Therefore, somehow, it didn’t seem strange to us that he would lock himself into a bedroom each night with one of his many "secretaries". As for sex, it was part of the mythology that swirled around him that Yogi needed very little sleep. He was always telling us that he was a crook and not to be trusted, but in light of all the fantastic yoga sets and mind blowing meditations he was teaching us, we just didn’t believe him. This was, in fact, how he concealed all his unrighteous activities. Yogi kept his affairs secret from the cult-at-large by hiding them right out in the open, under our noses. Now that takes some pretty strong magic indeed! Yogi greatest challenge, therefore, was not only to seduce supposedly spiritually committed women into his bed (not all that difficult perhaps), but to keep them quiet about it for over twenty years. No other misconduct that Yogi pursued was anywhere near as threatening to position and lifestyle as his sexual activities. Had Yogi harem ever come fully to light over the years, the cult would have instantly blown up and destroyed itself. When affairs did happen among us the whole cult community was deeply shocked and strongly titillated. Extra-marital sex and pre-marital sex were taboo within our cult. Yogi students were encouraged to marry and explore this energy within the boundaries of monogamous relationships. Within the Tantric tradition of India and Tibet, it is recognized that sexual energy, is in fact, the same substance as spiritual energy.
Yogi was a master of Tantric Yoga, which is another way to say that he was a master of sex. Then she left and eventually wrote this devastating essay: This woman (Kamlapadi Kaur Khalsa) was a member of Yogi Bhajan’s group for 20 years. Then there were cake and cookies even though it was all vegetarian, I abstained because my standards of kashrut are just that high, bitch.
Then after class, a bunch of people went to hug the Guru and the Guru takes care to only hug wives when he hugs them together with their husbands, after all he’s a Guru and very holy, and then the Guru danced with us and he had such a happy pure smile on his face and he’s just so full of love that even a manly man such as myself was not unmoved. Only these women should care about his birthday. This is a little creepy because he’s just a bloke having a birthday and who cares about a bloke having a birthday except his mommy and his sisters and the woman he’s doing. So the Guru walked in just after 7pm and the room went wild. A manly man only celebrates the birthday of the woman he’s sleeping with.īut this is LA and maybe the mores are different.
After all, a manly man does not celebrate another man’s birthday.
There were streamers and balloons to celebrate the Guru’s birthday.īefore the Guru entered the room, a teacher led us in a warm-up meditation and had us practice a song to sing when the Guru walked in. The room was packed even before class was to begin. Wait, ten days ago I felt uncomfortable with all the celebrations for Guru Singh‘s 64th birthday. ( Yogi Bhajan and Shlomo Carlebach taught together.) I feel like I joined a cult and did not even known it. This afternoon, however, I read some devastating reports on Kundilini Yoga. I read the Wikipedia entry on Yogi Bhajan and at the time it only contained neutral or positive descriptions of his life. For the past three months, I have been 100% enthusiastic about Kundilini Yoga.ĭon’t think my emotions had no foundation in fact.