On Sunday October 6, 2024, from 6:00 am MDT to 6:00 pm MDT, we will be gathering as a community to celebrate the 20th Barsi (death anniversary) of the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan.
This will be a beautiful opportunity to come together to remember with gratitude all of the gifts given to us by our Spiritual Teacher who, together with his beloved wife BibiJi Inderjit Kaur, brought the timeless teachings of the Sikh path to the West.
You may attend the evening program in person at Hacienda de Guru Ram Das, and you can also attend a full 12 hours of chanting to Guru Ram Das online via Zoom.
The 12-hour online event will begin with streaming the chanting at the HGRD morning gurdwara and end with streaming the chanting program at the Siri Singh Sahib’s ranch. In between, members of our Global Sangat will take turns leading 30 minutes of chanting to Guru Ram Das.
We invite you to join Sikh Dharma International, 3HO International and our collective Global Sangat for this special celebration.
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Our Gift to You
In honor of this special occasion marking the 20th Barsi of the Siri Singh Sahib Ji, we offer you a free download of this book.
Akal Dayal is a 224-page tribute to our Spiritual Teacher. It is the story of how as a global sangat, we fulfilled principles instilled in us by Yogi Bhajan when he left his physical body.
The heartbeat of this book is the collection of Hukams from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
The collection of Hukams is from the week before his passing, the day of his passing on October 6, 2004, the cremation day, the 17 days leading to the memorial service, and the 40 days following. These Hukams come from the Siri Singh Sahib’s two homes, the Hari Mandir Sahib (the Golden Temple) in Amritsar, India and Hacienda de Guru Ram Das, in Espanola, New Mexico.
The Hukams from the Golden Temple were first gathered by the students of Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar, together with their drawings, and presented to Siri Sikdar Sahiba Sardarni Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa. The Hukams from Hacienda de Guru Ram Das, with artwork from loving students near and far, are companions to those from the Golden Temple.
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Give a Gift in Honor of Siri Singh Sahib Ji
Gurusimran Kaur from Hacienda de Guru Ram Das in Española, New Mexico shared this story:
One time the Siri Singh Sahib was visiting Española while the ashram was getting ready to celebrate Guru Ram Das’s birthday.
A few Sangat members asked him:“Sir, how can we actually honor Guru Ram Das? Yes, we meditate, pray, serve langar but how can we actually truly honor Guru Ram Das since he lived about 500 years ago.”
The Siri Singh Sahib said:
“If you really want to honor Guru Ram Das, you plant a tree”.
So, the ashram got organized and each person or family chipped in money for one tree. Then we picked places to plant them and prepared the land by digging holes.
On Guru Ram Das’s birthday we planted the trees– each person/family came and planted their tree with our love and gratitude.
It turned out that we planted exactly 108 trees that day. This was not planned, but that is what it turned out to be.
Dhan Dhan Guru Ram Das!
The Siri Singh Sahib loved all of the trees on his ranch property. He was very strict about trees not being removed without his direct permission. If anyone asked to remove a tree, whenever possible, he came up with another solution.
In honor of the Siri Singh Sahib Ji’s love of Guru Ram Das and his love of trees, please consider donating to a tree to be planted on his ranch property at Hacienda de Guru Ram Das. There is a long list of fruit trees and shade trees which the caretakers would like to plant to beautify the property. Feel free to donate any amount. As a reference, each tree costs between $60 and $300.
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**NOTE: mention when you donate that your donation is for trees.
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