With this fourth and final issue of our 2021 newsletter, we begin to move from honoring our past. Throughout this year, we explored the past 50 years of service as Sikh Dharma Ministers (from 1971 through 2021) in our first three quarterly newsletters. In this fourth issue, we present essays written as part of the New Minister Candidate process in answer to the question: “What does it mean to be a Sikh Dharma Minister?” We share these essays with permission from the authors, who are some of the individuals ordained as Sikh Dharma Ministers within the past five years. Their
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#82 – 2021 Newsletter (Fourth Quarter)
The Awakening of 1984
by SS Shanti Kaur Khalsa, Espanola NM 2021 (Second Quarter) As I sit in my post-pandemic awareness and think about the decade of the 1980s, it feels like a million miles away…and just like yesterday. For me, and for many in the Sikh Dharma Ministry, the 1980s was a coming of age and an awakening to the harsh realities of sacrifice. In March of 1984, I accompanied the students on their way to Guru Nanak’s Fifth Centenary School in Mussoorie, India. It was my second trip to India, and I felt the emotional pull of the Guru’s land. After safely
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#80 – 2021 Newsletter (Second Quarter)
The year 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Sikh Dharma International Ministry. As we contemplate the future, we also choose to review our past. In this issue, we explore the tremendous changes that occurred during the 1980s and ’90s, as our 3HO/Sikh Dharma communities grew and evolved. We asked Sikh Dharma Ministers to share their personal stories in order to reflect the ways in which we developed and matured within our ashrams and communities, businesses, and our personal lives. During the 1980s and ‘90s we individually and collectively took on larger roles in our Dharmic organization,
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The Diamond of Wahe Guru
by SS Krishna Singh Khalsa, Espanola NM 2021 (First Quarter) There was a time when Greed Capitalism was stood upside down, on its head, in a very practical way during the dark, socially-conflicted times of the late 1960s and 1970s. This was when Yogi Bhajan and a group of dedicated men and women started a bootstrap business called Sunshine Brass Beds in Los Angeles. Just as Kabir spoke of the inevitability of “many hardships” on a spiritual path, we all had experienced many times of hardship trapped within a very unfriendly and indifferent world system. And yet we were also
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Celebrating 50 Years of Ministry
by MSS Krishna Kaur Khalsa, Los Angeles CA 2021 (First Quarter) My first experience with Sikh Dharma came in February 1971. I traveled with the Siri Singh Sahib on his very first return trip to India, after he had been living in the United States for two years. The overwhelm of the culture that many in our group experienced on that yatra actually felt good to me. Being in northern India [Punjab] was like being back in Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria, West Africa, where I had spent a year on a personal quest to discover how I was supposed to
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A Humble Journey
by SS Mata Mandir Singh Khalsa, MT 2021 (First Quarter) “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”—Lao Tzu My spiritual journey began in Maine’s woods, where I grew up. I was the son of a farmer who taught me how to grow things and gave me a perspective on how other species—the trees, moss, insects, and the woods’ wild plants and animals—experience life on this planet earth. On the other hand, my mother encouraged me to study piano and later guitar. I have much gratitude for a childhood rich in learning and experience. Later as a hippy,
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Pioneers of Sikh Dharma/3HO
by SS Sarb Jit Kaur Khalsa, Ram Das Puri NM 2021 (First Quarter) Editor’s Note: When I invited Sarb Jit Kaur, one of the earliest pioneers in our Dharma, to tell her story, she initially declined, due to her responsibilities as the Aquarian Trainer Academy Administrator. Nevertheless, I cajoled her into being interviewed on Skype. She wondered what on earth she could talk about, but once she got started, there was no stopping her! This is the abbreviated version of her story. Stay tuned: She has resolved to write her memoirs once she has the leisure time that retirement will provide!—SS
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Anthems of Awakening
by MSS Guruka Singh Khalsa, Espanola NM 2021 (First Quarter) Reprinted with permission of the author from Our True Tales website. I guess you could classify me as an “old timer” in 3HO. I first began to discover who I really was in the 1960s. Like most of my generation in the West, I grew up singing the anthems of our time—the anthems of a new awakening consciousness. We were “Uncle John’s Band” (a reference to the old Grateful Dead song on “American Beauty”). Everyone knew the words and everyone knew the tune. We all joined the dance together. We
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