Comments on: Serving Yogiji at the Phyllis House http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/ On the Spiritual Path... Memoirs and Writings Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:55:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: amandeep http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-3705 amandeep Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:01:19 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-3705 great great great... great great great…

]]> By: Guru Fatha Singh http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-46 Guru Fatha Singh Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:57:15 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-46 Sat Nam. Thanks for this beautiful sight and the awesome stories! Back in 1985 at Guru Ram Das Ashram in Toronto, our dear Yogi Bhajan asked me to write his story. He gave me the title - but nothing else - "Messenger from the Guru's House". Of course there is no way all the accounts of all the lives he touched could fit in that one story, so I am really happy you are doing this site. If anyone wants the Toronto chapters from Messenger, I plan to start sending them out via internet (at no charge) in April. The early life section started last April and will finish in March - one chapter a month. If interested, please contact me at: gurufathasingh@gmail.com. Thanks. Blessings abound... Sat Nam. Thanks for this beautiful sight and the awesome stories!

Back in 1985 at Guru Ram Das Ashram in Toronto, our dear Yogi Bhajan asked me to write his story. He gave me the title - but nothing else - “Messenger from the Guru’s House”.

Of course there is no way all the accounts of all the lives he touched could fit in that one story, so I am really happy you are doing this site.

If anyone wants the Toronto chapters from Messenger, I plan to start sending them out via internet (at no charge) in April. The early life section started last April and will finish in March - one chapter a month.

If interested, please contact me at: gurufathasingh@gmail.com. Thanks. Blessings abound…

]]> By: Siri Dharma Kaur http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-28 Siri Dharma Kaur Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:14:47 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-28 Sat Nam! Thank you soooo much for this beautiful site! And since I started my journey in the Dharma in Toronto I will venture a little bit of what I know. First, no, Yogiji would never have used the word 'miserable'! But Toronto winters can be miserable and he was living in the basement of a relative's house. One problem was that they wouldn't serve him vegetarian food and there was so much cooking with meat he hardly had anything he could he eat. And I remember him mentioning the smell of the meat cooking from his basement room was 'horrible' (In fact he simply crinkled up his nose when he mentioned it.) He had received an invitation to teach by a professor at the University of Toronto but the professor died either before or right around the time he arrived and whatever situation he had offered Yogiji evaporated. So between the cold, wet winter, the situation with relatives, and the death of this man, he made the wise choice to go to sunny southern California! Anybody remember anything to add to this? Much Love in the Divine, Siri Dharma Kaur Sat Nam! Thank you soooo much for this beautiful site! And since I started my journey in the Dharma in Toronto I will venture a little bit of what I know.

First, no, Yogiji would never have used the word ‘miserable’! But Toronto winters can be miserable and he was living in the basement of a relative’s house. One problem was that they wouldn’t serve him vegetarian food and there was so much cooking with meat he hardly had anything he could he eat. And I remember him mentioning the smell of the meat cooking from his basement room was ‘horrible’ (In fact he simply crinkled up his nose when he mentioned it.)

He had received an invitation to teach by a professor at the University of Toronto but the professor died either before or right around the time he arrived and whatever situation he had offered Yogiji evaporated. So between the cold, wet winter, the situation with relatives, and the death of this man, he made the wise choice to go to sunny southern California!

Anybody remember anything to add to this?

Much Love in the Divine, Siri Dharma Kaur

]]> By: Siri Ved Kaur http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-15 Siri Ved Kaur Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:12:39 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-15 Thanks for your question. I never once heard Yogiji describe his short stay in Canada as “miserable,” but that’s probably a word many of us would have used if in the same spot as he found himself! When he arrived in Canada in 1968 the airlines had lost his luggage. He had $35 cash and the clothes on his back. He never spent the $35, and for all the years since then he kept that $35 in a conch shell on his altar, as a reminder to him how Guru always comes through. He trusted Guru to carry him through, and sure enough, he always had a place to stay, food to eat, and if he needed to go somewhere, someone to take him there. Others certainly know the details to the story of his experience in Canada better than I do, and I invite them to write about this. I believe also this is told in the Commemorative Volume that was published in 1979. Thanks for your question. I never once heard Yogiji describe his short stay in Canada as “miserable,” but that’s probably a word many of us would have used if in the same spot as he found himself! When he arrived in Canada in 1968 the airlines had lost his luggage. He had $35 cash and the clothes on his back. He never spent the $35, and for all the years since then he kept that $35 in a conch shell on his altar, as a reminder to him how Guru always comes through. He trusted Guru to carry him through, and sure enough, he always had a place to stay, food to eat, and if he needed to go somewhere, someone to take him there. Others certainly know the details to the story of his experience in Canada better than I do, and I invite them to write about this. I believe also this is told in the Commemorative Volume that was published in 1979.

]]> By: Satnam Singh http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-13 Satnam Singh Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:12:08 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-13 Sat Nam, I have heard that Yogi Bhajan did not have a good time in Canada when he first came to the west. Why is that? Could someone share what made Canada miserable? thanks Sat Nam,
I have heard that Yogi Bhajan did not have a good time in Canada when he first came to the west. Why is that? Could someone share what made Canada miserable?
thanks

]]> By: Siri Pritam Kaur http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-12 Siri Pritam Kaur Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:39:08 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-12 Siri Ved Kaur - thanks for sharing your wonderful stories... who would have thought we are part of such a history.. we thought it/he would be with us forever. Love, Siri Pritam Siri Ved Kaur -
thanks for sharing your wonderful stories… who would have thought we are part of such a history.. we thought it/he would be with us forever. Love, Siri Pritam

]]> By: Guruka Singh http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-11 Guruka Singh Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:33:36 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/01/22/serving-yogiji-at-the-phyllis-house/#comment-11 Wow! That was so beautiful. Straight from the heart. I love reading your remembrances. This is the true history that must be written first hand, not by hearsay. A thousand blessings to you for this. All love, .....G Wow! That was so beautiful. Straight from the heart. I love reading your remembrances. This is the true history that must be written first hand, not by hearsay. A thousand blessings to you for this.

All love, …..G

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