The company was transferred to Kartar Singh Khalsa for $100, sparking lawsuits over improper disposition of the assets. Golden Temple of Oregon, a natural foods company that built the Peace Cereal and Yogi Tea brands, was owned by a corporate entity controlled by Yogi Bhajan, and was estimated to be worth around $100,000,000 at the time of his death. Business ventures Īccording to anthropology professor and Sikh diaspora researcher Nicola Mooney, 3HO Sikhs have combined "ethic and capitalism" to their spiritual pursuits, with Sikh Dharma International and its associated corporate entities and directors creating and controlling the Yogi Tea and Akal Security brands with a worldwide presence. SS SatSundri Kaur Khalsa also provides oversight of the associated Sikh businesses of Yogi Tea and Akal Security. As of January 2017 the current Board of Directors comprises Siri Sikdar Sahiba, Sardarni Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa, MA Bhai Sahiba, Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Khalsa, PhD MSS Guru Raj Kaur Khalsa SS Guru Darbar Singh Khalsa Sada Sat Simran Singh Khalsa SS SatSundri Kaur Khalsa SS Siri Karm Singh Khalsa and Board chairman MSS Kirtan-Singh Khalsa. The Khalsa Council appoints a Board of Directors for Sikh Dharma International. The Khalsa Council does not recognize Yogi Bhajan's family as members of the organization or its governing group. The Council is composed of Golden Temple CEO Kartar Singh Khalsa his domestic partner, Peraim Kaur Khalsa, who was also a member of Yogi Bhajan's personal staff Sikh Dharma's longtime comptroller, Sopurkh Kaur Khalsa and the organization's strategic and legal planner, Siri Karm Kaur Khalsa, a New Mexico resident. Īt present, Sikh Dharma International is governed by the Khalsa Council appointed by the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan. Judge Mosman concluded that there was significant evidence that the 3HO corporate entities were religious in character and thus that the dispute could not be adjudicated in civil court. District Court for the District of Oregon dismissed the case. However, in April 2018, Chief Judge Michael Mosman of the U.S. In January 2017, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the lawsuit was not on its face an ecclesiastical dispute. Yogi Bhajan's wife, Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Puri, alleged that she had been appointed to the board of Unto Infinity, and that she and their three children were appointed to the Siri Singh Sahib of Sikh Dharma board of directors (and thus in a position to exert significant control over all of the Sikh Dharma legal entities) but that following Yogi Bhajan's death the other board members of those entities improperly prevented them from taking part in governance. Following the Yogi's death in 2004, a dispute ensued over the governance of those entities and assets. Yogi Bhajan formed Sikh Dharma International as a California nonprofit religious corporation "organized to advance the religion of Sikh Dharma and as an association of religious organizations teaching principles of Sikh Dharma, including by ordination of ministers of divinity and operation of places of worship." During Yogi Bhajan's lifetime, Sikh Dharma International, along with related legal entities Siri Singh Sahib Corporation and Unto Infinity LLC, were held and controlled by Siri Singh Sahib of Sikh Dharma, a California "corporation sole" of which Yogi Bhajan was the only shareholder. ģHO is not representative of the actual Sikh religion or its teachings, and is often denounced by orthodox Sikhs for having cultish and capitalistic characteristics that are not representative of the original faith. In 1977, Gurucharan Singh Tohra, former President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), stated that Harbhajan Singh was not the leader of Sikhism in the Western World as he claimed, and denied Singh's claim that the SGPC had given him the title of Siri Singh Sahib. Both men and women wear turbans and often wear white clothes. 3HO also believes openness to Yoga and spiritual ideas as a source of strength. The 3HO movement is known for including some practices found in certain traditions of Hinduism, such as vegetarianism, meditation and Yoga, particularly Kundalini yoga.
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