distinguished delegation of Sikhs from India toured North America and Europe and offered their approval of Singh's work. The group consisted of Gurcharan Singh Tohra, President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Mahinder Singh Giani, Secretary of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Sardar Hukam Singh, President of the Sri Guru Singh Sabha Shatabdhi Committee (and former Speaker of the Indian Parliament and Governor of Rajasthan), and Surjit Singh Barnala, General Secretary of the Shiromani Akali Dal.

    While some Sikhs, including a Jathedar of the Akal Takhat, subsequently criticized Singh, deeming his administrative titles, structures and symbols as heterodox, in 1979 the Professor of Sikhism designated by the Akal Takhat, Dr. Kapur Singh, came from Amritsar and addressed the Khalsa Council, Singh's governing council, and assured their practices were well within the parameters of Sikh tradition.

    In 1986, as the Khalistan movement (Sikh separatist movement within India) exerted an increasingly divisive role in the Sikh community by splitting Sikhs between those who demanded an independent homeland using violent means if necessary to achieve that goal and Sikhs who wished to work toward a peaceful resolution, Singh acknowledged Bhai Sahib Bhai Jiwan Singh of the Akhand Kirtani Jatha as Jathedar (Secretary) of Sikh Unity.

    Although he was instrumental in creating a new culture of Sikhs in the Western Hemisphere – Gursikh yogis speaking English, Spanish, German and Italian – Singh did not appreciate artificial divisions dividing Sikhs from one another, whether based on caste, race, nationality or any other grounds. He valued Sikh unity and always considered himself a Sikh first and last. This was ably and aptly reflected in the new media of Sikhnet.com which today serves Sikhs around the globe. It was begun by students of Singh in 1983 while the internet was still in its infancy – and has since grown to be the largest Sikh resource in cyberspace.

    Political influence in U.S.[link]

    Singh was not in the least naive about the importance of being politically connected if one wanted to succeed in the United States, and did not shy from political functions. While he opposed the Reagan government’s regime of high debt and high unemployment, Singh appreciated a strong foreign policy and especially U.S. efforts to dislodge the Soviet Union from Afghanistan.

    As early as 1970, Singh was known to call on members of Congress in their Washington offices. He also befriended successive governors of the state of New Mexico. Singh was known as a Democrat. Since 1980, he was both friend and adviser to Bill Richardson, who served variously as New Mexico governor (2002–present), U.S. Energy Secretary (1998–2001), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1997–98), and member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1982–97). Bill Richardson was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination to run for the office of U.S. President in 2008.

    Healing arts[link]

    When U.S. President Nixon called drugs America's "Number one domestic problem," Singh launched a pilot program with two longtime heroin addicts in Washington, D.C. in 1972. The next year, a full-blown drug treatment center known as "3HO SuperHealth" was launched in Tucson, Arizona. The program used Kundalini Yoga, diet and massage therapy to cure the addicts. It distinguished itself in 1978 as being among the top 10% of all treatment programs throughout the United States, with a recovery rate of 91%.

    Early on, when the term "stress" was still practically unheard of, Singh warned his students a tidal wave of insanity would soon engulf modern industrialized societies. As a remedy, Singh taught hundreds of techniques of yogic exericise and meditation. Many have been catalogued by their traditionally known effects in calming and healing the mind and body. Some of those techniques have been scientifically studied and applied in clinical practice with favorable results.

    One of the most noteworthy successes has been achieved by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., whose holistic treatment of Alzheimers disease using yoga with other therapeutic modalities has been lauded by the U.S. Surgeon General.

    Business life[link]

    Singh encouraged his students to go into business and served as a trusted adviser to a number of profitable enterprises. The best known of these are the Yogi Tea Company which packages and markets his tea formulas, Golden Temple Bakery which specializes in natural cereal products, the Soothing Touch health and beauty care products company, Akal Security and the Yoga West Center in Los Angeles.

    Ten percent of the profits of Peace Cereals go to the annual Peace Prayer Day, held at Ram Das Puri, near Santa Fe, New Mexico.

    Miri Piri Academy[link]

    In 1998, Singh founded the Miri Piri Academy at a short distance outside of Amritsar, India. The distinctive boarding school offers studies in a regular curriculum, plus Sikh studies and a daily regimen of yoga, meditation and service. Currently, students of seventeen nationalities are enrolled.

