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Gurbani (14-53)
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Pahre (74-78)
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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)
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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)
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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)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
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Gurbani (1352-53)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 163391" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Sikh founder's egalitarian vision seconded by patriarchy: prof</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">Despite 'machismo' beliefs and practices like sex selection, feminist scholar thinks Sikh men ready to welcome women into religious leadership</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun - April 9, 2012</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThA7Kv0V9z45OrfS0cEu0G0ZCKCAyUiVUhhj-eL4zvnABZ9EXupw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"Guru Nanak is to me a feminist," says Sikh scholar Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">That's why the Punjabi professor can't accept how her religion has become so patriarchal; filled with "machismo" and a "warrior" mentality that often contradicts its original teachings.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak (1469 - 1539), was a truly "egalitarian," "inclusive" man and a champion of women's rights, Kaur Singh said this week before giving a lecture at the Asian Centre at the University of British Columbia.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The author of a dozen books, including the just-released Of Sacred and Secular Desire: An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab (I.B. Tauris), laments how virtually all sacred duties within the 23-million-member religion continue to be performed by men.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Such patriarchy defies Sikh-ism's liberationist core, said Kaur Singh, including its teaching against any official priesthood. So why are the Sikh scriptures always publicly recited by men?</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Kaur Singh said she was treated respectfully when inter-viewed by Punjabi-language broadcasters this week in Surrey, which has one of the largest Sikh diaspora communities in the world.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">And even though Kaur Singh maintained a cheerful demeanour during our conversation, she was disturbed by the way female fetuses are systematically aborted in the Punjab, the region of northern India where Sikhs predominate.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"The obsession with sons is so great in northern India that modern technology is abused by Sikh families to promote abortion if the fetus is female," Kaur Singh wrote in her book, The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Independent government agencies report the presence of only eight women for every 10 men in the Punjab. One respected anti-poverty group, ActionAid, claimed only three females per 10 males.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Some observers blame widespread "female feticide" on Indian customs that frequently require poor parents of brides to give dowries to prospective husbands, making it a grave financial liability to have girls.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Kaur Singh, in addition, argues that centuries-old Punjabi "feudal" values have illegitimately penetrated the otherwise gender-egalitarian Sikh faith, including to some extent in Metro Vancouver (home to roughly half of Canada's 350,000 Sikhs).</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"It's very, very troubling to me," said Kaur Singh, who moved from India to the U.S. in her late teens and has taught at Colby College in Maine for more than two decades. She returns at least once a year to the Punjab.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In contrast to Sikhism's cur-rent patriarchal practices, Kaur Singh emphasizes how founder Guru Nanak opposed the caste system, as well as the ancient Indian custom of cremating wives while they were alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands, and the need for women to wear veils.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Influenced by Western feminist theologians such as Rosemary Ruether and Rita Gross, Kaur Singh takes it in stride that it is now common for women to serve as clergy in many North American main-stream Protestant and Jewish denominations.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In a small act of protest in the name of feminine Sikh power, Kaur Singh makes a point of wearing the traditional five articles of the Sikh faith, which include bracelet, simple under-wear, unshorn hair, small comb and ceremonial sword (she wears a tiny version of the latter on a necklace).</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The symbols are mostly associated with males, she says, but maintains the founders of Sikhism wanted both men and women to wear them.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">As a specialist in Punjabi and Hindi languages, Kaur Singh is also convinced that Sikhism's sacred scriptures, the Guru Granth Sahib, have often been mistranslated to fit a subconscious patriarchal agenda.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The God of Sikhism is not meant to be reduced to one sex, she says, but to be under-stood to contain feminine and masculine qualities. It is most accurate, she said, to refer to God in Sikh scriptures as the all-inclusive number 1.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Yet, in much the same way that feminist Christian and Jewish scholars have complained about traditional Bible translations of the word God, Kaur Singh says the Guru Granth Sahib is repeatedly mistranslated to refer to God as "He" and as "Lord."</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Despite her trust that Sikh-ism's foundational teachings are tilted toward freedom and sexual equality, Kaur Singh has long worried most Sikhs today are not listening to calls for reducing patriarchy.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">So Kaur Singh was inspired by a major event last year at the University of Toronto, called Sikhi. Many young Sikh men and women gathered to speak of freedom of expression and equal rights for women within the faith.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"That was a big moment for me. There is a lot of energy in young diaspora Sikhs. I'm a scholar and a Sikh and I need transformation of my own society. I'm going back to my roots," she said.