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Composition, Arrangement & Layout
ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
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)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
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)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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Gurmat Vichaar
Gurmat Vichar - Discussions
Dhan Dhan Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji
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<blockquote data-quote="Sikh80" data-source="post: 66640" data-attributes="member: 5290"><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Comments on Sri Guru Granth Sahib by Non-Sikhs</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This is what </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Arthur_Macauliffe" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Max Arthur Macauliffe</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> writes about the authenticity of the Guru's teaching</span></span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Sikh</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> religion differs as regards the authenticity of its </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">dogmas</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> from most other </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theological" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">theological</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> systems. Many of the great teachers the world has known, have not left a line of their own composition and we only know what they taught through tradition or second-hand information. If </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Pythagoras</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> wrote of his </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenet" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">tenets</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">, his writings have not descended to us. We know the teachings of </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Socrates</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> only through the writings of </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Plato</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> and </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Xenophon</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">. </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Buddha</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> has left no written memorial of his teaching. Kungfu-tze, known to Europeans as </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Confucius</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">, left no documents in which he detailed the principles of his moral and social system. The founder of </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Christianity</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> did not reduce his doctrines to writing and for them we are obliged to trust to the gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Arabian Prophet</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> did not himself reduce to writing the chapters of the </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Quran</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">. They were written or compiled by his adherents and followers. But the compositions of Sikh Gurus are preserved and we know at first hand what they taught.</span></span></em></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Miss Pearl S. Buck</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">, a </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Nobel</span></span></span></u></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laureate" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">laureate</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, gives the following comment on receiving the First English translation of the Guru Granth Sahib:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">.... I have studied the scriptures of the great religions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the heart and mind as I find here in these volumes. They are compact in spite of their length, and are a revelation of the vast reach of the human heart, varying from the most noble concept of </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">God</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, to the recognition and indeed the insistence upon the practical needs of the human body. There is something strangely modern about these scriptures and this puzzles me until I learned that they are in fact comparatively modern, compiled as late as the 16th century, when explorers were beginning to discover that the globe upon which we all live is a single entity divided only by arbitrary lines of our own making. Perhaps this sense of unity is the source of power I find in these volumes. <strong>They speak to a person of any religion or of none</strong>. They speak for the human heart and the searching mind. ... </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sikh80, post: 66640, member: 5290"] [B][FONT=Times New Roman]Comments on Sri Guru Granth Sahib by Non-Sikhs[/FONT][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]This is what [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Arthur_Macauliffe"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Max Arthur Macauliffe[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] writes about the authenticity of the Guru's teaching[/FONT][/SIZE] [I][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Sikh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] religion differs as regards the authenticity of its [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]dogmas[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] from most other [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theological"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]theological[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] systems. Many of the great teachers the world has known, have not left a line of their own composition and we only know what they taught through tradition or second-hand information. If [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Pythagoras[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] wrote of his [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenet"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]tenets[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], his writings have not descended to us. We know the teachings of [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Socrates[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] only through the writings of [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Plato[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] and [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Xenophon[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]. [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Buddha[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] has left no written memorial of his teaching. Kungfu-tze, known to Europeans as [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Confucius[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], left no documents in which he detailed the principles of his moral and social system. The founder of [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Christianity[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] did not reduce his doctrines to writing and for them we are obliged to trust to the gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. 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Buck[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], a [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Nobel[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laureate"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]laureate[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman], gives the following comment on receiving the First English translation of the Guru Granth Sahib:[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3].... I have studied the scriptures of the great religions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the heart and mind as I find here in these volumes. 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