Yogi Bhajan

Yogi Bhajan was born Harbhajan Singh Puri, on August 26, 1929, in the small village Kot Harkam in the district of Gujaranwala which was then a part of India and now of Pakistan. He studied Kundalini Yoga, Tantric Yoga and Gong Meditation underneath the direction of Sant Hazara Singh, master of Kundalini yoga and Mahan Tantric of the time. Besides studying Kundalini and Tantric Yoga, Yogi Bhajan took further training in yoga under Acharya Narinder Dev of Yoga Smriti , who taught Hatha Yoga and the impact and balance of the Nervous system. This was to prove invaluable when he came to the West, where he would find a generation of spiritual seekers suffering from disorders of the Nervous system due to drug use - He came to America in the 60's. But before that chapter commences, he married in 1953 and raised three children with his wife Sardarni Inderjit Kaur, he completed his formal education and holds a Ph.D in Psychology. He pursued a a career as a government officer and lived a householders life.

Many events would lead to him finally departing his home country to commence an entirely new phase of his life. When he arrived in L.A he immediately sensed that this was the centre of the the youth movement toward self knowledge, self discovery and expression or real and meaningful relationships. He realised thaht he had been guided there to share his knowledge, he was extremely well equipped to help fufill the longing of these searching souls. He began teaching Kundalini Yoga at the East-West Cultural Centre and then in a furniture store on Melrose Avenue, in December 1968.

In 1971 he became the Master of White Tantric, The Mahan Tantric of our time.

From the outset he declared that :

"I have come here to create Teachers, not to gather students"


By the time he departed his physical body on October 6 , at 9pm, 2004, the recognised man of peace had created an institution internationally recognised the world over for its integrity. And as he had promised, created thousands of Teachers to help humanity, as we transition into the Aquarian Age.


Here is an excerpt from his final recorded lecture on Sunday, October 3, 2004:

"God and soul are permanent. Everlasting. We are bound to go. One day you will be at that stage. The body will become the permanent soul. Let us understand we are the infinite ray of God...Life is to live for each other. It is to live for each other."