

In his final years in India, he also learned from Baba Virsa Singh at Gobind Sadan Institute. Harbhajan Singh learned yoga therapy from Dhirendra Brahmachari at the Vishwayatan Ashram in New Delhi.

These included Sant Ranjit Singh, Acarya Narinder Dev and the facilities of Sivananda Ashram. In his adult life, Harbhajan Singh's government duties often facilitated his traveling to remote ashrams and distant hermitages to seek out reclusive yogis and swamis. He subsequently studied Kundalini Yoga at a boarding school of Sant Hazara Singh. īy Khalsa's account, his most influential teacher during his formative years was his paternal grandfather. Together, they had three children, Ranbir Singh Bhai, Kulbir Singh and Kamaljit Kaur. He married Inderjit Kaur Uppal in Delhi in 1954.

Eventually, Harbhajan Singh was promoted to a customs inspector at Delhi airport. He served in the Revenue Department, where his duties took him all over India. In 1953, Harbhajan Singh entered the service of the Government of India.

Four years later, he graduated with a master's degree in economics. There, Harbhajan Singh attended Camp College – a hastily put together arrangement for thousands of refugee students – and was an active member of the Sikh Students Federation in Delhi. Khalsa's schooling was interrupted in 1947 by the violent partition of India, when he and his family fled to New Delhi as refugees. Theirs was a well-to-do landlord family, owning most of their village in the foothills of the Himalayas. Singh learned the fundamentals of Sikhism from his paternal grandfather, Sant Bhai Fateh Singh. His father was raised in the Sikh tradition and young Harbhajan was educated in a Catholic school run by nuns. His mother, a Hindu, was named Harkrishan Kaur. Kartar Singh Puri, served the British Raj as a medical doctor. Harbhajan Singh Khalsa was born on Auginto a Sikh family in Kot Harkarn, Gujranwala district, in the province of Punjab (now in Pakistan).
