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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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<blockquote data-quote="Seeker2013" data-source="post: 210781" data-attributes="member: 19755"><p>I hope so . </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I was never doubtful that the love SGGS talks of is not the love of flesh or even between that of a husband and wife or any worldly relation for that matter ! </p><p>SGGS talks in metaphors and analogies. It talks of pain of separation of soul and god as is the pain that bride endures when her husband is away.</p><p>And it makes sense. How would you explain color to a person born blind. </p><p>How would you explain relationship with god to a person who never experienced it or perhaps we don't remember experiencing it . Hence the analogies of worldly relations .</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You sure , is it so ??</p><p>I don't wanna hurt you, but there are people out there whose marriages apparently have worked out. I see these happy heterosexual couples everywhere around me , holding hands , sitting together close in front of the lake-side promenades at evening time. </p><p>I don't have the fortune to experience it because life has handed me queer cards , sometimes I feel sad about it , sometimes I feel cry and slip into depression, but I sometimes wonder if its a blessing in disguise .</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>obviously they have a different point of view . I don't understand how someone can be so spiritual as to observe all the 5 Ks with sincerity and giving up on all the delicacies of life despite being able to afford it . How someone can be so detached amidst all the pain and pleasure . How someone can sit so calm and serene on a burning hot plate, I don't understand but doesn't mean it doesn't exist for real. </p><p></p><p>I have seen people who seem to be in bliss with their worldly posessions . A man who owns an apartment downstairs lended it to a restaurant and just sitting and doing nothing, he's earning 2 lakhs per month ! he seems to be in bliss, smiling all the time. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Are you calling me free ?</p><p>lol I am anything but free ! Not being married is not being free ! </p><p>I would love to get married , have a kid, raise them and do all these by being unattached to it all , this would be my ideal life , but life has thrown lemons at me. </p><p>I can't get married even if I wanted to , the govt doesnt want me to have me a baby via surrogacy . What you called zombie life would have been my ideal life if you just added spirituality to the mix , but I guess I am destined to live a life of even more solitude and loneliness , one day when my mom dad have also passed , and there won't be anyone to call me 'beta' in a softvoice over the phone or hug me in her lap, I wonder what will happen to me that day. </p><p>It is times like these that me wonder and question my life. Perhaps being a charitable person all my life and earning for others is my only option. Perhaps again a blessing in disguise ?!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I am not envious of them. They have earned it ! Perhaps I didn't ! </p><p></p><p>Guru Nanak said "Jeti sirth upaee vekha, vin karma ke mile layi" (So grand is the creation with all its riches , but yet if one has not earned by their previous good karmas, what is one to obtain from the universe despite it being filled with riches ?)</p><p></p><p>Even the spoilt brat kid of a billionaire has earned it ! otherwise why was he not born to a road side beggar ! </p><p></p><p>But the truth is a $100 note is not always going to be with you. When they're done expending their karmas , they will be back to the cycle of birth and death. They might be in bliss, but their bliss is not forever . See how much I can speak, and yet there's this "duality" in me , the constant "tug-of-war" between the 2 personalities inside me , its exhausting to me ! </p><p>One personality invites me to the spiritual side . He says something along the line of "Take amrit, wear the 5 Ks, surrender youself to the guru . He will resolve your affairs. Have faith in him. Live a noble saintly life. So that you never have to come in this world of duality again. See how tough this single life is , imagine having to come again and again. Its sheer madness"</p><p>Then the wannabe dude speaks up : "What the other fella said is ok ! but you can do it after you're 30 or 35 something ! right now ,get a damn haircut, go to gym , sleep with a lot of dudes , party , hang around and one day we can come to the guru. We will , ok , thats a promise dude !"</p><p></p><p>I am literally beginning to witness this tug-of-war since a while now. Scary part is I kind of agree with the latter guy but deeply speaking, I like what the former guy says, although it will take a leap of faith to go his way.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Some wise man said "The mind feels incomplete, void; It wants something. it longs for something but its confused. It doesn't know ! so it thinks worldly things of outside can satisfy it, but soon after you get the possession, the thing of outside slowly reveals its true nature of its inability to satisfy you. "</p><p></p><p>Funnily and sadly enough, the mind when told to go the way of saints and bhagats, of living a spiritual life doesn't like the idea ! </p><p></p><p>As Giani maskeen ji said "Jo gurudware nai aaunde, oh teh parmatma nu nai maan-de, </p><p>par jo aa rahe ne, oh vi nai maan-de"</p><p></p><p>Its so hard to be a believer (mannan-waala) , thats why guru nanak said in Jap ji </p><p>"man-ne ki gatt kahi na jaae"</p><p>(its so hard to be 'man-ne' , to believe all what the guru says.