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Kaur Singh is convinced, if more Sikh women ask for it, Sikh men will welcome them taking a more prominent role in the religion.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"They are our brothers, fathers and husbands. And they respect us and love us as much as we love and respect them," she said.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"They will change, because the Sikh tradition is a system of love, not a system of fear."</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><a href="mailto:dtodd@{censored}">dtodd@{censored}</a> Blog: {censored}/thesearch Twitter.com/douglastodd</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source: </strong><a href="http://www.{censored}/life/Sikh+founder+egalitarian+vision+seconded+patriarchy+prof/6429590/story.html" target="_blank">http://www.{censored}/life/Sikh+founder+egalitarian+vision+seconded+patriarchy+prof/6429590/story.html</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 163391, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"][B][SIZE="5"]Sikh founder's egalitarian vision seconded by patriarchy: prof[/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE="3"] Despite 'machismo' beliefs and practices like sex selection, feminist scholar thinks Sikh men ready to welcome women into religious leadership[/SIZE][/B] By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun - April 9, 2012 [IMG]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThA7Kv0V9z45OrfS0cEu0G0ZCKCAyUiVUhhj-eL4zvnABZ9EXupw[/IMG] "Guru Nanak is to me a feminist," says Sikh scholar Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh. That's why the Punjabi professor can't accept how her religion has become so patriarchal; filled with "machismo" and a "warrior" mentality that often contradicts its original teachings. The founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak (1469 - 1539), was a truly "egalitarian," "inclusive" man and a champion of women's rights, Kaur Singh said this week before giving a lecture at the Asian Centre at the University of British Columbia. The author of a dozen books, including the just-released Of Sacred and Secular Desire: An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab (I.B. Tauris), laments how virtually all sacred duties within the 23-million-member religion continue to be performed by men. Such patriarchy defies Sikh-ism's liberationist core, said Kaur Singh, including its teaching against any official priesthood. So why are the Sikh scriptures always publicly recited by men? Kaur Singh said she was treated respectfully when inter-viewed by Punjabi-language broadcasters this week in Surrey, which has one of the largest Sikh diaspora communities in the world. And even though Kaur Singh maintained a cheerful demeanour during our conversation, she was disturbed by the way female fetuses are systematically aborted in the Punjab, the region of northern India where Sikhs predominate. "The obsession with sons is so great in northern India that modern technology is abused by Sikh families to promote abortion if the fetus is female," Kaur Singh wrote in her book, The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent. Independent government agencies report the presence of only eight women for every 10 men in the Punjab. One respected anti-poverty group, ActionAid, claimed only three females per 10 males. Some observers blame widespread "female feticide" on Indian customs that frequently require poor parents of brides to give dowries to prospective husbands, making it a grave financial liability to have girls. Kaur Singh, in addition, argues that centuries-old Punjabi "feudal" values have illegitimately penetrated the otherwise gender-egalitarian Sikh faith, including to some extent in Metro Vancouver (home to roughly half of Canada's 350,000 Sikhs). "It's very, very troubling to me," said Kaur Singh, who moved from India to the U.S. in her late teens and has taught at Colby College in Maine for more than two decades. She returns at least once a year to the Punjab. In contrast to Sikhism's cur-rent patriarchal practices, Kaur Singh emphasizes how founder Guru Nanak opposed the caste system, as well as the ancient Indian custom of cremating wives while they were alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands, and the need for women to wear veils. Influenced by Western feminist theologians such as Rosemary Ruether and Rita Gross, Kaur Singh takes it in stride that it is now common for women to serve as clergy in many North American main-stream Protestant and Jewish denominations. In a small act of protest in the name of feminine Sikh power, Kaur Singh makes a point of wearing the traditional five articles of the Sikh faith, which include bracelet, simple under-wear, unshorn hair, small comb and ceremonial sword (she wears a tiny version of the latter on a necklace). The symbols are mostly associated with males, she says, but maintains the founders of Sikhism wanted both men and women to wear them. As a specialist in Punjabi and Hindi languages, Kaur Singh is also convinced that Sikhism's sacred scriptures, the Guru Granth Sahib, have often been mistranslated to fit a subconscious patriarchal agenda. The God of Sikhism is not meant to be reduced to one sex, she says, but to be under-stood to contain feminine and masculine qualities. It is most accurate, she said, to refer to God in Sikh scriptures as the all-inclusive number 1. Yet, in much the same way that feminist Christian and Jewish scholars have complained about traditional Bible translations of the word God, Kaur Singh says the Guru Granth Sahib is repeatedly mistranslated to refer to God as "He" and as "Lord." Despite her trust that Sikh-ism's foundational teachings are tilted toward freedom and sexual equality, Kaur Singh has long worried most Sikhs today are not listening to calls for reducing patriarchy. So Kaur Singh was inspired by a major event last year at the University of Toronto, called Sikhi. Many young Sikh men and women gathered to speak of freedom of expression and equal rights for women within the faith. "That was a big moment for me. There is a lot of energy in young diaspora Sikhs. I'm a scholar and a Sikh and I need transformation of my own society. I'm going back to my roots," she said. Kaur Singh is convinced, if more Sikh women ask for it, Sikh men will welcome them taking a more prominent role in the religion. "They are our brothers, fathers and husbands. And they respect us and love us as much as we love and respect them," she said. "They will change, because the Sikh tradition is a system of love, not a system of fear." [email]dtodd@{censored}[/email] Blog: {censored}/thesearch Twitter.com/douglastodd © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun [B] source: [/B][url]http://www.{censored}/life/Sikh+founder+egalitarian+vision+seconded+patriarchy+prof/6429590/story.html[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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