I graduated from Tej Khalsa's eight-month Deep Dive immersion course and undertook five teacher trainings through the RAMA Institute. I studied privately with Harmanjot Kaur, where I learned the discipline of documenting the teachings — how to receive them accurately, transmit them faithfully, and hold them in form without flattening them. I attend regular one-on-one mentee sessions with Yogi Amandeep Ji. The transmission gave me what to teach. The transmission keeps me accountable to what I teach. That is what makes the lineage alive.
A study · the lineage
The throne of transmission.
Janak · Krishna · Baba Sri Chand · Guru Ram Das · the Siri Singh Sahib Yogiji · Yogi Amandeep Ji.
My place in the line
A devotee. A student. A representative.
I am a devotee of Yogi Amandeep Ji and a student of Tej Khalsa. The lineage I represent here is not theoretical — it is the line I have actually walked, with named teachers who remain accountable for what I teach.
The throne of transmission
The lineage is not static. It is alive.
A common critique of Kundalini Yoga is that it is not historical — that it cannot be traced through a continuous textual record the way Western scholarship demands. The critique misreads what kind of lineage this is. Yoga, Tantra, and the nondual paths come above all through transmission. The lineage is alive because the teaching passes from a living master into a living student, not because it is fixed on a page.
This does not mean the practice is invented. It means transmission is its nature. There has always been a master, and the student grows from that master's transmission and teaches from it. Yogi Amandeep Ji recognizes King Janak as the progenitor and first transmitter of Raj Yog — the royal yoga whose throne the Siri Singh Sahib Yogiji also taught as the inheritance of Kundalini Yoga itself.
"Raaj Yog is that state in which you are a king of earth and heaven, both, and that is what Sikh Dharma is. That is the yoga of chardee kalaa, and that is what Kundalini Yoga is. And that is what Tantra Yoga is… Raaj Yog is the basic philosophy, mentality and the dimension in which the mind and the dimension of the mind unite to achieve sovereignty of Godhood."
— SIRI SINGH SAHIB YOGIJI · 20 JULY 1980
The Siri Singh Sahib Yogiji taught extensively about Guru Ram Das in this connection — that Guru Ram Das holds the Golden Chain, that Guru Ram Das is the Lord of Miracles, and most importantly that the throne of Raj Yog was bestowed upon him. The succession is named directly in Gurbani:
"After Lord Krishna, the takhat of Raaj Yog was empty. After Lord Krishna it was given to Guru Ram Das."
Raaj jog takhat deean Gur Ram Das
The throne of Raj Yog was perpetually given to Guru Ram Das.
— SIRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB · ANG 1399
This is the lineage. Janak — Krishna — Baba Sri Chand — Guru Ram Das — the Siri Singh Sahib Yogiji — Yogi Amandeep Ji. Transmission carrying transmission, named in the scripture itself. There is no historical gap to apologize for, because the historicity of a transmission-lineage is the unbroken passing of the awakened recognition from master to student.
King Janak is at the source of this stream for a reason. He is the sage-king who received the direct nondual transmission from Ashtavakra — the Ashtavakra Gita is his record of it — and Yogi Amandeep Ji names him as the progenitor of Raj Yog for exactly this reason. The throne of Raj Yog is the throne of direct realization: the recognition that the seeker is the sought, that "whenever you meet the Supreme Brahman, it will meet you as you." This is what flows down through Krishna, through Baba Sri Chand who carries the Udasi throne of the yogis, through Guru Ram Das who carries the householder throne, through the entire Sikh nondual stream of Gurbani, and into Kundalini Yoga as the form it took for the West.
What Yogi Amandeep Ji is doing now is revealing what was always there. The nondual core of Gurbani — every line of it pointing to that aham, that "I-ness" which is neither Hindu nor Muslim nor Sikh, which is simply is-ness — and the nondual core of Kundalini Yoga, which the Siri Singh Sahib Yogiji wrapped in the technology and language his Western students could receive in their moment. The Siri Singh Sahib Yogiji taught for his time. The kriyas, the white clothing, the discipline of 3HO — these were the form the transmission needed to take to land in 1969 America. Now the Western students are ready for the inside of what was given. Yogi Amandeep Ji is opening that inside.
