When I started taping the Siri Singh Sahib’s classes in Los Angeles almost eleven years ago, I had no idea that what I was doing was anything more than a hobby. One thing led to another and today, not only do I sell lecture tapes, but our company, Golden Temple Recordings, has become the main source tor all types of recorded audio and video tapes relating to the 3HO and Sikh Dharma lifestyles. Being able to supply people with something that is so beneficial and appreciated has been and continues to be a most rewarding experience.
Read: "Spreading the Word(s)…. and Music"Categories: Our Stories
Tags: Beads of Truth, Beads of Truth - 1986-Summer
To fully convey the impressions that are deepest within me of the early years in Europe, I wish I could show moving pictures and video glimpses of expressions and situations: like Tantric in Holland, the Siri Singh Sahib’s eyes as he counselled, welcoming smiles in Hamburg, a Golden Temple Restaurant kitchen scene.
And then I remember the sounds of the Siri Singh Sahib’s voice, the melody of voices translating into languages of the Mediterranean and the North, at the Yoga Festival, the clatter of pots, and the hum of restaurant machines in the Golden Temple Restaurants. The Golden Temple Restaurants were the hub of our 3HO life in Europe in the early days. They were at the heart of our growth as a group and in each of our psyches, our memories of working there live on and warm us even now.
Read: "3HO Europe the ’70’s and ’80’s"Categories: 3HO History
Tags: Beads of Truth, Beads of Truth - 1988-Winter-Bead 21 Vol II
As I stood in line with the ministers of Sikh Dharma, receiving the instructions of Yogiji, as to the nature of our duties, I was pleasantly amused when he told all of us to go touch the feet of the members of the Sangat. But, when I placed my hands upon the feet of the first brother I approached and bowed my head in reverence to the Divine within him, Sat Nam graced me with bliss— complete Wha Guru!
Read: "The Highest Moment"Categories: Our Stories
Tags: Beads of Truth, Beads of Truth - 1973-September
The history of our 3HO family is recorded in our songs, but many of the memories of our nation are tied to our taste buds!
In 1969, the Siri Singh Sahib‘s presence permeated every aspect of our evolving lifestyle and his touch with food and the concept of healthy, conscious, vegetarian eating was a welcome antidote to people raised on too much of everything America had to offer.
Read: "Conscious Cookery"Categories: Our Stories
Tags: Beads of Truth, Beads of Truth - 1989-Summer
If you want to study with me, three things you must do:
1) Never get into a secret mantra or secret initiation. The Mother Kundalini will diversify you, and you will not be happy here, neither will you be happy in heavens. It is a terrible mistake a person can make. Any practitioner of Kundalini must not go into any kind of secret knowledge, it is the first law of this knowledge.
2) Join the practice with reverence and leave it with reverence. Because as all rivers get into the ocean, all knowledge is meant to raise the kundalini. Negating this Mother Divine Power, this creative power of God, sometimes does not have happy results.
3) You must not forget, a practitioner of Kundalini Yoga must not disrespect a woman under any form and shape. If you can carry out these three instructions, the result will be very quick, wonderful and delightful. If you break any law, it is your karma, God bless you.
Read: "Requirements of a Spiritual Teacher"Categories: Yogi Bhajan Lectures
Tags: Beads of Truth, Beads of Truth - 1983-Winter
God is making the destiny of the United States as He wishes. This country was started with the slogan, “In God We Trust.” Start talking and start writing, and also start making up your mind that you don’t believe what is being told and said. You do believe in one thing: WE DON’T WANT A NUCLEAR WAR. Make a contribution. Call all the religious groups and give them a talk. In your office or business, put a sign. “We don’t want nuclear war.” These little funny things may look very little to you, but they are very effective. Simple things, simple methods, and simple gestures can bring a flood of people on your side.
Read: "Stop: Yogi Bhajan and Ram Dass Talk Nuclear War in 1982"Categories: Yogi Bhajan Lectures
Tags: Beads of Truth, Beads of Truth - 1982-Winter
This article was originally published in a 1980 issue of Beads of Truth.
In February of 1977 the Siri Singh Sahib and about a dozen of his staff and aides sat down to review potential sites for a permanent location for the Summer Solstice Sadhana. An exhaustive search had been conducted of all available properties within a hundred mile radius of the Española Ashram and as each property was presented to him, he flatly turned it down.
Read: "Ram Das Puri: Where Angels Dare to Tread"Categories: 3HO History, Our Stories
Tags: Beads of Truth, Beads of Truth - 1980-December
Kundalini Yoga is as powerful today as it was ten years ago or a thousand years ago. If you do it, you vibrate. If you don’t, you don’t. If you chant Sat Nam, you see the Truth. If you don’t you don’t. But Kundalini Yoga and Sat Nam always have been, still are, and will continue to be the base of the 3HO Foundation. Kundalini Yoga awakens us to the Truth, Sat Nam links us to it.
In the collective heart and soul of humanity we are charting a way through the wilderness just as those who have come before us have done for us. And if in the future an individual cries out in his soul for the Truth and a path to walk upon, if there is a Kundalini Yoga teacher on the planet, that individual has a chance to find it.
Read: "Technology for Integrity"Categories: Our Stories
Tags: Beads of Truth - 1979 - Bead 1 and 2 Vol. II
