Comments on: Summer Solstice 1973 - Photos

By: Peter Alexander

Peter Alexander — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:09:13 +0000

Thanks, Siri Ved Kaur:
This was a surprise and a really fun journey. I echo Ganga’s sentiments, and Zoe’s about how innocent and purposeful we were back then. It was especially fun to remember the rock and roll outrage of “Working at the Golden Temple” and the total uproar we caused (mainly Ganga, Niranjan, and Hari Har Kaur with their go-go dancing). Back iin those days everyone was trying so hard to be holy that we thought it would be a good idea to shake things up a little.

–Sat Peter (aka Peter Alexander)

By: Siri Ved Kaur

Siri Ved Kaur — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:16:40 +0000

Sikhs pray everywhere. The Gurdwara is the name of the Sikh temple, a place where the Siri Guru Granth Sahib presides. See http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Sri_Guru_Granth_Sahib for a thorough description of this. An ashram is a place of community and spiritual learning. Our communities were and are exactly that. In Los Angeles we had the very first Guru Ram Das Ashram (many more followed around the world). Guru Ram Das, the 4th Sikh Guru, held the throne of Raj Jog, the King of Yoga, and thus the name Guru Ram Das Ashram. It is the center of our community here in L.A. and also is our Gurdwara. But like I said, Sikhs pray everywhere.
blessings
sv

By: satty

satty — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:35:15 +0000

im a bit confused…

do sikhs prey in an ashram (whats that) or a gurdwara?

By: Siri Ved Kaur

Siri Ved Kaur — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:38:47 +0000

Please if any readers have word of Guru Gun Kaur, contact me and I will pass this on to her son. SVK

By: Sat Gur Prasad Singh Khalsa

Sat Gur Prasad Singh Khalsa — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:27:23 +0000

Guru Gun Kaur is my mother. I randomly wrote her name in my search and came up with your web site. I remember the solstice site from when I was a child as well as the Ashram and Yogi Bhajan. He gave me my name. Anyway, its been fifteen years since I’ve known from my mother. I doubt very much that you have any knowledge of her whereabouts, but if you have any information that could help me find her I would appreciate it. If you need any proof that my words are true I have fotos and letters from years back that can be provided. Thank you…

By: Sada Sat Simran Kaur

Sada Sat Simran Kaur — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:38:14 +0000

I loved looking through these photos—the word that comes to mind is ‘innocence’! I didn’t come to 3-HO until 1977 via Ahimsa in Washington, D.C. Those were the days my friends! When I look back on my life, some of my happiest/most content days was time spent with my 3-HO family……and I love you all. I live in NYC now and keep in touch with some family members at the Herndon community. I love you all. Keep Up! Sada Sat Simran Kaur aka Zoe Artemis

By: sutprem

sutprem — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:55:18 +0000

Does anyone remember the exact location of the Pecos Solstice Site?? THere were cabins then and a rec center and a phone. I went back there in the 1980’s and all that was left was a concrete slab and the phone. THe whole property was sold to the Forest Service. I’d like to go back and visit the site but can’t remember the location.

By: Santokh Singh, Portland

Santokh Singh, Portland — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:39:13 +0000

I am honored to be the first post after such an esteemed seminal high woman as Ghanga Bhajan Kaur. 1973, I was there. As director of the Portland, Oregon ashram and somewhat musically inclined our group competed in the nightly competition and justifiably lost. We did our best but were not the best.

My memories: 1) It was very cold at night. I was on “Security” detail from midnight to 4 AM. Damn neart froze. 2) This was the last solstice that was totally taken on by the Espanola community. They worked for months before, and after, to get it done.

I’d have to take a month to write it all down. Suffice it to say, it was a seminal time in the Dharma. To have been part of it is to have been blessed. I am thankful to have been there.

By: Ganga

Ganga — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:00:55 +0000

Wahe Guru, thank you! I love these photos and the joyous memories they evoke. I’ve been wishing we had some such site to connect through and share stories and memories. Maybe I’m just late on the loop as this is the first I’ve been forwarded, but I’m in now and dancing in the light. I dream about 3HO and my dearest soul connections several times a week and have a storehouse of memories to share. I remember in the early days one of my favorite pastimes aside from chanting to Guru Ram Das was trading stories of “How I came to the Ashram” as there were always remarkable tales which indicated the Great Hand at work in our lives.
But this is about above photos. The thing I remember most about these is the evening of “ashram entertainment night.” We were Ahima Ashram with Nirinjan, Hari Har and myself in the “lead” singing positions. We started out with turbans, singing something appropriately devotional then about one third of the way through burst into a rollicking version of “Working at the Golden Temple”,( in reference to our restaurant), whipped our heads so as to send our turbans flying and started go-go dancing and flipping our pony tails around. As you might recall, Ahimsa Ashram was sort of the geographic base of the Khalsa String Band and it never took much to get Sat Peter into Rock ‘n Roll. I thought it was funny, but boy did I get in a lot of trouble. I remember lectures from Shakti and even Gurushabd Singh. I often got lectured for going just a little too far. Oh well, what to do? Those were the days of “far out” and we didn’t have one gray hair among us. Imagine!
Sat Nam and huge smiles,
Ganga

By: Dya Englert

Dya Englert — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:59:37 +0000

Oh Siri Ved. Thank you so much for posting these wonderful pictures. I laughed out loud sharing in the fun and joy that you all had. Wahe Guru.
Dya in Paris