Recent Articles (Page 10)
First 3HO Summer Solstice Sadhana
A firsthand account of the early days of 3HO, the Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization, according to Guru Singh Khalsa, as shared on harisingh.com and 3HO.org. It is the brightest fire of the year, June 21; the longest day; the shortest night; a time spiritual communities have celebrated for thousands of years. This is the Summer Solstice Sadhana, and in June of 1969 3HO began its now decades old tradition of gathering from all over the world for celebrating with Kundalini Yoga, meditation, and White Tantra Yoga. The full story of our tradition actually begins the summer before. It was June…
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Yogi Bhajan Honored for Mission of Peace
Excerpted from a Middlesex News article from Sunday, November 19, 1995: Friday, November 17, 1995 – Yogi Bhajan was honored as the 52nd recipient of the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award. He said he merely teaches others to raise their own spirit because “a man without peace is not a man complete”. “When I first came to the US in 1969 for a short visit, I saw all the young people getting high on drugs. It was painful to see, so I decided to stay and take the challenge”, Yogi Bhajan said. “Peace is difficult to understand. It is…
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1986 – Year of Peace
This article was originally published in the 1987, Spring issue of the Beads of Truth (Bead 18, Vol. II), a 3HO Magazine. As the year, 1986 draws to a close, we find ourselves witnessing violence and destruction all about us, and living with the knowledge that weapons exist that can completely destroy this planet and make it uninhabitable for centuries. We recognize that it is customary in the cosmic scheme of things for the transition from one great Age to another to bring chaos and upheaval, but we also understand that our power, through prayer, to transmute and channel this…
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Building a Drug-Free Nation
This passage, written by Gurubanda Singh Khalsa from Pomona, California, was shared in the “Drug Program” section of the book, The Man Called the Siri Singh Sahib, published in 1979: When Yogi Bhajan came to America in 1968, he found his most avid audience among the disaffected youth of the time – the so-called ‘hippies’ who had abandoned their homes, their schools, and their jobs, who had rejected the traditional mores of their culture, and who sought new meaning in life through self-exploration, often times in drugs. Yogijii understood their quest for inner knowledge, and he also understood the debilitating consequences…
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