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ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
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ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
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Ashtpadi (129-130)
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Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
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Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
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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)
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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)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
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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)
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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="NamHariKaur" data-source="post: 12654" data-attributes="member: 1453"><p><span style="color: magenta">Sat Nam; Jogindar Singh Kaur Ji;</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">I have taken the liberty of highlighting and underlining the portions of your post which move me to respond.</span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: magenta">For several reasons I feel a kinship with you after reading your story. My own experience of the Guru also involves wonderful tears - blissful tears and healing tears and tears of compassion for those I see in physical pain or who suffer deeply in other ways, and tears of relief at having been brought to the Guru's feet after struggling with many issues in my own life for 55 years. (I came to the Guru in April of 2004 - 15 months ago). I was told by one of our long-term Sanghat members that the SGGS is sometimes called the greatest psychiatrist in the world. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">For me also, experiencing the power of Gurbani and the Naad convinced me that God was not the impersonal non-intervening Force/Causer that I had thought he/she to be, but in fact very present at all times in our lives.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">As you have stated - many of my intense experiences occur during meditation. I attend the hour of kirtan from 5am to 6am often and chant along for 10 or 15 minutes and then dissolve into a deep quiet meditation for the rest of the hour. (This is largely a 3HO community so we have a daily sadhana from 4am to 6:30am). </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">Your feeling of "Union with God" mirrors my own experience of having surrendered my life to God's Will during an intense experience at home while playing Gurbani chanting and doing the salutation to the sun - hatha yoga. It was the 28th pauri of JaapJi that was being sung/chanted and many months later I found this statement about that pauri by Yogi Bhajan: "the 28th pauri of JaapJi is the most powerful combination and permutation of words in the world. It unites you with God." When I read that, goose bumps covered my entire body. </span><span style="color: #ff00ff">Ironically it was when I did a search two months ago for the 28th pauri that I was brought to this forum - where someone had just posted their own interpretation of that pauri. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">For the 15 months of my own journey into Sikhism I have found very few people who speak as you do about their experiences -all the tears and intensity of healing / transforming. That is what most makes me feel a kinship with you and awakens a desire to connect with you.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">Your "unusual singh kaur" name. Surely you are aware of the Sikh chanting recording artist named Singh Kaur - a 3HO Sikh that passed away in about 1998? She was perhaps the first 3HO sikh to record many chants. Her most famous early works are collected on a CD recently digitally remastered and titled "Peace Lagoon." It can be found at <a href="http://www.a-healingways.com" target="_blank">www.a-healingways.com</a> and probably also at <a href="http://www.spiritvoyage.com" target="_blank">www.spiritvoyage.com</a>. As it happens one of the chants on that CD is of the very first Hukham that I ever heard - commonly called "Crimson" which begins with "My eyes are wet with the nectar of the Lord." Another of my favorites begins "I would make myself a slave, to the one that can take me to meet my true Guru." In my case, it was Snatam Kaur that showed me the way to the Guru's Feet, and I have forever offered my services to her should she ever have need of my gifts. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">You might like that CD. I think you can listen to clips of some parts of it at the sites above. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">The other thing you mentioned about your name is dear to me also. Due to circumstances of my early life, and a lot of struggling in this life due to events during that time, I can fully relate to your statement about needing to integrate your feminine and masculine aspects of your nature. I respect and honor your courageous choices to be open about so much of yourself. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">Finally, I have seen your wonderful posts on homosexuality in another area at SPN. That is where I first took note of you. You posted with eloquence and with courage, and I was very impressed and have wanted to contact you since that time. I have two gay women Sikh friends and am bisexual myself, with a strong preference for other women. None of us have been entirely "open" with Sanghat members at large about our sexuality although I have spoken of it to my closest Sikh friend. While she reacted negatively at first, our own friendship has been so healing for both of us that I think she has no longer has any judgements about me. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">I am thinking that the time is soon coming for at least the 3HO Sikh community to acknowledge and accept homosexuality and bisexuality as just other ways of being spiritual beings having human experiences. </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">As we come out within our sanghat's we may need a support group. That is the another big reason that I am posting here in reply to your story. I hope that we might become acquainted and that I can learn more about your own experiences and journey - especially as they relate to the acceptance / rejection of your sexuality within a Sikh community. