Yogi Bhajan was a liar! I challenge 3HO to prove that YB was a master of Kundalini Yoga at the age of sixteen. Academic study shows the Kundalini Yoga of Yogi Bhajan is a fraud! https://youtube/watch?v=DOp0O05dLrY 1: YB was a pathological liar. It has been shown on the Wacko World of Yogi Bhajan, time and time again, that YB told many, many lies. He was especially prone to lie about his achievements and qualifications. Let us look at some of the more egregious examples: a) He led his village out of Pakistan during the time of Partition. Well, not according to YB’s own father. Upon leaving India in 1972, before he was exposed to YB’s revised life history, Papaji told how YB was actually at the rear of the village column, helping his mother who was falling further and further behind. Eventually he ran to the head of the column and pointed a gun at the man who actually was the actual leader of the group. The young YB then threatened to shoot him if something was not done about his mother’s plight. This shows his determined nature but does not match the legend as told by YB himself. b) He was a master of Kundalini Yoga at the age of sixteen. In the very first interview that YB gave after coming to Canada, the interviewer asked him how old he was when he started practicing yoga. YB said that he was eighteen. So, either he was lying then or he has been lying for all these years about being a sixteen year old master of KY. I know which one I think is more likely. c) He was Yogi Bhajan Ph.D. Yogi Bhajan was a pathological liar! Yogi Bhajan received his fake Ph.D from what is called a diploma mill in the US. That place has now gone out of business. Oh, and by the way, Yogi Bhajans students wrote his fake thesis on some psychobabble that spewed out of Bhajans mouth. It’s true of course that YB was given a Ph.D. by some diploma mill in Northern Cal. It’s also common knowledge that his thesis was written by MSS Gurcharan Singh. This was perhaps not a direct lie but certainly dishonest and probably illegal. 2: There is no historical precedent in Sikhi for the SSS title. It is well known that there is no clergy in Sikhi. There are granthi(an) but these are not ministers. YB always said that he wanted to create ministers to give legal standing to his non-profit corporations and so that marriages performed by SD ministers would be legal. This is fair enough but it does not alter the fact that all titles that he gave are without precedent in Sikh history and SRM; and therefore not representative of Sikhi. It is true that the Jathedars of the five takhats are given the title “Singh Sahib” and, as I will show later, I believe that YB was also given the title. But the idea of one person – male or female – having absolute authority over any group of Sikhs is unprecedented in Sikhi since the demise of Guru Gobind Singh ji. That is why I believe, had there ever been any discussion amongst the SGPC over the SSS title, it would have been soundly rejected. Of course in various dere, the Sant or Baba holds supreme authority. And that is what 3HO/SD was during YB’s lifetime: a dera. Whether it still is now is debatable and not really germane to this discussion. I will add some material from Dr. Trilochan Singh’s book Sikhism and Tantric Yoga to add clarity to this isuue: There is no such Ecclesiastical title as Siri Singh Sahib, and others ridiculously created by Yogi Bhajan, such as Mukhia Singh Sahib, and Khalsa. The Head Priest of Golden Temple and the Jathedars of the Four Takhats are called Singh Sahib (without the prefix Siri) only as long as they are serving these institutions. Giani Bhupinder Singh was called Singh Sahib as long as he was Head Granthi of Golden Temple (about 12 years) and when he entered politics he is simply called Giani Bhupinder Singh and never Singh Sahib. When any person is installed as Head Priest or Jathedar of Takhat there is a special ceremony performed for it. No such ceremony was performed for Yogi Bhajan. No Singh Sahib can be called a Yogi or by half name as Bhajan signs himself, nor can he ever put any other surname except Singh. There cannot be a Singh Sahib without the suffix Singh as the final surname. Only such a theologian or a learned man can be installed as Singh Sahib who can interpret Adi Guru Granth, Bhai Gurdas, Suraj Prakash; and they have to deliver sermons on the basis of the interpretations of these works every day. Yogi Bhajan cannot read correctly or interpret any thirty pages of these voluminous works. Nor does he keep Rehat (the Essential Sikh Code of Conduct as the Khalsa should do). On the other hand he has installed more Singh Sahibs among his followers than have been created in 200 years of the history of Amritsar. Everyone who becomes his follower is given the certificate and title of Khalsa. Khalsa is not a title that can be doled out as Yogi Bhajan is doing to his Tantric disciples. 