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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Archives for Memoriam
In Memoriam – SS Bir Singh Khalsa
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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In Memoriam – SS Siri Ram Kaur Khalsa (aka Noda Downer)
May 12, 1948 – December 1, 2021 Sardarni Sahiba Siri Ram Kaur Khalsa was a teacher, a mother, and a healer. She was a trained Montessori teacher and had her own school in Los Angeles, combining yogic teachings with her Montessori training. She also served for a time as a staff member at Miri Piri Academy and as Assistant Secretary of Religion under Dr. Sat Kaur. Numerous children were placed in her care by the Siri Singh Sahib for periods of time and she mentored new mothers in the 3HO/Sikh Dharma community and beyond. She also served as a member
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In Memoriam – SS Guru Sandesh Singh Khalsa
10/21/1949 – 8/11/2021 by SS Haridass Singh Khalsa, Oak Grove, OR 2021 Fourth Quarter Dr. Guru Sandesh Singh Khalsa died unexpectedly on August 11, 2021, at his home in Lake Oswego, OR. He was 71. He was a devoted Sikh and took his Sikh Dharma Minister vows in 1975. Dr. Khalsa, known affectionately as “Dr. K.,” was a respected naturopathic physician and a revered, beloved member of the naturopathic medical profession. He served for decades in many important and trusted roles, including teacher, mentor, college president and dean, accreditor, administrator, and visionary. He touched the entire naturopathic medicine community in
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In Memoriam – SS Avtar Hari Singh Khalsa
September 10, 1945 – July 15, 2021 by MSS Daya Singh Khalsa, Espanola NM 2021 (Third Quarter) Many of us 3HOers had known each other for a decade or more before we met Avtar Hari Singh. He’d already grown a business and built a career and bought a luxury apartment and told thousands of corny and a few good jokes before his spiritual quest joined with ours in Los Angeles in 1986. Kundalini yoga brought him to us, and the Siri Singh Sahib grabbed his heart and his spirit and landed him in the Guru’s grace. Avtar Hari dove right
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In Memoriam – Sant SS Guru Dev Singh Khalsa
Dec 10, 1948 – April 5, 2021 A Sikh and student of Yogi Bhajan, Sant Singh Sahib Guru Dev Singh was born in Puebla, Mexico in 1948. He felt the call to study the indigenous traditions of his country, which had started to spread and become popular among youth in the 1960s and ’70s. Guru Dev Singh began practicing Kundalini Yoga in 1971. In 1976, he met Yogi Bhajan; two years later he began to study the healing practice of Sat Nam Rasayan®, under Yogiji’s guidance. In 1981 Guru Dev Singh embraced the Sikh religion and was ordained as a
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In Memoriam – Rami Katz (Ram Das Kaur Khalsa)
July 20, 1947 – September 11, 2020 Sardarni Sahiba Ram Das Kaur (nee Lois Katz/aka Rami Katz) served as the Secretary of Religion for Sikh Dharma International through the 1970s and 1980s. She inspired a generation of Khalsa men and women in the West in her embracing of the Sikh faith and her spreading of the Guru’s teachings. She was a mother of two children and a grandmother of three. She traveled the world as an ambassador of the Sikh religion, teaching philosophy, yoga, Kirtan, and the Gurmukhi language. by SS Siri Ved Kaur Khalsa, Bakersfield CA Winter 2020
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In Memoriam – SS Sada Simran Singh Khalsa
March 25, 1952 – October 1, 2020 by SS Pritpal Singh Khalsa, Espanola NM Winter 2020 I first met Sada Simran Singh as we both tried to enjoy our bowls of un-spiced boiled wheatberries (a weekly routine in the Pomona ashram) for breakfast on my first day in Pomona, California. His outgoing charm was on full display, even though we both were struggling to find an understanding of how we ended up in Pomona, eating wheatberries together that day—but we did find friendship. Born and raised in Renton, Washington, Sada Simran Singh began his journey on the path as a Kundalini
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