“He was very spectacular,” says Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa, one of his original students. On the eve of his memorial, they recalled the early days when Bhajan was a good-looking Indian mystic in his 30s, who wore a turban, a long black beard and black velvet shoes turned up at the toes. hippies - actors, musicians and seekers - who forsook their American ways in the late 1960s and early ‘70s to become the first western Sikhs and kundalini colonists. It’s a tale passed on by the original cadre of L.A. The event will be broadcast live over the Internet to yoga centers and ashrams all over the world.īhajan’s is a fantastic story, and according to his followers his success came from a diverse mix of reincarnation, Hinduism, telepathy, mysticism, political savvy and a larger-than-life persona. 6 of heart failure at his home in Espanola, N.M., and today hundreds of his devotees and state dignitaries will gather there at his Hacienda de Guru Ram Das ashram to pray, chant and sing in his memory. Before he was Yogi Bhajan - kundalini master, Sikh missionary, lifestyle sage and political advisor with 300 yoga centers and 4,000 instructors, more than a dozen corporations and $1 billion in government contracts for security - he was Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Puri, an ex-civil servant who landed in Los Angeles at the dawn of the city’s guru boom and inspired the hippie masses with his movie star charisma and exotic health regimen.īhajan, 75, died Oct.
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