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Seeker2013, post: 210781, member: 19755"] I hope so . I was never doubtful that the love SGGS talks of is not the love of flesh or even between that of a husband and wife or any worldly relation for that matter ! SGGS talks in metaphors and analogies. It talks of pain of separation of soul and god as is the pain that bride endures when her husband is away. And it makes sense. How would you explain color to a person born blind. How would you explain relationship with god to a person who never experienced it or perhaps we don't remember experiencing it . Hence the analogies of worldly relations . You sure , is it so ?? I don't wanna hurt you, but there are people out there whose marriages apparently have worked out. I see these happy heterosexual couples everywhere around me , holding hands , sitting together close in front of the lake-side promenades at evening time. I don't have the fortune to experience it because life has handed me queer cards , sometimes I feel sad about it , sometimes I feel cry and slip into depression, but I sometimes wonder if its a blessing in disguise . obviously they have a different point of view . I don't understand how someone can be so spiritual as to observe all the 5 Ks with sincerity and giving up on all the delicacies of life despite being able to afford it . How someone can be so detached amidst all the pain and pleasure . How someone can sit so calm and serene on a burning hot plate, I don't understand but doesn't mean it doesn't exist for real. I have seen people who seem to be in bliss with their worldly posessions . A man who owns an apartment downstairs lended it to a restaurant and just sitting and doing nothing, he's earning 2 lakhs per month ! he seems to be in bliss, smiling all the time. Are you calling me free ? lol I am anything but free ! Not being married is not being free ! I would love to get married , have a kid, raise them and do all these by being unattached to it all , this would be my ideal life , but life has thrown lemons at me. I can't get married even if I wanted to , the govt doesnt want me to have me a baby via surrogacy . What you called zombie life would have been my ideal life if you just added spirituality to the mix , but I guess I am destined to live a life of even more solitude and loneliness , one day when my mom dad have also passed , and there won't be anyone to call me 'beta' in a softvoice over the phone or hug me in her lap, I wonder what will happen to me that day. It is times like these that me wonder and question my life. Perhaps being a charitable person all my life and earning for others is my only option. Perhaps again a blessing in disguise ?! I am not envious of them. They have earned it ! Perhaps I didn't ! Guru Nanak said "Jeti sirth upaee vekha, vin karma ke mile layi" (So grand is the creation with all its riches , but yet if one has not earned by their previous good karmas, what is one to obtain from the universe despite it being filled with riches ?) Even the spoilt brat kid of a billionaire has earned it ! otherwise why was he not born to a road side beggar ! But the truth is a $100 note is not always going to be with you. When they're done expending their karmas , they will be back to the cycle of birth and death. They might be in bliss, but their bliss is not forever . See how much I can speak, and yet there's this "duality" in me , the constant "tug-of-war" between the 2 personalities inside me , its exhausting to me ! One personality invites me to the spiritual side . He says something along the line of "Take amrit, wear the 5 Ks, surrender youself to the guru . He will resolve your affairs. Have faith in him. Live a noble saintly life. So that you never have to come in this world of duality again. See how tough this single life is , imagine having to come again and again. Its sheer madness" Then the wannabe dude speaks up : "What the other fella said is ok ! but you can do it after you're 30 or 35 something ! right now ,get a damn haircut, go to gym , sleep with a lot of dudes , party , hang around and one day we can come to the guru. We will , ok , thats a promise dude !" I am literally beginning to witness this tug-of-war since a while now. Scary part is I kind of agree with the latter guy but deeply speaking, I like what the former guy says, although it will take a leap of faith to go his way. Some wise man said "The mind feels incomplete, void; It wants something. it longs for something but its confused. It doesn't know ! so it thinks worldly things of outside can satisfy it, but soon after you get the possession, the thing of outside slowly reveals its true nature of its inability to satisfy you. " Funnily and sadly enough, the mind when told to go the way of saints and bhagats, of living a spiritual life doesn't like the idea ! As Giani maskeen ji said "Jo gurudware nai aaunde, oh teh parmatma nu nai maan-de, par jo aa rahe ne, oh vi nai maan-de" Its so hard to be a believer (mannan-waala) , thats why guru nanak said in Jap ji "man-ne ki gatt kahi na jaae" (its so hard to be 'man-ne' , to believe all what the guru says.) [/QUOTE]
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