Fwd: * beloved master of Kundalini Yoga & Meditation has passed at age 75 *

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1. NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE ON THE PASSING

   OF A GREAT TEACHER, YOGI BHAJAN

2. TONIGHT IN NYC, MEMORIAL GURDWARA

3. RECOMENDED MEDITATIONS TO DO AT THIS TIME

4. SUNRISE SADHANA IN MEMORY OF YOGIJI

5. NY TIMES ARTICLE ON YOGIJI FROM 09.28.04

 

 

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Sat Nam and Blessings to All,

 

On the evening of Wednesday October 6th at his home in Espanola New Mexico, Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga & Meditation, passed from his earthly body.

 

He traveled to the US in 1969, as he put it, not to gain followers but to create teachers, saying, "Teachers are professional reminders that the sun, moon, and stars are your teachers."

 

The Yoga community has lost a great master, but the teachings will continue to live on in the many whose lives he has touched and in the lives they touch as time continues through the connection of the golden chain. http://yellowbellmusic.com/sounds/satanama/ong_namo.mp3

 

I am amazed, touched, & thankful by the way the Kundalini Yoga community can communicate with each other in times like these and thankful to be able to share this information with you especialy if you have not already heard.

 

During this seventeen day period after his death many prayers will be chanted across the globe in honor of this great soul.

 

With love and gratitude we chant Akal (see item #3 below) - so as to let his soul not have attachments to this earthly plane & to celebrate his life as he journeys into Infinite light.

 

I feel Yogiji smiling at our unity in this time.

 

With Love,

 

Kudrat Kaur

 

official updates & photos: http://www.sikhnet.com/yogibhajan

 

 

 

 

*SPECIAL BULLITAN*

 

1. NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE ON THE PASSING

OF A GREAT TEACHER, YOGI BHAJAN

2. TONIGHT IN NYC, MEMORIAL GURDWARA

3. RECOMENDED MEDITATIONS TO DO AT THIS TIME

4. SUNRISE SADHANA IN MEMORY OF YOGIJI

5. NY TIMES ARTICLE ON YOGIJI FROM 09.28.04

 

 

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Sat Nam and Blessings to All,

 

On the evening of Wednesday October 6th at his home in Espanola New Mexico, Yogi

Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga & Meditation, passed from his earthly body.

 

He traveled to the US in 1969, as he put it, not to gain followers but to create

teachers, saying, " Teachers are professional reminders that the sun, moon, and

stars are your teachers. "

 

The Yoga community has lost a great master, but the teachings will continue to

live on in the many whose lives he has touched and in the lives they touch as

time continues through the connection of the golden chain.

http://yellowbellmusic.com/sounds/satanama/ong_namo.mp3

 

I am amazed, touched, & thankful by the way the Kundalini Yoga community can

communicate with each other in times like these and thankful to be able to share

this information with you especialy if you have not already heard.

 

During this seventeen day period after his death many prayers will be chanted

across the globe in honor of this great soul.

 

With love and gratitude we chant Akal (see item #3 below) - so as to let his

soul not have attachments to this earthly plane & to celebrate his life as he

journeys into Infinite light.

 

I feel Yogiji smiling at our unity in this time.

 

With Love,

 

Kudrat Kaur

 

official updates & photos: http://www.sikhnet.com/yogibhajan

 

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1.

NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE ON THE PASSING

OF A GREAT TEACHER, YOGI BHAJAN

 

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/yb.nsf/p/PressRelease

 

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Sat Nam. I send this with immeasurable love and prayers to the 3HO/Sikh Dharma

family and wish that there could have been a way to talk with each of you

personally, but because we wanted to communicate in a timely way, we know that

you understand that email is the fastest way.

 

And so it is with a great sense of loss that I am writing on behalf of the staff

and family of the Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) to let you know that he has

left his physical body. He joyfully accepted the will of God and Guru at 9 PM

Mountain Standard Time on the evening of October 6, 2004 in his dome in

Espanola, New Mexico. The cause was complications due to heart failure

 

Before leaving, he requested that this be a time of celebrating his going home.

During the traditional Sikh 17 day period of remembrance, culminating with a

memorial service, he has asked that we come together each day, chant, pray,

talk, serve food, and eat together.

