April 17, 1947 – February 22, 2024 by SS Gurujot Kaur Khalsa 2024 (First Quarter) Sada Anand Singh passed away suddenly on Thursday, February 22nd, as he was on his way to teach in Taiwan and then lead a Yatra to the Golden Temple in India. Living and teaching in Japan for more than 30 years, Sada Anand Singh was an ordained Minister of Sikh Dharma and the Director of 3HO Japan and the Ikoma Mountain Yoga and Retreat Center. He will be remembered for his indelible optimism, infectious laugh, big heart, and his ability to make the impossible possible.
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Archives for Memoriam
In Memoriam – SS Sada Anand Singh Khalsa
In Memoriam – MSS Sat Santokh Singh Khalsa
October 18, 1939 – February 21, 2024 by Jiwan Shakti Kaur Khalsa 2024 (First Quarter) “As the rays of light blend into the sun and water merges into water, so does the soul merge into the Divine and becomes whole.” – Siri Guru Granth Sahib After a long fight with bile duct cancer, MSS Sat Santokh Singh Khalsa (San Leandro, California) passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones chanting Gurbani. He was beloved by many as a teacher, mentor, guide, and friend. He leaves behind a beautiful legacy of bringing healing and light into the world. Whether as a husband,
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In Memoriam – SS Ram Dass Singh Khalsa
September 24, 1944 – January 3, 2024 2024 (First Quarter) Ram Dass Singh was born in Boise, Idaho, but spent his childhood in the Pacific Northwest. He studied communication at the University of Washington, then began his journey with Kundalini Yoga and Sikh Dharma in 1970. He found what he loved–sadhana and seva. He spent some time in the Denver and Phoenix ashrams before he set up and led the ashram in Salt Lake City for 16 years. This is where his two loving daughters, Nam Kirn Kaur and Lakshmi Narayan Kaur, were born and where he met and later
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In Memoriam – MSS Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa
June 19, 1929 – November 8, 2023 by SS Dr. Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa 2023 (Fourth Quarter) The day before Shakti Parwha Kaur left her body, a book arrived for me in the mail. From a Far and Lovely Country is the latest in the Number One Ladies Detective Agency series, written by Alexander McCall Smith. When the first book in the series was published in 1998, Shakti Parwha Kaur and I became book buddies. We both enjoyed the humorous wisdom stories of the lead character, the strong and gentle Mma Precious Ramotswe. Shakti Parwha Kaur and I met on
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In Memoriam – SS Harbhajan Singh Khalsa
September 13, 1950 – November 23, 2022 by Hearts and Hands 2023 (Second Quarter) SS Harbhajan Singh Khalsa, formerly of Taos and a longtime member of our sangat at Hacienda de Guru Ram Das in Espanola, passed away on November 23, 2022. He was living in Argentina with his wife, Ramesh Deep Kaur at the time of his passing. He will be remembered for his longtime healing practice and his ability to bring laughter and joy wherever he went.
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In Memoriam – SS Gian Kaur Khalsa
1949 – 2023 by Guru Mander Kaur Khalsa 2023 (Second Quarter) SS Gian Kaur Khalsa, woman, teacher, mother, grandmother and friend. She was a Kundalini Yoga Lead Trainer and a first-generation student trained by Yogi Bhajan. Gian Kaur discovered Kundalini Yoga in Amsterdam in 1973. She and her family came to the US in 1976 to meet Yogi Bhajan for the first time; he assigned her to move to Mexico in order to help Baba Ji run the ashram in Mexico City. That same year, she helped organize the first White Tantric Yoga (WTY) course ever held in Mexico. Later
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In Memoriam – SS Bir Singh Khalsa
April 18, 1946 – August 25, 2022 A Life Celebrated SS Bir Singh Khalsa was born April 18, 1946, in Chicago, IL, and died August 25, 2022, in Albuquerque, NM. He graduated from Brother Rice College in Davenport, Iowa. He taught 4th grade in Chicago for a few years after graduation. He discovered Kundalini Yoga in 1972 in Houston, TX, where he worked in the ashram restaurant business. From Houston he moved to Phoenix, AZ to study Kundalini Yoga with the teacher there and met and married his wife Bir Kaur in 1973. He and his wife moved to Kings
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In Memoriam – SS Jai Singh Khalsa
June 4, 1954 – August 15, 2022 by SS Gurujot Kaur Khalsa, Leesburg VA 2022 (Third Quarter) Jai Singh was a dear brother and friend, a true Sibling of Destiny. I had the wonderful privilege of working together with Jai Singh over the past 25 years. We both shared a deep love and commitment to our Dharmic path and community, and so we often found ourselves serving together. This is how I got to experience his deep spiritual devotion, his love of seva and his willingness to share his skills and talents, his brilliant mind and his sharp wit, and
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In Memoriam – SS Guru Prem Kaur Khalsa
March 6, 1951 – February 7, 2022 by SS Siri Ved Kaur Khalsa, Coarsegold CA 2022 (Second Quarter) SS Guru Prem Kaur Khalsa was born in Chicago, IL on March 6, 1951, as Nancy Mary Ule. She grew up in Southern California, where she graduated from Rolling Hills High School in 1969 and then attended UCLA. From the time she was very small she was not quite of this world, being innately attuned to that of the spirit. She seemed to cope with childhood traumas by finding solace in her inner world. Guru Prem was uniquely beautiful, quite slender, nearly
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In Memoriam – SS Sat Purkha Singh Khalsa
October 28, 1950 – January 12, 2022 by SS Krishna Singh Khalsa, Espanola NM SS Sat Purkha Singh Khalsa (along with Guru Singh, the Siri Singh Sahib, myself, and several others) were the founders of Sunshine Brass Beds in Los Angeles in 1972. It was the first multi-million dollar 3HO business, where during our first year of operations everyone earned an average of 13 cents an hour! He and Baba Singh were outstanding punsters, providing humor while the 10-hour days wore on. Sunshine Brass Beds provided the seed capital for starting a waterbed manufacturing plant in Espanola in 1975. Sat
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