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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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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 96436" data-attributes="member: 35"><p><strong>Re: Sikh Girls Who Do Not Cut Their Head Hair, But Remove All Other Hair on Their Bod</strong></p><p></p><p>Singh ji and Bhagat ji,</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: DarkRed">ਸਚਹੁ ਓਰੈ ਸਭੁ ਕੋ ਉਪਰਿ ਸਚੁ ਆਚਾਰੁ ॥੫॥</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: DarkRed"></span><span style="color: DarkRed"> sachahu ourai sabh ko oupar sach aachaar ||5||</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: DarkRed"></span><span style="color: DarkRed"> Truth is higher than everything; but higher still is truthful living.</span></strong> </p><p></p><p>Above is the highest of the high. </p><p></p><p></p><p>As for Sigmund Freud. No, I do not agree that Freud saw Ego as good. He saw it as neither bad nor good, but as a mental structure that evolves during infancy and into childhood. It is the seat of memory, language and rational thought. It is also responsible for the formation of the self-concept which requires as I said earlier compensatory strategies in order to feel "OK" with itself. These compensations according to Freud can become distorted and lead to mild or severe neurosis - self delusion. In that sense Freud and Nanak might be in agreement -- but this is a ridiculous comparison because Guru Nanak was deeply moved by the social and moral corruption around him and taught that deliverance mukhti comes from union with the creator. Freud on the other hand was seeking a scientific explanation for neurosis.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now that the person of Sigmund Freud has come up in the the context of the Gurus Sahiban, here are two interesting comparisons. Both were deeply interested in the reason for human suffering. Both were deeply committed to the "moral" dimension of human development. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Sigmund Freud said this about suffering: “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.” For Freud, the best that we could hope for was to learn to tolerate our suffering with grace. That was the purpose of psychoanalysis -- to learn how to suffer without losing our dignity. </p><p></p><p>And what did Gurus Sahiban have to say about suffering? It comes from,</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOliveGreen">ਜਗਿ ਹਉਮੈ ਮੈਲੁ ਦੁਖੁ ਪਾਇਆ ਮਲੁ ਲਾਗੀ ਦੂਜੈ ਭਾਇ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"></span> <span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"> jag houmai mail dhukh paaeiaa mal laagee dhoojai bhaae ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"></span> <span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"> The world is polluted with the filth of egotism, suffering in pain. This filth sticks to them because of their love of duality.</span></p><p></p><p>And it is released by union with the Divine Essence of the Naam, the identity of the Sat</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOliveGreen">ਵਿਜੋਗਿ ਮਿਲਿ ਵਿਛੁੜਿਆ ਸੰਜੋਗੀ ਮੇਲੁ ॥੨॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"></span> <span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"> vijog mil vishhurriaa sanjogee mael ||2||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"></span> <span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"> The separated ones meet, and by great good fortune, those suffering in separation are reunited once again. ||2||</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Black">It is curious that the loss of the objects of our love is the first cause of suffering for Freud. And Guru Nanak teaches us that when we cling in attachment to people -- what happens? <strong>We suffer</strong>.</span> </span><span style="color: Blue">ਮਾਤ ਪਿਤਾ ਬਨਿਤਾ ਸੁਤ ਬੰਧਪ ਇਸਟ ਮੀਤ ਅਰੁ ਭਾਈ ॥ਪੂਰਬ ਜਨਮ ਕੇ ਮਿਲੇ ਸੰਜੋਗੀ ਅੰਤਹਿ ਕੋ ਨ ਸਹਾਈ ॥੧॥ </span><span style="color: Blue">maath pithaa banithaa suth bandhhap eisatt meeth ar bhaaee || poorab janam kae milae sanjogee anthehi ko n sehaaee ||1|| </span><span style="color: Blue">Mother, father, spouse, children, relatives, lovers, friends and siblings meet, having been associated in previous lives; but none of them will be your companion and support in the end.