 

The Siri Singh Sahib always taught us, that in times of joy and sorrow we should

come together to be with one another. It is with Sangat and Pangat that we will

find our true comfort and acceptance. So in his spirit, open your homes and

hearts, your Gurdwaras and yoga centers, and gather with all those who have

experienced the touch of the Master. Let this be a time for prayers and

reflection and a way to take care of our needs for comfort.

Mat mai pichhai ko-ee rovsee so mai mool na bhaa-i-aa.

Mit paijhai mit bigsai jis mit kee paij bhaav-ay.

 

Let no one weep for me after I am gone. That would not please me at all.

When a friend receives a robe of honor, then his friends are pleased with his

honor.

Guru Arjan Dev

Siri Guru Granth Sahib Page 923

 

The Siri Singh Sahib has guided this transition process and wanted you to know

that his family and all our organizations are secure and will continue in the

way that he has directed. Details of these arrangements will be forthcoming

shortly.

 

Arrangements for his cremation and Memorial Services are presently being planned

and will be posted at www.sikhnet.com/yogibhajan

 

You may also hear a recording with this information if you call (505) 367-1688.

The website and telephone message will be updated daily, and you can leave

messages at (505) 367-1661/1662. Please understand that most likely time will

not permit us to return all of your calls and messages.

 

We have been blessed for these 35 years to sit at the feet of The Master. It has

always been his prayer that we become 10 times greater than he. Now is the time

to imbibe the qualities that he so gracefully exhibited and taught us to make

our own: dignity, divinity, grace, commitment, courage, kindness, compassion,

tolerance, wisdom, and understanding. Mostly it was his love that has touched us

all so deeply.

 

In lieu of sending flowers, donations can be made to KRI for The Library of the

Teachings of Yogi Bhajan and sent to P.O. Box 249, Espanola, NM 87532.

 

Humbly, MSS Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa

Executive Secretary to Yogi Bhajan

 

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The Hindu

Yogi Harbhajan dies in US

New Delhi, Oct. 7 (UNI): Top spiritual leader Yogi Harbhajan, head of the Sikh

Dharma in the western hemisphere, has died in the US because of a heart

condition.

 

The Yogi is survived by his widow, two sons and a daughter.

 

According to information received here by the National Commission for Minorities

Chairman Tarlochan Singh, Harbhajan Singh Yogi or Yogi Harbhajan, as he was

popularly called, died at his Espanola home at 0940 pm local time yesterday.

 

The Yogi, credited with spreading the Sikh faith in Europe and the Americas,

leaves behind hundreds and thousands of Sikh converts across the continents.

 

The spiritual leader was also recipient of a prestigious Akal Takht title of

Singh Sahiban.

 

He was born on August 28, 1929 at Gujranwala, now in Pakistan. He shifted to the

US at a young age where he earned immense popularity through his yoga skills and

became a top Sikh spiritual leader among the Europeans and Americans.

 

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2004

THE TIMES OF INDIA

 

Yogi Harbhajan dies in US

 

NEW DELHI: Yogi Harbhajan, the 75-year old Sikh missionary in US and preacher of

Yoga, died at Espanola in New Mexico last night of heart failure.

 

" Yogi was suffering from a heart problem. He was bedridden for some time. His

died of heart failure last night at 9.40 pm (local time), " National Commission

for Minorities Chairman Tarlochan Singh told PTI.

 

A master practitioner of both hatha and kundalini yoga, Yogi Bhajan was the

" Supreme Religious and Administrative Authority of the Sikh Religion in the

Western Hemisphere, " he said.

 

He was also given the title of Singh Sahib by Akal Takht, the temporal seat of

the Sikhs in Amritsar, he said.

 

Thousands of American disciples in his Healthy-Happy-Holy Organisation

('3.H.O.') revered the robust, bearded Bhajan as the holiest man of this era.

 

Born in 1929 in Gujrawala town in Pakistan, Yogi was a custom officer in

Amritsar. In 1968 he immigrated to Toronto, later that year moved to Los Angeles

and eventually started his own ashram [spiritual Commune] in a garage. He ran

over 200 religious centres all over Europe and US by the name of Guru Ram Das

Ashrams, said Singh.