    Notable students[link]

  • Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa
  • Alfredo Sfeir-Younis
  • Dharma Singh Khalsa
  • Gurmukh (yoga teacher)
  • Singh Kaur
  • Snatam Kaur
  • Media coverage[link]

    Singh received significant coverage in the North American media, particularly in the early 1970s when yoga was still a matter of general curiosity.

    Singh's message of no drugs, family values and healthy living was widely popular, and many of the media stories were positive, serving not only to educate the public, but also to publicize the work of the 3HO Foundation. Some focused on the lifestyle, others on the inspiration behind the organization. Others focused on Singh's holistic approach to drug addiction. Some writers reported on Singh's officiating at mass marriages where many couples would be betrothed and everyone wore white. Others zeroed in on the issue of Sikhs up against the US Army dress code.

    While ''Newsweek'', ''USA Today'' and ''Macleans Magazine'' in Canada published favorable articles about Singh in 1977, James Wilde of ''Time'' wrote a critical article that year, titled "Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism". The ''Time'' article claimed the 3HO leader inspired hostility, quoting embittered former students who alleged sexual improprieties on the part of Yogi Bhajan. Wilde also alleged that Gurucharan Singh Tohra, former President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), had stated that Singh is not the Sikh leader of Sikhism in the Western World as he claimed, and that Tohra had denied the gurdwara committee has ever given the title of Siri Singh Sahib to Singh.

    The ''Time'' article was followed by emphatic rebuttals from Tohra. There was also a demonstration held outside ''Time'''s London office and a detailed demand for a retraction published under the title "Time Will Tell" in the 3HO publication ''Beads of Truth'', Issue 36, Fall 1977.

    Singh is mentioned in a range of reference works, including the ''New Age Encyclopedia''. Western scholarly appraisal of his work may be found in Hew McLeod's ''Who is a Sikh?'' and ''Sikhism'', and in Verne A. Dusenbery's article "Punjabi Sikhs and Gora Sikhs: Conflicting Assertions of Sikh Identity in North America".

    BBC interviewed Singh at the 300th anniversary celebration of the Baisakhi holiday at Anandpur Sahib, India in 1999.

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

    The 1973 documentary ''Sunseed'' stars a number of teachers of eastern wisdom, including Singh. The Sunseed crew accompanied him to India in 1970-71 for the filming.

    Honors[link]

    As well as his title "Siri Singh Sahib" awarded to him at the holy Akal Takhat in Amritsar in 1971, Singh was also designated "Bhai Sahib" in 1974.

    The Peace Abbey of Sherborn, Massachusetts awarded Singh the Courage of Conscience award on November 17, 1995.

    In 1999, at the three hundedth anniversary of the founding of the Order of Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, India, Singh was awarded another rare honorific, the title "Panth Rattan" – Jewel of the Sikh nation.

    After his death, Singh joined a select few – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, and Pope John Paul II – in having members of the U.S. Congress pass a bipartisan resolution honoring his life and work.

    Obituaries[link]

    Singh died of complications of heart failure at his home in Española, New Mexico, on October 6, 2004, aged 75. He was survived by his wife, sons, daughter and five grandchildren. Singh's passing was widely noted in the press, with obituaries appearing in ''The Los Angeles Times'', the ''Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and ''Yoga Journal''.

    In addition, his passing was noted by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, which closed its offices to commemorate Singh's death.

    The State of New Mexico honored him by naming of a highway after him. It is called the Yogi Bhajan Memorial Highway.

    Sikh scholars' views on Singh's mission[link]

    Singh's work has received mixed reactions among mainstream Sikhs.

    Bhai Sahib Sardar Kapur Singh, a Sikh scholar recognized by the Akal Takht, praised Singh highly for his work in spreading Sikhism in the West.

    Dr. Fauja Singh, M.A., Ph.D, Professor and Director, Department of History and Punjab Historical Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala, India praised Singh's marriage of yoga and religion, saying "he has helped to retrieve [yoga] from its distorted image of the medieval period and has restored it to its original and meaningful usage and purpose, that is to say, the desire to attain union with God through its agency."

