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Gurbani (14-53)
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Pahre (74-78)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
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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)
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Thintteen (343-344)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
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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)
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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)
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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: 138953" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #002060">Faith in a globalized age</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">December 23, 2010 - The Toronto Star</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>Tony Blair </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>LONDON</strong>—For years, it was assumed, certainly in the West, that, as society developed, religion would wither away. But it hasn’t and, at the start of a new decade, it is time for policy-makers to take religion seriously.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">The number of people proclaiming their faith worldwide is growing. This is clearly so in the Islamic world. Whereas Europe’s birth rate is stagnant, the Arab population is set to double in the coming decades, and the population will rise in many Asian Muslim-majority countries. Christianity is also growing — in odd ways and in surprising places.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Religion’s largest growth is in China. Indeed, the religiosity of China is worth reflecting on. There are more Muslims in China than in Europe, more practising Protestants than in England, and more practising Catholics than in Italy. In addition, according to the latest surveys, around 100 million Chinese identify themselves as Buddhist. And, of course, Confucianism — a philosophy rather than a religion — is deeply revered.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">There is a huge evangelical movement in Brazil and Mexico. Faith remains for many in the United States a vital part of their lives. Even in Europe, the numbers confessing to a belief in God remain high. And, of course, there are hundreds of millions of Hindus and still solid numbers of Sikhs and Jews.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Those of faith do great work because of it. Around 40 per cent of health care in Africa is delivered by faith-based organizations. Muslim, Hindu and Jewish relief groups are active the world over in combating poverty and disease. In any developed nation, you will find selfless care being provided to the disabled, the dying, the destitute and the disadvantaged by people acting under the impulse of their faith. Common to all great religions is love of neighbours and human equality before God.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Unfortunately, compassion is not the only context in which religion motivates people. It can also promote extremism, even terrorism. This is where faith becomes a badge of identity in opposition to those who do not share it, a kind of spiritual nationalism that regards those who do not agree — even those within a faith who live a different view of it — as unbelievers, infidels and thus enemies.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">To a degree, this has always been so. What has changed is the pressure of globalization, which is pushing the world’s peoples ever closer together as technology advances and shrinks the world. Growing up 50 years ago, children might rarely meet someone of a different cultural or faith background. Today, when I stand in my 10-year-old son’s playground or look at his friends at his birthday party, I find myriad different languages, faiths and colours.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Personally, I rejoice in this. But such a world requires that mutual respect replace mutual suspicion. Such a world upends traditions and challenges old thinking, forcing us to choose consciously to embrace it. Or not.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">And there is the rub: For some, this force is a threat. It menaces deeply conservative societies. And, for those for whom religion matters, globalization can sometimes be accompanied by an aggressive secularism or hedonism that makes many uneasy.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">So we must make sense of how the world of faith interacts with the compulsive process of globalization. Yet it is extraordinary how little political time or energy we devote to doing so. Most of the conflicts in today’s world have a religious dimension. Extremism based on a perversion of Islam shows no sign of abating; indeed, it will not abate until it is taken on religiously, as well as by security measures.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">This extremism is slowly but surely producing its own reaction, as we see from Islamaphobic parties’ electoral gains in Europe, and statements by European leaders that multiculturalism has failed.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Of course, throughout time, religion has often been part of a political conflict. But that doesn’t mean that religion should be discounted. On the contrary, it requires a special focus. I see this very plainly spending so much time in Jerusalem, where — East and West — there is an emphatic increase in religiosity.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">I started my </span><a href="http://www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002060">Faith Foundation</span></a><span style="color: #002060"> precisely to create greater understanding between the faiths. My reasoning is simple. Those advocating extremism in the name of religion are active, well resourced and — whatever the reactionary nature of their thinking — brilliant at using modern communication and technology. We estimate that literally billions of dollars every year are devoted to promoting this view of religion.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">So my foundation has a university program — now underway in nine countries — that is designed to take religion out of the sole preserve of divinity schools and start analyzing its role in the world today. We have another program — in 15 countries, with others set to join — that links high-school students across the world through interactive technology to discuss their faith and what it means to them. And we have an action program through which young people work with those of another faith to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations-led program to combat world poverty.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">We are just one organization. There are others starting. But governments should start to take this far more seriously. The </span><a href="http://www.unaoc.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002060">Alliance of Civilizations</span></a><span style="color: #002060">, begun by Spain and Turkey, is one example. The king of Saudi Arabia has also shown great leadership in this sphere. Yet this is not just about bringing high-level people together. It has to be taken down into the grassroots of nations, especially into the media of their young people.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Finally, religious leaders must accept a new responsibility: to stand up firmly and resolutely for respecting those of faiths different from their own. Aggressive secularists and extremists feed off each other. Together, they do constitute a real challenge to people of faith. We must demonstrate the loving nature of true faith; otherwise, religion will be defined by a battle in which extremists seize control of faith communities and secularists claim that such attitudes are intrinsic to religion.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">This would be a tragedy. For, above all, it is in this era of globalization that faith can represent reason and progress. Religion isn’t dying; nor should it. The world needs faith.