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">I was going to post much of the above content to you in a private message, but have decided that nothing I have said needs to be kept from others, and that it might in fact continue to build in others, the spirit that is needed to bring about the acknowledgement and acceptance of being gay or bisexual - or any other human permutation of qualities or physical states of being. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">Thank you for posting your story. It moved me deeply and made me feel again more at home in my own new life. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00ff">Nam Hari Kaur, Eugene, Oregon</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NamHariKaur, post: 12654, member: 1453"] [COLOR=magenta]Sat Nam; Jogindar Singh Kaur Ji;[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]I have taken the liberty of highlighting and underlining the portions of your post which move me to respond.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=magenta]For several reasons I feel a kinship with you after reading your story. My own experience of the Guru also involves wonderful tears - blissful tears and healing tears and tears of compassion for those I see in physical pain or who suffer deeply in other ways, and tears of relief at having been brought to the Guru's feet after struggling with many issues in my own life for 55 years. (I came to the Guru in April of 2004 - 15 months ago). I was told by one of our long-term Sanghat members that the SGGS is sometimes called the greatest psychiatrist in the world. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]For me also, experiencing the power of Gurbani and the Naad convinced me that God was not the impersonal non-intervening Force/Causer that I had thought he/she to be, but in fact very present at all times in our lives.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]As you have stated - many of my intense experiences occur during meditation. I attend the hour of kirtan from 5am to 6am often and chant along for 10 or 15 minutes and then dissolve into a deep quiet meditation for the rest of the hour. (This is largely a 3HO community so we have a daily sadhana from 4am to 6:30am). [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]Your feeling of "Union with God" mirrors my own experience of having surrendered my life to God's Will during an intense experience at home while playing Gurbani chanting and doing the salutation to the sun - hatha yoga. It was the 28th pauri of JaapJi that was being sung/chanted and many months later I found this statement about that pauri by Yogi Bhajan: "the 28th pauri of JaapJi is the most powerful combination and permutation of words in the world. It unites you with God." When I read that, goose bumps covered my entire body. [/COLOR][COLOR=#ff00ff]Ironically it was when I did a search two months ago for the 28th pauri that I was brought to this forum - where someone had just posted their own interpretation of that pauri. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]For the 15 months of my own journey into Sikhism I have found very few people who speak as you do about their experiences -all the tears and intensity of healing / transforming. That is what most makes me feel a kinship with you and awakens a desire to connect with you.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]Your "unusual singh kaur" name. Surely you are aware of the Sikh chanting recording artist named Singh Kaur - a 3HO Sikh that passed away in about 1998? She was perhaps the first 3HO sikh to record many chants. Her most famous early works are collected on a CD recently digitally remastered and titled "Peace Lagoon." It can be found at [URL="http://www.a-healingways.com"]www.a-healingways.com[/URL] and probably also at [URL="http://www.spiritvoyage.com"]www.spiritvoyage.com[/URL]. As it happens one of the chants on that CD is of the very first Hukham that I ever heard - commonly called "Crimson" which begins with "My eyes are wet with the nectar of the Lord." Another of my favorites begins "I would make myself a slave, to the one that can take me to meet my true Guru." In my case, it was Snatam Kaur that showed me the way to the Guru's Feet, and I have forever offered my services to her should she ever have need of my gifts. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]You might like that CD. I think you can listen to clips of some parts of it at the sites above. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]The other thing you mentioned about your name is dear to me also. Due to circumstances of my early life, and a lot of struggling in this life due to events during that time, I can fully relate to your statement about needing to integrate your feminine and masculine aspects of your nature. I respect and honor your courageous choices to be open about so much of yourself. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]Finally, I have seen your wonderful posts on homosexuality in another area at SPN. That is where I first took note of you. You posted with eloquence and with courage, and I was very impressed and have wanted to contact you since that time. I have two gay women Sikh friends and am bisexual myself, with a strong preference for other women. None of us have been entirely "open" with Sanghat members at large about our sexuality although I have spoken of it to my closest Sikh friend. While she reacted negatively at first, our own friendship has been so healing for both of us that I think she has no longer has any judgements about me. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]I am thinking that the time is soon coming for at least the 3HO Sikh community to acknowledge and accept homosexuality and bisexuality as just other ways of being spiritual beings having human experiences. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]As we come out within our sanghat's we may need a support group. That is the another big reason that I am posting here in reply to your story. I hope that we might become acquainted and that I can learn more about your own experiences and journey - especially as they relate to the acceptance / rejection of your sexuality within a Sikh community. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]I was going to post much of the above content to you in a private message, but have decided that nothing I have said needs to be kept from others, and that it might in fact continue to build in others, the spirit that is needed to bring about the acknowledgement and acceptance of being gay or bisexual - or any other human permutation of qualities or physical states of being. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]Thank you for posting your story. It moved me deeply and made me feel again more at home in my own new life. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff00ff]Nam Hari Kaur, Eugene, Oregon[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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