The throne of the Udasi
Baba Sri Chand · the first transmission.
The lineage of Yogi Amandeep Ji descends through the Udasin and Nirmala traditions — the householder-yogi streams of Sikh Dharma. At the head of the Udasi tradition stands Baba Sri Chand, the elder son of Guru Nanak, recognized in the yogic world as the very form of Shiva returned.
Yogi Amandeep Ji teaches that Baba Sri Chand was initiated by Guru Nanak himself at the age of seven, groomed to be a perfect yogi, and crowned by his father to receive the throne of the Udasi tradition twenty-four years before the Guru Gaddi was given to Guru Angad. Baba Sri Chand had no claim on the householder throne — he had already received a different one. As Yogi Amandeep Ji puts it, drawing on the Siri Singh Sahib Yogiji's own words:
"Guru Gaddi is given to Lehna who became Guru Angad. Through selfless service he attained it. The Udasi Gaddi of mind is given to Sri Chand." — Yogi Amandeep Ji, quoting the Siri Singh Sahib Yogiji
The Udasi tradition was founded by Guru Nanak on the orders of his own realization. Baba Sri Chand became its second teacher, and through him the yogic side of Guru Nanak's transmission was preserved. He was crowned by Guru Nanak to take care of the yogis themselves — to bring the wandering renunciate orders into accountable relationship with the householder Dharma.
"Baba Sri Chand is the very form of Shiva." — the Siri Singh Sahib Yogiji, taught by Yogi Amandeep Ji
The image above shows Baba Sri Chand in the iconography the lineage preserves: seated in meditation on a tiger skin before the dhuni — the sacred fire of the yogis — with a peacock at his feet, deer drinking at the river, the Himalayan mountains rising behind him, and the halo of golden light around his head. He held the golden body, ageless, and lived for one hundred and fifty-one years across the lives of multiple Sikh Gurus. When the sixth Guru, Guru Hargobind, came to visit, Baba Sri Chand asked for the Guru's elder son and initiated him — making Baba Gurditta the next teacher in the Udasi line, so that the transmission continued unbroken.
From this same root, Yogi Amandeep Ji teaches, came another great stream: the Nirmala tradition. Guru Gobind Singh, seeing that the intellectual and yogic side of the Sikhs had been thinned by centuries of defense and martyrdom, sent five Sikhs to Banaras — the great yogic university of the age — to master the inner sciences. When they returned, he named them Nirmalas, the pure ones, and sent them out to give what they had learned to the common man. From the Nirmala tradition came generations of master yogis — hatha yogis, kundalini yogis, bhakti yogis. The Siri Singh Sahib Yogiji's own teacher in the physical plane, Sant Hazara Singh, belonged to this very tradition.
"On the other side, after Guru Nanak was Baba Sri Chand — all the way down to the time of Guru Hargobind. Because Baba Sri Chand was one hundred and fifty-one years old. Different Gurus came and went, and he was still there." — Yogi Amandeep Ji
The Mahasiddha Baba Sri Chand Ashram in Punjab — which carries Yogi Amandeep Ji's work — is rooted in this lineage. Its name is the lineage: directly linked with Nirmal Panchati Akhara in Kankhal, Haridwar, the headquarters of the Nirmallay Sikh Sadhu tradition. To teach under this authorization is to teach under the spiritual umbrella of Baba Sri Chand himself.
"According to some Udasi tradition of the Sikhs, Baba Sri Chand and Gorakshanath are the same person. They view Gorakshanath, Babaji, Shiva, and Baba Sri Chand as all having the same energy — the same universal vibrations." — Yogi Amandeep Ji
This is the throne of the Udasi, the throne of the mind — the throne of the yogis. It is from this seat that the authorization to teach descends, and it is to this seat that the lineage continues to refer.
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