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Ever since we did some improvements to our Gurdwara a few years ago I have not been broadcasting our local Gurdwara on the internet. I used to do a live audio/video broadcast for many years every Sunday. However as I started to become the family man and more busy with work it was more difficult to cover.

I’ve been meaning to start this back up again, but haven’t gotten around to it yet because I have to figure out a way to economically setup a few permanent cameras that I can show video (or still frames that update periodically).

This morning my wife was asking me when I was going to set this up again because it is getting really hard for her to sit in Gurdwara for a long time being very pregnant. So, this was a little motivation to at least get the audio part going again. This way she can listen to ghe Gurdwara from home when she isn’t feeling well, or needs to go home early to rest.

So, this message is just to let you know that Gurdwara here in Espanola will be broadcast live every Sunday (starting right now). So, if you are up and awake at the time then you can tune in and virtually be a part of our Gurdwara here.

We don’t have “professional ragis” who are full time, so the Kirtan is just played by members of the Sangat who wish to do kirtan. Musicians are both young and old, western and eastern, so you’ll hear a mix of styles.

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Ps. I added a permanent link on the left hand navigator here on my blog which says “Espanola Gurdwara”

Ok… it’s like 1AM and it’s been a long day, so I’ll be somewhat brief. We have been having Khalsa Council meetings all week and this afternoon we had a special ceremony to honor the memory of Yogi Bhajan. The city of Espanola and state of New Mexico have dedicated the highway which passes in front of the home of Yogi Bhajan after him. This is a great honor and recognition for all his selfless service to the world. I don’t know of any other highways in the USA which are named after a Sikh.

The New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and other guests spoke at the dedication event. Many of the New Mexico political figures have been long time friends of Yogi Bhajan (20+ years) and have great respect for him and the things that he accomplished in his lifetime.

One of the things that was cool was that originally the dedication was going to be at a different location outside, but a very unusual thing happened. IT RAINED…AND RAINED…AND RAINED. Normally when it rains you are lucky to get 2 minutes of rain. We haven’t had pretty much any rain for over 6 months and the land has been soo dry. It was as if it rained for this very occasion.

Twice a year we hold “Khalsa Council” meetings which is a leadership group of Sikhs from all over the world that come to Espanola to vision for the future. We had been having these meetings and as a result of the rain the Highway memorial dedication could not be held outside. So, instead… everyone came to the Khalsa Council meetings. So the Governor and all the other New Mexico political figures came to “meet” the Khalsa Council. Cool eh?

During our Khalsa Council Sessions

For the first times in 6+ months we got huge amount of rain!

Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico

Bibiji Inderjit Kaur, the Governor and Siri Sikhdhar Sahiba

Sat Jivan Singh saying a prayer to open the ceremonies.

People in prayer.

Gov. Bill Richardson and Bibiji

Daya Singh addressing everyone.

Gov. Bill Richardson Addressing the Khalsa Council, other political figures and friends of Yogi Bhajan.

Unveiling one of the Signs for the Highway

Bibiji expressing tears of emotion

Some of the signs on the highway

Himmat Singh and Guru Darshan Kaur

Narayan, Sarabjot and Utham being silly.

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