3: The denials that the title was ever given, first by an SGPC member and then its president. From Dr Trilochan Singh’s book Sikhism and Tantric Yoga: gurmukhyoga/forum/index.php?mode=page&id=1 I met a very prominent sitting member of S.G.P.C. who is touring the U.S.A. and Canada for an undeclared mission. I showed him all the documents quoted in this chapter and asked him how on earth could the S.G.P.C. do such an absurd thing. He admitted that the S.G.P.C, being composed of more politicians than religious men, has in the past committed some serious errors which when pointed out by theologians and scholars have been corrected, but as he had attended all the meetings in 1970-1974 no such title was ever sanctioned by S.G.P.C. Executive. (my emphasis added) All S.G.P.C. resolutions are published in Gurdwara Gazette. A Robe of honor was given to Yogi Bhajan in 1974 on the recommendation of President Taura, but a Robe of honor does not carry any title with it, nor does it give authority of any kind. If Yogi Bhajan had been made any such Chief of the Western Sikhs in 1971 then a Robe of honor in 1974 was meaningless. As I have recently posted, in a 1977 Time Magazine article it is stated: High Priest Gurucharan Singh Tohra, president of the management committee for northern Indias 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 that 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, which he uses. 4: What really happened in 1971? That he was honoured at the Akal Takhat is beyond doubt; thanks to MrSingh we have the pictures to prove it. But what honor was given? He was similarly honored in 1974. Everyone seems to agree that, upon that second occasion, he was given the title of Bhai Sahib. In 1971 there was no one on that trip who could speak Punjabi other than YB himself. Since I can assume with close to absolute certainty that the ceremony was conducted in Punjabi, the only source who told the group – if indeed they were even told – that the SSS title was given would have been YB himself. I was around when the jatha left for India in December of 1970 and I was around when they returned. No one spoke about any title given to YB, not even YB himself. Yogi Bhajans gora Sikhs! The true history behind 1970 Yatra (trip) to India! https://youtube/watch?v=PIrH2XQHySo I never heard YB mention the SSS title until perhaps 1973, certainly never in 1972. If he had been given this illustrious title, why not use it immediately? Not conclusive proof, I agree, but again it points to YB as the only source of the information that he had supposedly received this great honor. 5: The April 1971 Gurdwara Gazette The Gurdwara Gazette is the official organ of the SGPC. All of its actions are recorded therein. The April 1971 edition has the report on the visit by the Americans to Amritsar. The words “Siri Singh Sahib” are nowhere to be found in this issue. Had there been an official award of the SSS title to Yogi Bhajan, it would certainly have been reported in this magazine. The fact that it was not shows that it is almost certain that no such title was given. 6: The SGPC proclamation that was missing a word. Former MSS Vikram Singh happened to be at the GRD Estate in the late 1970s. By chance he observed a document that had been left lying on the dining room table. This was a proclamation from the SGPC giving YB the title of Singh Sahib. You will notice that there is a significant word missing. I have discussed this at length with Vikram and he is adamant that was what he saw. He was quite surprised and looked again and again to make sure that there was no “Siri” on the page. Vikram says that he had the idea previously that YB was making the whole thing up but he didn’t say anything as he didn’t want to have his face ripped off and, as so many of us did, continued to go along with the charade. Now does it make sense that, if the SGPC had clearly given him the SSS title previously, they would issue a proclamation that did not use it? 7: The YB portrait in the Sikh Museum. Gursant Singh recently gave us some information about the YB portrait in Amritsar’s Sikh Museum. “I heard back from my source in Amritsar and it appears the Yogi Bhajan portrait in the Sikh museum at the Darbar Sahib contains the text for his name Bhai Sahib Bhai Harbajan Singh Yogi Youd think that if the SGPC gave him a title like Siri Singh Sahib, theyd proudly display it under YBs portrait for the world to see in the main Sikh museum”. So there we have it. The mystery of an unprecedented title – Siri Singh Sahib - which was eagerly embraced by the Bhajanists yet almost never used by the Punjabis, in particular the SGPC. I believe it was self-bestowed and I will continue to do so until I am shown otherwise. Someone recently posted that they thought YB was brave. I think that a better word would be chutzpah. From Wikipedia: Chutzpah ( /ˈhʊtspə/) is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad, but it is generally used positively. The Yiddish word derives from the Hebrew word ḥuṣpâ (חֻצְפָּה), meaning insolence, audacity. The modern English usage of the word has taken on a broader meaning, having been popularized through vernacular use in film, literature, and television. The word has also been able to be interpreted as meaning the amount of spunk or ability that an individual has. In more traditional usage, chutzpah is invariably negative. Do I think that YB would have had the chutzpah to shamelessly propagate this SSS myth for so long? Absolutely. We could go on about the Mahan Tantric, Lama Lilian Po (sp?) and the lies about YB’s form of KY being an ancient science. The point is that we are looking at someone who seemed to have no hesitation in falsifying qualifications in order to make him appear grander to the world.
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