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>source: </strong></span></p><p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/911281--faith-in-a-globalized-age" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #002060">http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/911281--faith-in-a-globalized-age</span></u></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 138953, member: 884"] [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#002060]Faith in a globalized age[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [COLOR=#002060]December 23, 2010 - The Toronto Star[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][B]Tony Blair [/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][B]Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][B]LONDON[/B]—For years, it was assumed, certainly in the West, that, as society developed, religion would wither away. But it hasn’t and, at the start of a new decade, it is time for policy-makers to take religion seriously.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]The number of people proclaiming their faith worldwide is growing. This is clearly so in the Islamic world. Whereas Europe’s birth rate is stagnant, the Arab population is set to double in the coming decades, and the population will rise in many Asian Muslim-majority countries. Christianity is also growing — in odd ways and in surprising places.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Religion’s largest growth is in China. Indeed, the religiosity of China is worth reflecting on. There are more Muslims in China than in Europe, more practising Protestants than in England, and more practising Catholics than in Italy. In addition, according to the latest surveys, around 100 million Chinese identify themselves as Buddhist. And, of course, Confucianism — a philosophy rather than a religion — is deeply revered.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]There is a huge evangelical movement in Brazil and Mexico. Faith remains for many in the United States a vital part of their lives. Even in Europe, the numbers confessing to a belief in God remain high. And, of course, there are hundreds of millions of Hindus and still solid numbers of Sikhs and Jews.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Those of faith do great work because of it. Around 40 per cent of health care in Africa is delivered by faith-based organizations. Muslim, Hindu and Jewish relief groups are active the world over in combating poverty and disease. In any developed nation, you will find selfless care being provided to the disabled, the dying, the destitute and the disadvantaged by people acting under the impulse of their faith. Common to all great religions is love of neighbours and human equality before God.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Unfortunately, compassion is not the only context in which religion motivates people. It can also promote extremism, even terrorism. This is where faith becomes a badge of identity in opposition to those who do not share it, a kind of spiritual nationalism that regards those who do not agree — even those within a faith who live a different view of it — as unbelievers, infidels and thus enemies.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]To a degree, this has always been so. What has changed is the pressure of globalization, which is pushing the world’s peoples ever closer together as technology advances and shrinks the world. Growing up 50 years ago, children might rarely meet someone of a different cultural or faith background. Today, when I stand in my 10-year-old son’s playground or look at his friends at his birthday party, I find myriad different languages, faiths and colours.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Personally, I rejoice in this. But such a world requires that mutual respect replace mutual suspicion. Such a world upends traditions and challenges old thinking, forcing us to choose consciously to embrace it. Or not.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]And there is the rub: For some, this force is a threat. It menaces deeply conservative societies. And, for those for whom religion matters, globalization can sometimes be accompanied by an aggressive secularism or hedonism that makes many uneasy.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]So we must make sense of how the world of faith interacts with the compulsive process of globalization. Yet it is extraordinary how little political time or energy we devote to doing so. Most of the conflicts in today’s world have a religious dimension. Extremism based on a perversion of Islam shows no sign of abating; indeed, it will not abate until it is taken on religiously, as well as by security measures.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]This extremism is slowly but surely producing its own reaction, as we see from Islamaphobic parties’ electoral gains in Europe, and statements by European leaders that multiculturalism has failed.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Of course, throughout time, religion has often been part of a political conflict. But that doesn’t mean that religion should be discounted. On the contrary, it requires a special focus. I see this very plainly spending so much time in Jerusalem, where — East and West — there is an emphatic increase in religiosity.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]I started my [/COLOR][URL="http://www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/"][COLOR=#002060]Faith Foundation[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#002060] precisely to create greater understanding between the faiths. My reasoning is simple. Those advocating extremism in the name of religion are active, well resourced and — whatever the reactionary nature of their thinking — brilliant at using modern communication and technology. We estimate that literally billions of dollars every year are devoted to promoting this view of religion.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]So my foundation has a university program — now underway in nine countries — that is designed to take religion out of the sole preserve of divinity schools and start analyzing its role in the world today. We have another program — in 15 countries, with others set to join — that links high-school students across the world through interactive technology to discuss their faith and what it means to them. And we have an action program through which young people work with those of another faith to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations-led program to combat world poverty.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]We are just one organization. There are others starting. But governments should start to take this far more seriously. The [/COLOR][URL="http://www.unaoc.org/"][COLOR=#002060]Alliance of Civilizations[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#002060], begun by Spain and Turkey, is one example. The king of Saudi Arabia has also shown great leadership in this sphere. Yet this is not just about bringing high-level people together. It has to be taken down into the grassroots of nations, especially into the media of their young people.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Finally, religious leaders must accept a new responsibility: to stand up firmly and resolutely for respecting those of faiths different from their own. Aggressive secularists and extremists feed off each other. Together, they do constitute a real challenge to people of faith. We must demonstrate the loving nature of true faith; otherwise, religion will be defined by a battle in which extremists seize control of faith communities and secularists claim that such attitudes are intrinsic to religion.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]This would be a tragedy. For, above all, it is in this era of globalization that faith can represent reason and progress. Religion isn’t dying; nor should it. The world needs faith.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][B]source: [/B][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/911281--faith-in-a-globalized-age"][U][COLOR=#002060]http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/911281--faith-in-a-globalized-age[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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