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ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
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Gurbani (975-980)
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Gurbani (984-988)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
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Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
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Bara Maha (1107-1110)
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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
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Gurbani (1197-1200)
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Gurbani (1254-1293)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
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<blockquote data-quote="Harjas Kaur Khalsa" data-source="post: 78986" data-attributes="member: 2125"><p>This is a superficial characterization since Western and Eastern traditions have radical differences. Judaism says God is an indivisible Oneness, and Christianity says God is a Trintiy with one fully human and equally fully Divine incarnation and is really a synthesis of Greek and Roman religions into Judaism with roots from Egyptian and Iranian religions. And Islam goes back to the Oneness. Judaism and Islam have no concept of an avatar, yet Jesus is like an avatar which has some parallel to Krishna (Krystos-Christ). So the traditions really don't fit well together as it seems. While Christianity and Islam both accept the Jewish scriptures as foundational in their beliefs, Judaism really only sees the Torah (first 5 books) as Divine, and do not recognize at all any posibility for God to be incarnate in a man. So there is no progression of beliefs here.</p><p></p><p>Moreover Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaaj isn't a testament. It's a Living Presence. The New Testament is just a collection of stories about Jesus and lives of disciples. There is no parallel at all. It was written hundreds of years after his death. How can you compare the Vedas, Puraanas and simritis as an Old Testament? It's obvious that Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji is the complete wisdom of the Hindu scriptures, the Q'uran and the kateb and also a more complete and correct expression of spirituality than what has ever been before, for a new age. So we would have to conclude every major scripture in the world is an Old Testament compared to Gurbani. Gurbani is the new revelation of spirituality for the whole world, not just Hindus. Unless you think Shabad Guru is just a history book. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Look at it this way, from what Gurbani is saying, are there previous ages? How did people reach God in those ages? Or was there no way for God to reach the people? Have there never been holy God realized souls before Guru? Are there no holy people before the Sikhs?</p><p></p><p>And do living things evolve over time? Or is everything static and unchanging, as in a bird always a bird and no evolutionary process?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Ask yourself, is the Gurbani saying there is a spiritual evolution at work in the world based on different ages and understandings of men? And think about the first avatar being a fish, then think again about evolutionary theory that life evolved from the ocean, from fish and then to human beings. Gurbani is relating a story of creation in this pauris, not aligning itself to Hindu religion. The wisdom of the Vedas and of the ancient truths isn't separate, all truth is One. It doesn't belong to Hinduism. Guruji is relating true facts about the material universe to explain process of bondage and liberation. Gurbani contains the fullness of the wisdom of the past. You don't have to cling to old scriptures and forms of the God. But because truth never contradicts, those elements which were truth in past ages don't become untruths in this one.