3HO
( Happy Healthy Holy Organization)

Leader:

Yogi Bhajan (also known as Sikh Dharma)

Alternate Names of the Group:

Sikh Dharma Brotherhood
The Siri Singh Sahib Foundation
Kundalini Yoga

Other Names:

Harbhajan Singh Puri
The Siri Singh Sahib
Bhai Sahib
Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi ji

Description:

Members of 3HO (Happy, Healthy, Holy Organization) certainly stand out with their white turbans and white clothing. They believe themselves to be Sikhs, though by following the teachings of Yogi Bhajan they are breaking far more traditional Sikh teachings than they are adhering to. Most Sikhs avoid any association with this group.

Harbhajan Singh Puri arrived in Canada in 1969 and soon settled in the LA area calling himself Yogi Bhajan. He claimed to have a Masters degree in Economics and he claimed to be a well known Yogi back in India. Yogi Bhajan also taught that he was "The Mahan Tantric", an important mystical title (http://www.yogibhajan.com/mahan.html), that he could see auras and see your future. Perhaps his most outrageous claim, however, was that he was "The Siri Singh Sahib" (http://www.yogibhajan.com/sss.html)the official head religious and administrative leader of all Sikhs in the West!

The audacity of Yogi Bhajan's huge lies and the readiness of USA hippies to believe them makes the Yogi Bhajan/3HO/Sikh Dharma story particularly sad. (http://forums.delphiforums.com/KamallaRose/start)

There have been many cases alleging criminal activities and reportedly several criminal convictions of 3HO individuals within 3HO, complaints of severe sexual violence against Yogi Bhajan, and reportedly many 3HOers leaving the cult have been threatened with violence while trying to escape. There are unsolved murders of 3HOer still being investigated.

Links Critical of the Group:

Dan Singh's web site about Yogi Bhajan * note: as archived by The Internet Archive. Original site is no longer online.

3HO American Sikh / Yogi Bhajan Discussion board

Who is guarding the hen house? (as archived by archive.org)

Web Sites of the Group:

3HO

Satsantokh

Yogibhajan

Kundalini Yoga

Other Resources:

Copies of Court Documents Concerning Actions of S. Premka Kaur Khalsa/Pamela Dyson vs. Yogi Bhajan and 3HO (Note: "Premka" documents are in PDF format; Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view, print)

"Table of Contents"

Affidavit of Pamela Dyson

Affidavit of S. Premka Kaur Khalsa

Complaint of S. Premka Kaur Khalsa vs. Yogi Bhajan and various 3HO-associated entities

Plaintiff Katherine Felt's Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Opposition to Defendant Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yigiji's and Corporate Defendants' Motion to Dismiss (about 2 1/2 megs)

Complaint by Katherine Felt against Yogi Bhajan and Several Associates on Multiple Charges (about 3 1/2 megs)

Statement from former 3HO member

X-3HO-Friends (a public online forum where information about life in 3HO can be easily accessed)