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sigmund Freud had this to say about morality and the ego: through our collisions with other people, and in particular with our parents, our superego emerges from the ego. The superego becomes our internal parent, our conscience. It role is to keep our passions and our self-centered egos under control. The superego was to him both necessary and a positive development. Without a superego a person is a sociopath, without a sense of guilt, remorse or compassion.</p><p></p><p>And for Gurus Sahiban, guilt is an act of ignorance (deeds committed in the darkness that is cast on us in our ignorance of the True Guru).</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOliveGreen">ਜਿਹਿ ਪਰਲੋਕ ਜਾਇ ਅਪਕੀਰਤਿ ਸੋਈ ਅਬਿਦਿਆ ਸਾਧੀ ॥੨॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"></span> <span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"> jihi paralok jaae apakeerath soee abidhiaa saadhhee ||2||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"></span> <span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"> But when you go to the world beyond, your guilt will be well known, by the acts of ignorance which you committed. ||2||</span> (Sant Paramanand)</p><p></p><p>And the cure is</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen">ਸਤਿਗੁਰਿ ਸੇਵਿਐ ਦੂਜੀ ਦੁਰਮਤਿ ਜਾਈ ॥ </span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen">sathigur saeviai dhoojee dhuramath jaaee ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen">Serving the True Guru, duality and evil-mindedness are taken away.</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span> <span style="color: DarkGreen"> </span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen">ਅਉਗਣ ਕਾਟਿ ਪਾਪਾ ਮਤਿ ਖਾਈ ॥ </span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen">aougan kaatt paapaa math khaaee ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span> <span style="color: DarkGreen">Guilty mistakes are erased, and the sinful intellect is cleansed.</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Black"></span></span><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Black">So Freud and the Gurus would have made good conversation on the subjects of suffering and morality. But can you see that, although they are concerned with the same things, their understanding is completely different? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Black">One last thought: in both psychoanalyis and Gurbani, it is always the mind that has to be cleansed. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><span style="color: Black"></span></span><span style="color: DarkGreen">ਅਉਗਣ ਕਾਟਿ ਪਾਪਾ ਮਤਿ ਖਾਈ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span> <span style="color: DarkGreen"> aougan kaatt paapaa math khaaee ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span> <span style="color: DarkGreen"> Guilty mistakes are erased, and the sinful intellect is cleansed</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 96436, member: 35"] [b]Re: Sikh Girls Who Do Not Cut Their Head Hair, But Remove All Other Hair on Their Bod[/b] Singh ji and Bhagat ji, [B][COLOR=DarkRed]ਸਚਹੁ ਓਰੈ ਸਭੁ ਕੋ ਉਪਰਿ ਸਚੁ ਆਚਾਰੁ ॥੫॥ [/COLOR][COLOR=DarkRed] sachahu ourai sabh ko oupar sach aachaar ||5|| [/COLOR][COLOR=DarkRed] Truth is higher than everything; but higher still is truthful living.[/COLOR][/B] Above is the highest of the high. As for Sigmund Freud. No, I do not agree that Freud saw Ego as good. He saw it as neither bad nor good, but as a mental structure that evolves during infancy and into childhood. It is the seat of memory, language and rational thought. It is also responsible for the formation of the self-concept which requires as I said earlier compensatory strategies in order to feel "OK" with itself. These compensations according to Freud can become distorted and lead to mild or severe neurosis - self delusion. In that sense Freud and Nanak might be in agreement -- but this is a ridiculous comparison because Guru Nanak was deeply moved by the social and moral corruption around him and taught that deliverance mukhti comes from union with the creator. Freud on the other hand was seeking a scientific explanation for neurosis. Now that the person of Sigmund Freud has come up in the the context of the Gurus Sahiban, here are two interesting comparisons. Both were deeply interested in the reason for human suffering. Both were deeply committed to the "moral" dimension of human development. Sigmund Freud said this about suffering: “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.” For Freud, the best that we could hope for was to learn to tolerate our suffering with grace. That was the purpose of psychoanalysis -- to learn how to suffer without losing our dignity. And what did Gurus Sahiban have to say about suffering? It comes from, [COLOR=DarkOliveGreen]ਜਗਿ ਹਉਮੈ ਮੈਲੁ ਦੁਖੁ ਪਾਇਆ ਮਲੁ ਲਾਗੀ ਦੂਜੈ ਭਾਇ ॥ [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkOliveGreen] jag houmai mail dhukh paaeiaa mal laagee dhoojai bhaae || [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkOliveGreen] The world is polluted with the filth of egotism, suffering in pain. This filth sticks to them because of their love of duality.[/COLOR] And it is released by union with the Divine Essence of the Naam, the identity of the Sat [COLOR=DarkOliveGreen]ਵਿਜੋਗਿ ਮਿਲਿ ਵਿਛੁੜਿਆ ਸੰਜੋਗੀ ਮੇਲੁ ॥੨॥ [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkOliveGreen] vijog mil vishhurriaa sanjogee mael ||2|| [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkOliveGreen] The separated ones meet, and by great good fortune, those suffering in separation are reunited once again. ||2||[/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkGreen][COLOR=Black]It is curious that the loss of the objects of our love is the first cause of suffering for Freud. And Guru Nanak teaches us that when we cling in attachment to people -- what happens? [B]We suffer[/B].[/COLOR] [/COLOR][COLOR=Blue]ਮਾਤ ਪਿਤਾ ਬਨਿਤਾ ਸੁਤ ਬੰਧਪ ਇਸਟ ਮੀਤ ਅਰੁ ਭਾਈ ॥ਪੂਰਬ ਜਨਮ ਕੇ ਮਿਲੇ ਸੰਜੋਗੀ ਅੰਤਹਿ ਕੋ ਨ ਸਹਾਈ ॥੧॥ [/COLOR][COLOR=Blue]maath pithaa banithaa suth bandhhap eisatt meeth ar bhaaee || poorab janam kae milae sanjogee anthehi ko n sehaaee ||1|| [/COLOR][COLOR=Blue]Mother, father, spouse, children, relatives, lovers, friends and siblings meet, having been associated in previous lives; but none of them will be your companion and support in the end.[/COLOR] Sigmund Freud had this to say about morality and the ego: through our collisions with other people, and in particular with our parents, our superego emerges from the ego. The superego becomes our internal parent, our conscience. It role is to keep our passions and our self-centered egos under control. The superego was to him both necessary and a positive development. Without a superego a person is a sociopath, without a sense of guilt, remorse or compassion. And for Gurus Sahiban, guilt is an act of ignorance (deeds committed in the darkness that is cast on us in our ignorance of the True Guru). [COLOR=DarkOliveGreen]ਜਿਹਿ ਪਰਲੋਕ ਜਾਇ ਅਪਕੀਰਤਿ ਸੋਈ ਅਬਿਦਿਆ ਸਾਧੀ ॥੨॥ [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkOliveGreen] jihi paralok jaae apakeerath soee abidhiaa saadhhee ||2|| [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkOliveGreen] But when you go to the world beyond, your guilt will be well known, by the acts of ignorance which you committed. ||2||[/COLOR] (Sant Paramanand) And the cure is [COLOR=DarkGreen]ਸਤਿਗੁਰਿ ਸੇਵਿਐ ਦੂਜੀ ਦੁਰਮਤਿ ਜਾਈ ॥ sathigur saeviai dhoojee dhuramath jaaee || Serving the True Guru, duality and evil-mindedness are taken away. [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkGreen] ਅਉਗਣ ਕਾਟਿ ਪਾਪਾ ਮਤਿ ਖਾਈ ॥ aougan kaatt paapaa math khaaee || [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkGreen]Guilty mistakes are erased, and the sinful intellect is cleansed. [COLOR=Black] [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=DarkGreen][COLOR=Black]So Freud and the Gurus would have made good conversation on the subjects of suffering and morality. But can you see that, although they are concerned with the same things, their understanding is completely different? One last thought: in both psychoanalyis and Gurbani, it is always the mind that has to be cleansed. [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=DarkGreen]ਅਉਗਣ ਕਾਟਿ ਪਾਪਾ ਮਤਿ ਖਾਈ ॥ [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkGreen] aougan kaatt paapaa math khaaee || [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkGreen] Guilty mistakes are erased, and the sinful intellect is cleansed[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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