</p><p></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Indigo">ਤੁਧੁ ਧਿਆਇਨ੍ਹ੍ਹਿ ਬੇਦ ਕਤੇਬਾ ਸਣੁ ਖੜੇ ॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Indigo">thudhh dhhiaaeinih baedh kathaebaa san kharrae ||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Indigo">The followers of the Vedas, the Bible and the Koran, standing at Your Door, meditate on You. </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Indigo"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Indigo">ਗਣਤੀ ਗਣੀ ਨ ਜਾਇ ਤੇਰੈ ਦਰਿ ਪੜੇ ॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Indigo">ganathee ganee n jaae thaerai dhar parrae ||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Indigo">Uncounted are those who fall at Your Door. </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Indigo">~SGGS Ji p. 518</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">ਗੁਰ ਸਭਾ ਏਵ ਨ ਪਾਈਐ ਨਾ ਨੇੜੈ ਨਾ ਦੂਰਿ ॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">sapath dheep sapath saagaraa nav khandd chaar vaedh dhas asatt puraanaa ||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">The seven islands, seven seas, nine continents, four Vedas and eighteen Puraanas </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">ਹਰਿ ਸਭਨਾ ਵਿਚਿ ਤੂੰ ਵਰਤਦਾ ਹਰਿ ਸਭਨਾ ਭਾਣਾ ॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">har sabhanaa vich thoon varathadhaa har sabhanaa bhaanaa ||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">O Lord, You pervade and permeate all. Lord, everyone loves You. </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">ਸਭਿ ਤੁਝੈ ਧਿਆਵਹਿ ਜੀਅ ਜੰਤ ਹਰਿ ਸਾਰਗ ਪਾਣਾ ॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">sabh thujhai dhhiaavehi jeea janth har saarag paanaa ||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">All beings and creatures meditate on You, Lord. You hold the earth in Your Hands. </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">ਜੋ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਹਰਿ ਆਰਾਧਦੇ ਤਿਨ ਹਉ ਕੁਰਬਾਣਾ ॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">jo guramukh har aaraadhhadhae thin ho kurabaanaa ||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">I am a sacrifice to those Gurmukhs who worship and adore the Lord. </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">ਤੂੰ ਆਪੇ ਆਪਿ ਵਰਤਦਾ ਕਰਿ ਚੋਜ ਵਿਡਾਣਾ ॥੪॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">thoon aapae aap varathadhaa kar choj viddaanaa ||4||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">You Yourself are All-pervading; You stage this wondrous drama! ||4||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: Blue">~SGGS Ji p. 84</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed">ਨਿਰਗੁਣੁ ਸਰਗੁਣੁ ਆਪੇ ਸੋਈ ॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed">niragun saragun aapae soee ||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed">The Lord Himself is Unmanifest and Unrelated; He is Manifest and Related as well. </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed">ਤਤੁ ਪਛਾਣੈ ਸੋ ਪੰਡਿਤੁ ਹੋਈ ॥ </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed">thath pashhaanai so panddith hoee ||</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed">Those who recognize this essential reality are the true Pandits, the spiritual scholars.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: DarkRed">~SGGS Ji p. 128</span></p><p></p><p>Gurbani says the unmanifest Lord is manifesting Himself throughout the ages. Why would this be a parallel to dogmatic Old testaments? Nowhere does Gurbani say cart around with you and study from the Vedas, Q'uran or Kateb. Gurbani is Gurbani. It has no parallel. But likewise, it didn't spring out of nowhere. Gurbani is a Living Divine manifestation of Shabad-Jyot which has been shining in the world since the beginning of creation. And that is because Gurbani is no mere history book, but has within it even the unmanifest which is outside of the bondage of Time, and therefore, Timeless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harjas Kaur Khalsa, post: 78986, member: 2125"] This is a superficial characterization since Western and Eastern traditions have radical differences. Judaism says God is an indivisible Oneness, and Christianity says God is a Trintiy with one fully human and equally fully Divine incarnation and is really a synthesis of Greek and Roman religions into Judaism with roots from Egyptian and Iranian religions. And Islam goes back to the Oneness. Judaism and Islam have no concept of an avatar, yet Jesus is like an avatar which has some parallel to Krishna (Krystos-Christ). So the traditions really don't fit well together as it seems. While Christianity and Islam both accept the Jewish scriptures as foundational in their beliefs, Judaism really only sees the Torah (first 5 books) as Divine, and do not recognize at all any posibility for God to be incarnate in a man. So there is no progression of beliefs