Lies and Deceit
in the name of 'Sat Nam'.
'Sat' means truth, 'Nam' stands for identity. 'Sat Nam' is used as a greating by 3HO people.
Dr. Ron Alexander and his colleague
wanted to study Yogi Bhajan's meditative abilities.
Yogi Bhajan first agreed,
but then refused to be measured.
After attending a number of YB's lectures,
the young scientists concluded that
95% of the teachings were junk.
They saw how stories beyond believability were accepted by devotees.
Read more about Dr Ron's research
Siri Nirongkar about
the junk food that killed YB.
While Yogi Bhajan was preaching a healthy diet, he was not so strict on food for himself.
One day he invited students to 'come at him',
Kirtan Kaur accepted the challenge and
confronted Yogi Bhajan with his overweight.
In 2013 historian Philip Deslippe,
wrote
'From Maharaj to Mahan Tantric'
about Yogi Bhajan's lies
about his past, his teachers and
the origin of his version of Kundalini Yoga.
GuruNam Atwal
who was born and raised in 3HO.
She experienced the discrepancy between
what the adults said and what they did.
She explains how she learned
to deny her own truth.
So much happened right in the open ...
There is a lot that people willfully ignored,
says Mani Niall.
One day Yogi Bhajan asked them to write down the 10 things to appear more spiritual.
In 1986,
Tej Steiner, head of the Toronto ashram, discovered that Yogi Bhajan
sexually abused his secretaries
and
witnessed the arrest
of GuruJot Singh on drug trafficking charges.
He called upon his peers to take a stand and question their spiritual leader.
Tej was shunned, slandered and isolated. Yogi Bhajan threatened him.
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