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Gurbani (14-53)
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Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
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Baavan Akhari (250-262)
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Thittee (296-300)
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Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
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Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
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Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
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Gurbani (1327-1341)
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Gurbani (1352-53)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 133095" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Anti-Islam pastor called controlling, "mad"</span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Fri, Sep 10 2010 </span></p><p><span style="color: #002060">By </span><a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=jane.sutton&" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #002060">Jane Sutton</span></u></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>MIAMI (Reuters)</strong> - The Florida Christian preacher who has received world fame and condemnation by threatening to burn a pile of Korans demands strict obedience and unpaid labor from his tiny flock and sells used furniture out of his sanctuary, those who know him say.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">He was ejected from a church he headed in Germany by his own followers. Even his daughter says she believes he has lost his mind in his fanatical crusade against Islam.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Terry Jones, a previously obscure 58-year-old fundamentalist pastor with slicked-back gray hair and a shaggy mustache, has gained a global pulpit with his proposed burning of Korans, the Islamic holy book.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">His estranged daughter, Emma Jones, called the church a cult that forced obedience through "mental violence" and threats of God's punishment. She said he ignored her emails urging him not to burn Korans.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"I think he has gone mad," she told Germany's Spiegel Online.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">President Barack Obama seemed unwilling to bolster Jones' sudden fame when he referred to him in a news conference on Friday as "the individual down in Florida" without mentioning his name.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">But Obama said Koran-burning could badly damage the United States abroad and endanger the lives of Americans.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Jones' nondenominational Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has only a few dozen members.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">And until the former hotel manager launched "International Burn a Koran Day" -- which is now on hold -- he was relatively unknown except to his Gainesville neighbors and his former congregation in Cologne, Germany.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">His detractors describe a controlling man who preached that working for his obscure church was the only route to salvation and that leaving would bring damnation.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Dove World members live in properties owned by the church or by Jones and his wife Sylvia, and work 40 hours a week as volunteers packing and selling used furniture and merchandise with anti-Islam slogans over the Internet, the Gainesville Sun newspaper said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Dove World last year lost part of the tax-exempt status that U.S. churches enjoy when the local appraiser determined that part of the property was used as a for-profit business and was therefore subject to taxation.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>"DELUSIONAL PERSONALITY"</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The church in Gainesville also ran an academy where a half dozen live-in students underwent a three-year program aimed at breaking their pride and teaching them "to humble themselves not only under God's mighty hand but under the hand of man as well," the Gainesville Sun in a report last year quoted Sylvia Jones as saying.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The newspaper in a 2009 report posted an academy rule book, which it said was outdated, that described the school's strict regime.</span></p><p><span style="color: #002060">Students had to follow orders, ask permission to speak, submit to weekly weigh-ins and room inspections, and avoid sweets, alcohol and restaurants, it said. They were forbidden to have romantic relationships or phone or visit family or friends, even if it meant missing weddings and funerals.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Since 2001, Jones had divided his time between Florida and Germany. Parishioners ousted Jones in 2008 from the Christian Community of Cologne, the church he ran in Germany, where he lived for decades. He was booted out because of his radicalism and suspicion of financial abuses, Spiegel Online said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Andrew Schafer, a Protestant Church official responsible for monitoring sects in the Cologne region, said Jones seemed to have a "delusional personality" and brainwashed his flock.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Its members, who numbered between 800 and 1,000, were required to work in his food bank charities, he said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Jones seemed to consider Cologne "a city of Hell that was founded by Nero's mother," and thought Germany was "a key country for the supposed Christian revival of Europe," Schafer told Spiegel Online.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Jones demonized homosexuals -- including the gay mayor of Gainesville -- and increasingly targeted Islam in his sermons, preaching that Muslims were trying to take over the United States and impose Sharia law.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Children in his Florida congregation were sent to school wearing T-shirts that proclaimed "Islam is of the Devil," until school officials banned the shirts.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Jones' son, Luke Jones, told reporters the group's aim in burning Korans was "to confront a religion which we believe is leading people to hell."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"Think of me as crazy. Think of us as crazy. That's up to you."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Luke Jones and at least one other church follower have taken to wearing holstered handguns on their hips after death threats against them.