here. Moreover Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaaj isn't a testament. It's a Living Presence. The New Testament is just a collection of stories about Jesus and lives of disciples. There is no parallel at all. It was written hundreds of years after his death. How can you compare the Vedas, Puraanas and simritis as an Old Testament? It's obvious that Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji is the complete wisdom of the Hindu scriptures, the Q'uran and the kateb and also a more complete and correct expression of spirituality than what has ever been before, for a new age. So we would have to conclude every major scripture in the world is an Old Testament compared to Gurbani. Gurbani is the new revelation of spirituality for the whole world, not just Hindus. Unless you think Shabad Guru is just a history book. Look at it this way, from what Gurbani is saying, are there previous ages? How did people reach God in those ages? Or was there no way for God to reach the people? Have there never been holy God realized souls before Guru? Are there no holy people before the Sikhs? And do living things evolve over time? Or is everything static and unchanging, as in a bird always a bird and no evolutionary process? Ask yourself, is the Gurbani saying there is a spiritual evolution at work in the world based on different ages and understandings of men? And think about the first avatar being a fish, then think again about evolutionary theory that life evolved from the ocean, from fish and then to human beings. Gurbani is relating a story of creation in this pauris, not aligning itself to Hindu religion. The wisdom of the Vedas and of the ancient truths isn't separate, all truth is One. It doesn't belong to Hinduism. Guruji is relating true facts about the material universe to explain process of bondage and liberation. Gurbani contains the fullness of the wisdom of the past. You don't have to cling to old scriptures and forms of the God. But because truth never contradicts, those elements which were truth in past ages don't become untruths in this one. [INDENT][COLOR="Indigo"]ਤੁਧੁ ਧਿਆਇਨ੍ਹ੍ਹਿ ਬੇਦ ਕਤੇਬਾ ਸਣੁ ਖੜੇ ॥ thudhh dhhiaaeinih baedh kathaebaa san kharrae || The followers of the Vedas, the Bible and the Koran, standing at Your Door, meditate on You. ਗਣਤੀ ਗਣੀ ਨ ਜਾਇ ਤੇਰੈ ਦਰਿ ਪੜੇ ॥ ganathee ganee n jaae thaerai dhar parrae || Uncounted are those who fall at Your Door. ~SGGS Ji p. 518[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT][COLOR="Blue"]ਗੁਰ ਸਭਾ ਏਵ ਨ ਪਾਈਐ ਨਾ ਨੇੜੈ ਨਾ ਦੂਰਿ ॥ sapath dheep sapath saagaraa nav khandd chaar vaedh dhas asatt puraanaa || The seven islands, seven seas, nine continents, four Vedas and eighteen Puraanas ਹਰਿ ਸਭਨਾ ਵਿਚਿ ਤੂੰ ਵਰਤਦਾ ਹਰਿ ਸਭਨਾ ਭਾਣਾ ॥ har sabhanaa vich thoon varathadhaa har sabhanaa bhaanaa || O Lord, You pervade and permeate all. Lord, everyone loves You. ਸਭਿ ਤੁਝੈ ਧਿਆਵਹਿ ਜੀਅ ਜੰਤ ਹਰਿ ਸਾਰਗ ਪਾਣਾ ॥ sabh thujhai dhhiaavehi jeea janth har saarag paanaa || All beings and creatures meditate on You, Lord. You hold the earth in Your Hands. ਜੋ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਹਰਿ ਆਰਾਧਦੇ ਤਿਨ ਹਉ ਕੁਰਬਾਣਾ ॥ jo guramukh har aaraadhhadhae thin ho kurabaanaa || I am a sacrifice to those Gurmukhs who worship and adore the Lord. ਤੂੰ ਆਪੇ ਆਪਿ ਵਰਤਦਾ ਕਰਿ ਚੋਜ ਵਿਡਾਣਾ ॥੪॥ thoon aapae aap varathadhaa kar choj viddaanaa ||4|| You Yourself are All-pervading; You stage this wondrous drama! ||4|| ~SGGS Ji p. 84[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT][COLOR="DarkRed"]ਨਿਰਗੁਣੁ ਸਰਗੁਣੁ ਆਪੇ ਸੋਈ ॥ niragun saragun aapae soee || The Lord Himself is Unmanifest and Unrelated; He is Manifest and Related as well. ਤਤੁ ਪਛਾਣੈ ਸੋ ਪੰਡਿਤੁ ਹੋਈ ॥ thath pashhaanai so panddith hoee || Those who recognize this essential reality are the true Pandits, the spiritual scholars. ~SGGS Ji p. 128[/COLOR][/INDENT] Gurbani says the unmanifest Lord is manifesting Himself throughout the ages. Why would this be a parallel to dogmatic Old testaments? Nowhere does Gurbani say cart around with you and study from the Vedas, Q'uran or Kateb. Gurbani is Gurbani. It has no parallel. But likewise, it didn't spring out of nowhere. Gurbani is a Living Divine manifestation of Shabad-Jyot which has been shining in the world since the beginning of creation. And that is because Gurbani is no mere history book, but has within it even the unmanifest which is outside of the bondage of Time, and therefore, Timeless. [/QUOTE]
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