    On the other hand, Dr. Trilochan Singh, author of over twenty books on Sikh history, published a treatise in 1977 highly critical of Singh entitled "Sikhism and Tantric Yoga." Dr. Singh argued that Kundalini and Tantric yoga has no place in traditional Sikhism. In James Wilde's ''Time'' article of September 5, 1977 “Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism,” Dr. Trilochan Singh proffered his opinion that "Bhajan's synthesis of Sikhism and Tantrism is a sacrilegious hodgepodge."

    Publications[link]

  • Yogi Bhajan, The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan, Santa Cruz, NM, Kundalini Research Institute, 1977.
  • Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji (Yogi Bhajan), Furmaan Khalsa: Poems to Live By, Columbus, Ohio, Furman Khalsa Publishing Company, 1987.
  • Yogi Bhajan, The Master's Touch, Santa Cruz, NM, Kundalini Research Institute, 1997.
  • Yogi Bhajan with Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets, Espanola, New Mexico, Kundalini Research Institute, 1997.
  • Yogi Bhajan, The Aquarian Teacher - KRI International Kundalini Yoga Certification Text and Manual, Santa Cruz, NM, Kundalini Research Institute, 2003.
  • Yogi Bhajan, The Game of Love, A Book of Consciousness: The Poems and Art of Yogi Bhajan, Espanola, NM, Sikh Dharma International, 2007.
  • Yogi Bhajan, Man to Man: A Journal of Discovery for the Conscious Man, Santa Cruz, NM, Kundalini Research Institute, 2008.
  • Yogi Bhajan, I am a Woman: Book and Yoga Manual, Santa Cruz, NM, Kundalini Research Institute, 2009.
  • References[link]

    Further reading[link]

  • Khalsa, Guru Fatha Singh, ''The Essential Gursikh Yogi: The Yoga and Yogis in the Past, Present and Future of Sikh Dharma'', Toronto, Monkey Minds Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9682658-2-6
  • Khalsa, Guru Fatha Singh, ''Five Paragons of Peace: Magic and Magnificence in the Guru's Way'', Toronto, Monkey Minds Press, 2010, ISBN 978-9682658-1-9, On-line at: http://www.gurufathasingh.com/five-paragons-of-peace.html
  • Khalsa, Sat Kirpal Kaur and Sardarni Premka Kaur Khalsa, editors, ''The Man Called Siri Singh Sahib'', Los Angeles, Sikh Dharma, 1979, no ISBN
  • Khalsa, Shakti Parwha Kaur, ''Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Eternal Power'', New York, Perigree Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-3995242-0-2
  • Khalsa, Shanti Kaur, ''The History of Sikh Dharma in the Western Hemisphere,'' ISBN 978-09639847-4-8
  • Lal, Harbans, "Celebrating the Life of Yogi Harbhajan Singh Ji", Kolkata, ''The Sikh Review'', October 2007.
  • Laue, Thorsten: ''Tantra im Westen. Eine religionswissenschaftliche Studie über „Weißes Tantra Yoga“, „Kundalini Yoga“ und „Sikh Dharma“ in Yogi Bhajans „Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization“ (3HO) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der „3H Organisation Deutschland e. V.“'', Münster: LIT, 2012, zugl.: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 2011, ISBN 978-3643114471 [in German]
  • Laue, Thorsten: ''Kundalini Yoga, Yogi Tee und das Wassermannzeitalter. Bibliografische Einblicke in die Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization (3HO) des Yogi Bhajan.'' Tübingen: 2008. Online at [in German]
  • Laue, Thorsten: ''Kundalini Yoga, Yogi Tee und das Wassermannzeitalter. Religionswissenschaftliche Einblicke in die Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization (3HO) des Yogi Bhajan'', Münster: LIT, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0140-3 [in German]
  • McDonald, Sherri Buri, "Yogi’s legacy in question" in ''The Register-Guard'', May 9, 2010.
  • McDonald, Sherri Buri, "Golden Temple Reorganization Called Conspiracy" in ''The Register-Guard'', May 26, 2011.
  • Shameel, Balraam: ''Singh Yogee - Pachhmee dhartee dee sikh lehar. Bhaaee Harbhajan Singh Yogee Jee dee roohaanee jeevan'', Lokgeet Parkashan, Chandigarh, 2005 [in Punjabi]
  • External links[link]

  • The 3HO website
  • Legacy of Yogi Bhajan
  • Category:Indian emigrants to the United States Category:1929 births Category:2004 deaths Category:American Sikhs Category:Punjabi people Category:American people of Indian descent Category:Yogis

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    nameT. J. Miller
    birth nameTodd Joseph Miller
    birth dateJune 04, 1981
    birth placeDenver, Colorado, U.S.
    occupationActor, comedian
    yearsactive2007–present
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    Todd Joseph Miller (born June 4, 1981), better known as T. J. Miller, is an American actor and stand-up comedian.