 

Although Sikhs are renowned as meat eaters, Bhajan insisted that his followers

be strict vegetarians. While yoga is not part of Sikhism, Bhajan tought the

practice, not its mild form widespread in the US but Tantrism, a strenuous,

mystical variety practiced by men and women in pairs.

 

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2.

TONIGHT IN NYC, MEMORIAL GURDWARA

 

Memorial Gurdwara, 6:30pm

Church of St. Francis Xavier

45 West 16th St.

btwn 5th & 6th Ave.s

 

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please meet at 4pm at KYE is you would like to be a sevadar

Suite 614, at 873 Broadway in Manhattan. That's on the corner of East 18 St.,

just north of Union Square Park.

 

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also at 5pm a group will gather during the time of the cremation to do the 31

minute meditation listed below at Universal Force 7 West 24th street between

Broadway & Sixth Avenue

will start promptly

 

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3.

RECOMENDED MEDITATIONS TO DO AT THIS TIME

 

31 MINUTE MEDITATION TO BE DONE TONIGHT

SATURDAY OCTOBER 9TH AT 5PM EST

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/yb.nsf/p/meditations

 

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TO CHANT AKAL

This meditation, which means undying, allows the soul to pass more easily into

the next realm of existence.

 

Place the right hand 6 inches above the head, palm down, left hand at the heart,

palm down, and chant akal 1 time per breath, at least 7 times.

 

It should be chanted like this:

akaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallll

 

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4.

NEW MOON SUNRISE SADHANA IN MEMORY OF YOGIJI

 

Thursday October 14th, 5am

location NYC, TBD

depending on number that RSVP

please send your name to

info

 

Gathering in the ambrosial hours we will practice Kundalini Yoga & Meditation &

chant until the sun has risen.

 

updates & info: www.HealthyYogga.com

 

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NY TIMES ARTICLE ON YOGIJI FROM 09.28.04

 

September 28, 2004

Top security provider has religious roots

 

By Leslie Wayne

The New York Times

 

ESPANOLA, N.M. - At the end of a dusty road, behind a barbed-wire fence, is the

Sikh Dharma of New Mexico, a religious compound with a golden temple of worship,

a collection of trailers used for business and a quiet group of people wandering

the grounds wearing flowing white robes and turbans.

In the New Age culture here, the Sikh Dharma community, founded in the early

1970s, provides a place where admirers of Yogi Bhajan, a Sikh spiritual leader

and yoga master, can live in harmony and follow their beliefs in vegetarianism,

meditation and community service. Except for Bhajan, who was born in India and

came to the United States in 1969, most members of the Sikh Dharma are

American-born converts who moved here to pursue their lifestyle.

 

The compound is also home to Akal Security, wholly owned by the Sikh Dharma and

one of the nation's fastest-growing security companies, benefiting from a surge

in post-Sept. 11 government contracts. With 12,000 employees and more than $1

billion in federal contracts, Akal specializes in protecting vital and sensitive

government sites, from military installations to federal courts to airports and

water supply systems.

 

Akal is just one of several for-profit and nonprofit entities that are part of a

larger Sikh Dharma financial empire that includes Golden Temple, the natural

foods company in Eugene that makes Yogi herbal teas, Soothing Touch health and

beauty products, Peace natural cereals, dietary supplements and private-label

products for Trader Joe's, a specialty food chain. The food company's annual

revenue exceeds $60 million.

 

At Akal, Sikh Dharma members say they are following an ancient Sikh tradition of

the warrior-saint - as well as showing deftness at the more modern skill of

landing federal contracts.

 

" Our customers look at who we are and filter it all out, " Daya Khalsa, Akal's

co-founder and senior vice president, said in an interview in his office here.

" They couldn't be less interested in our religion and what we look like. "

 

Among Sikhs, " there is no stigma in being financially successful, " Khalsa added.

" Prosperity does not take away from spiritual net worth. You can have both. "

 

Akal certainly bears that out. It is the nation's largest provider of security

officers for federal courthouses, with contracts for 400 buildings in 44 states,

including the federal courthouse in Manhattan.

 

The company just won a major contract to guard Army bases and munitions dumps in

eight states, and also provides guards to the Ronald Reagan Building in

Washington, blocks from the White House. It handles security at the

Baltimore-Washington International Airport, as well as at four new

homeland-security detention centers where foreigners await deportation.

