Brother Arun (Ed Glassman)

 

t is with sadness that we report that  Brother Arun (Edward Roy) Glassman passed away peacefully in his sleep on August 5, 2025 in Denver, Colorado.

Arun was born in Detroit, Michigan on January 1, 1953 and became a margii in the early 1970’s.

He attended LFT training in Los Altos Hills, California in September 1972. After training, Arun was an organizer of Renaissance Artists and Writers (RAWA) events at the early retreats in New York Sector as well as in Denver, Colorado where he worked on the RAWA magazine Art for Humanity. During this period, he founded Cosmic Circle Puppets and did shows all around Colorado. In addition, he was one of the main organizers of the Celebrations of Unity, events which brought together spiritualists with kiirtan and songs.

He studied Puppetry, Theater and Broadcast Communications at Denver, Colorado’s Lorreta Heights College, and later went on to become a teacher in the Denver School of the Arts where he directed the Video Cinema Arts Program. He was married to Mahajyoti and has two daughters, Katie and Jonnah.

In Denver, Mahajyoti and Arun founded the Morning Star Preschool.

Arun's expertise in audio-visual communications has proven invaluable over the past 50 years, during which he consistently provided essential technical support at retreats and various events. He was a primary organizer of RAWA’s Songs for Social Change contests from 2016-2022 and was also a key part of the Ananda Marga Gurukul educational programs, often providing audio-visual and technical support to a variety of programs in the US and abroad.

He will be missed by his immediate family and the wider Ananda Marga family.

(compiled by Dada Vedaprajinananda with the help of Mahadeva Friedman)

"Arun with his untamed red hair reaching for the sky, his infectious laugh letting you know there was joy in the room, his beautiful linear face coveted by Van Gogh and Picasso for their masterpieces, his long Paul Bunyan strides, his ability to see the sublime in the ridiculous , his sense of awe, his playfulness, his ability to laugh at his own shortcomings, his joy in other people's successes, his worrying about his daughters happiness, his love of the arts and teaching, his caring for other people's children, his ability to not see you for a year yet pickup a conversation like you had been talking together yesterday will be truly missed. A fine husband, loving father, great friend, and true devotee, you will always remain in our hearts." --a remembrance from Bhaskar (New Haven)