    Life and career[link]

    Miller was born in Denver, Colorado. He attended East High School. Miller then attended the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. where he was a member of the comedy group receSs and the Lambda chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa.

    Stand-up comedy[link]

    Miller was selected as a new face in the 2007 HBO ''Aspen Comedy Arts Festival''. He appeared as Marmaduke Brooker in the TV series ''Carpoolers''. Miller has co-hosted on the comedy radio show ''Red Bar Radio'' a number of times.

    Miller was named one of ''Variety'' magazine's Top Ten Comics to Watch in 2008, and also one of ''Entertainment Weekly'''s 12 rising stars of comedy.

    On December 13, 2010 and October 28, 2011, he performed stand-up on ''Conan''.

    Miller appears frequently as a member of the "round table" on ''Chelsea Lately''.

    On November 15, 2011, TJ Miller's stand-up special "No Real Reason" premiered on Comedy Central. Topics include his ex-wife Karen of 27 years, getting his driver's license, and open-source coding.

    Film acting[link]

    Miller plays Hudson "Hud" Platt in the 2008 feature film ''Cloverfield''. In 2009, he played Cessna Jim in ''The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard''. In 2010, he co-starred in ''She's Out of My League'' as Stainer, provided the voice of Tuffnut in the animated film ''How to Train Your Dragon'', played Brian the Concierge in ''Get Him to the Greek'' and appeared in a supporting role in the film ''Unstoppable''. He also played Dan in ''Gulliver's Travels'', released in December 2010.

    Miller played the supporting character of Ranger Jones in the live-action ''Yogi Bear'' 2010 film. Unlike his character on the cartoon show, he is "dumb-but-not-in-a-funny-way," according to the ''Buffalo News''. Miller was cast in the part after two auditions; as a joke, he sent Warner Bros. an improvised video audition with an actual bear, though he had already been offered the part before they received it.

    In 2011, he appeared in the film ''Our Idiot Brother''.

    Video Games[link]

    Miller played as one of the hosts on a radio station in ''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas''.

    Podcasting[link]

  • Miller is a frequent guest on Doug Benson's podcast ''Doug Loves Movies''.
  • Miller and friend Cash Levy's podcast titled ''Cashing in With TJ Miller'' began airing in March 2012.
  • Filmography[link]

    Title Year Role Notes
    ''Carpoolers'' 2007–2008 Marmaduke Brooker
    ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'' 2007 Nightclub Bouncer
    ''Cloverfield'' 2008 Hudson "Hud" Platt
    ! scope="row" 2009 Rory
    '''' 2009 Cessna Jim
    ''She's Out of My League'' 2010 Wendell aka "Stainer"
    ! scope="row" 2010 Tuffnut Voice
    ''Get Him to the Greek'' 2010 Brian the Concierge
    ! scope="row" 2010 Gilleece
    ! scope="row" 2010 Ranger Jones
    ! scope="row" 2010 Dan
    ''Our Idiot Brother'' 2011 Billy
    ''Charlie On Parole'' 2011 Charlie (short film)
    ''Happy Endings'' 2011 Shershow Television
    ! scope="row" 2011 Prancer Voice
    ''Seeking a Friend for the End of the World'' 2012 Chipper Host
    ''How to Train Your Dragon 2'' 2014 Tuffnut Voice

    References[link]

    External links[link]

  • T. J. Miller's corporate comedy with Prestige Comedians, Inc
  • Interview from March 27, 2007
  • TJ Miller Stand Up Comedy Videos on Effinfunny.com
  • Interview with Miller, ''TV Guide'', December 4, 2010.
  • Charlie On Parole
  • Category:1981 births Category:American comedians Category:American film actors Category:American television actors Category:American voice actors Category:American stand-up comedians Category:George Washington University alumni Category:Living people Category:People from Denver, Colorado

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