 

In the straight-laced world of the security business, where most people have a

police or military background, Akal stands out. It is the only security company

that anyone in the business, including Akal's own executives, can think of that

is owned by a nonprofit religious organization.

 

" If we are in a room with 50 other contractors, you won't remember the other

guy, but you will remember us, " said Khalsa, who wears a white turban, has a

long beard and refrains from cutting his hair.

 

It has also not hurt that Akal has been a generous campaign contributor to

Democratic and Republican candidates at the federal level, and that Khalsa has

met with President Bush both in the White House and in New Mexico. Local New

Mexico politicians also have benefited from this largess - and responded with

friendship and support.

 

Four former New Mexico governors stopped by Bhajan's recent 75th-birthday party;

Gov. Bill Richardson was last year's keynote speaker at the group's

International Peace Prayer Day.

 

" We play in the political arena like everyone else, " Khalsa said. He and his

wife, Sat Nirmal Kaur Khalsa, who is Akal's chief executive, have given over

$30,000 to both Democratic and Republican federal candidates since 2000.

 

Khalsa, who was once known as Daniel Cohn, was given his name by Bhajan after he

moved here in 1971, soon after graduating from Amherst College. Like other

members of the 300-family Sikh Dharma community, he has adopted the name Khalsa,

which refers to a group of orthodox Sikhs.

 

The Sikh Dharma community here blends New Age values and orthodox Sikhism, a

monotheistic religion that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian

subcontinent in the 15th century.

 

" We are not used to non-Punjabis joining our religion; it is a curious

development, " said Gurinder Singh Mann, professor of Sikh studies at the

University of California at Santa Barbara, who explained that many of these new

converts are more devout than those born into the religion.

 

Under Akal's biggest security contract, worth $854 million, it provides

protection for federal courthouses and judges. While federal courthouse guards

wear U.S. marshals' uniforms in nine districts, their employer is Akal, which

hires mainly former police and military officers, almost none of them Sikhs.

Akal's contract with the guards prohibits them from wearing turbans or having

facial hair, unlike the company's Sikh officials, who are required to do so by

their religion.

 

For all the group's unusual ways, government officials have few complaints about

Akal.

 

" Our people have done checks on them years ago, and we have no issues with

them, " said John Kraus, a contracting officer for the Department of Justice.

" Last I've checked, we've had freedom of religion. "

 

One high-profile contract Akal garnered, beating 20 other companies, was for

$250 million to provide security guards at five Army bases and three weapons

depots. The Army has turned to the private sector to replace soldiers sent to

Iraq.

 

Competition was based on capability, past performance and price, according to an

Army official, who added that Akal's religious ties were not a factor, nor did

Akal benefit as a faith-based group.

 

" We do not discriminate based on race, creed, religion or national origin, " the

official said. " It was never really a factor. "

 

Because of that open approach, Akal has almost exclusively gone after government

contracts.

 

" The federal government has created the fairest acquisition system in the

world, " Khalsa said.

 

Akal and Golden Temple operate under the loose umbrella of the Khalsa

International Industry and Trading Company, which also includes Sun & Son, a

computer software company.

 

The sole shareholder of all these companies is the Sikh Dharma church.

 

Equally important are a number of nonprofit ventures also owned by Sikh Dharma.

The biggest of these is the 3HO Foundation, with the name standing for Healthy,

Happy and Holy Organization. That group is dedicated to the spread of Kundalini

yoga, which is focused on releasing inner energy, and of Bhajan's teachings.

 

" The whole point of all these ventures is not for an individual to get rich, but

to perpetuate the mission of the community, " said Avtar Hari Singh Khalsa, who,

as Arthur Warshaw, was once president of Time-Life Television in Hollywood.

Today he is chief executive of the 3HO Foundation and other nonprofits.

 

No money from Akal, Golden Temple or the other profit-making ventures goes to

the church, which is supported by donations, officials say. Sending money to the

church is barred by Akal's bankers and also could jeopardize the tax-exempt

status of the church.

 

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" If you can't see God in all,

you can't see God at all. "

 

" It's not the life that matters,

it's the courage that you bring to it. "

 

" Don't love me, love my teachings.

Become ten times greater than me. "

 

-- Yogi Bhajan

 

 

~3~3~3~3~3~3~3~3~3~3~3~3~3~3~3

 

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