Harbhajan Singh Khalsa

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Indian yogi, spiritual teacher, and entrepreneur, also known as Yogi Bhajan and Siri Singh Sahib to his followers, who introduced Kundalini Yoga to the United States. He was the spiritual director of the 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) Foundation, with over 300 centres in 35 countries. Harbhajan Singh emigrated to Canada in mid 1968. Late that year, he went to visit a friend in Los Angeles, but ended up staying to share the teachings of Kundalini Yoga with members of the counterculture of California and New Mexico. In spring of 1969, soon after Harbhajan 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. Yogi Bhajan incorporated the storyline of the dawning new age into his teachings, a case of melding Western astrology with Sikh tradition. He proclaimed "Guru Nanak was the Guru for the Aquarian Age." It was, Harbhajan Singh 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. Yogi Bhajan's timeline for the arrival of the Aquarian age varied over the years, but in 1992, he fixed it at 2012 and gave his students a set of morning meditations to practice until that date to prepare themselves. Harbhajan Singh Khalsa died of complications of heart failure at his home in Española, New Mexico, on 6 October 2004, aged 75. He was survived by his wife, sons, daughter and five grandchildren. Link to Wikipedia biography