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>source: </strong></span><A href="http://w/" target=_blank><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6894NF20100910" target="_blank"><span style="color: #7030a0">http://w</span></a><span style="color: #7030a0"><u>ww.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6894NF20100910</u></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 133095, member: 884"] [COLOR=#002060][B][SIZE=5]Anti-Islam pastor called controlling, "mad"[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Fri, Sep 10 2010 [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]By [/COLOR][URL="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=jane.sutton&"][U][COLOR=#002060]Jane Sutton[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [COLOR=#002060][B]MIAMI (Reuters)[/B] - The Florida Christian preacher who has received world fame and condemnation by threatening to burn a pile of Korans demands strict obedience and unpaid labor from his tiny flock and sells used furniture out of his sanctuary, those who know him say.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]He was ejected from a church he headed in Germany by his own followers. Even his daughter says she believes he has lost his mind in his fanatical crusade against Islam.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Terry Jones, a previously obscure 58-year-old fundamentalist pastor with slicked-back gray hair and a shaggy mustache, has gained a global pulpit with his proposed burning of Korans, the Islamic holy book.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]His estranged daughter, Emma Jones, called the church a cult that forced obedience through "mental violence" and threats of God's punishment. She said he ignored her emails urging him not to burn Korans.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"I think he has gone mad," she told Germany's Spiegel Online.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]President Barack Obama seemed unwilling to bolster Jones' sudden fame when he referred to him in a news conference on Friday as "the individual down in Florida" without mentioning his name.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]But Obama said Koran-burning could badly damage the United States abroad and endanger the lives of Americans.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Jones' nondenominational Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has only a few dozen members.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]And until the former hotel manager launched "International Burn a Koran Day" -- which is now on hold -- he was relatively unknown except to his Gainesville neighbors and his former congregation in Cologne, Germany.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]His detractors describe a controlling man who preached that working for his obscure church was the only route to salvation and that leaving would bring damnation.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Dove World members live in properties owned by the church or by Jones and his wife Sylvia, and work 40 hours a week as volunteers packing and selling used furniture and merchandise with anti-Islam slogans over the Internet, the Gainesville Sun newspaper said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Dove World last year lost part of the tax-exempt status that U.S. churches enjoy when the local appraiser determined that part of the property was used as a for-profit business and was therefore subject to taxation.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][B]"DELUSIONAL PERSONALITY"[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]The church in Gainesville also ran an academy where a half dozen live-in students underwent a three-year program aimed at breaking their pride and teaching them "to humble themselves not only under God's mighty hand but under the hand of man as well," the Gainesville Sun in a report last year quoted Sylvia Jones as saying.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]The newspaper in a 2009 report posted an academy rule book, which it said was outdated, that described the school's strict regime.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Students had to follow orders, ask permission to speak, submit to weekly weigh-ins and room inspections, and avoid sweets, alcohol and restaurants, it said. They were forbidden to have romantic relationships or phone or visit family or friends, even if it meant missing weddings and funerals.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Since 2001, Jones had divided his time between Florida and Germany. Parishioners ousted Jones in 2008 from the Christian Community of Cologne, the church he ran in Germany, where he lived for decades. He was booted out because of his radicalism and suspicion of financial abuses, Spiegel Online said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Andrew Schafer, a Protestant Church official responsible for monitoring sects in the Cologne region, said Jones seemed to have a "delusional personality" and brainwashed his flock.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Its members, who numbered between 800 and 1,000, were required to work in his food bank charities, he said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Jones seemed to consider Cologne "a city of Hell that was founded by Nero's mother," and thought Germany was "a key country for the supposed Christian revival of Europe," Schafer told Spiegel Online.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Jones demonized homosexuals -- including the gay mayor of Gainesville -- and increasingly targeted Islam in his sermons, preaching that Muslims were trying to take over the United States and impose Sharia law.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Children in his Florida congregation were sent to school wearing T-shirts that proclaimed "Islam is of the Devil," until school officials banned the shirts.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Jones' son, Luke Jones, told reporters the group's aim in burning Korans was "to confront a religion which we believe is leading people to hell."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"Think of me as crazy. Think of us as crazy. That's up to you."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Luke Jones and at least one other church follower have taken to wearing holstered handguns on their hips after death threats against them.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][B]source: [/B][/COLOR]<A href="http://w/" target=_blank>[URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6894NF20100910"][COLOR=#7030a0]http://w[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#7030a0][U]ww.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6894NF20100910[/U][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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