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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="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 125491" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: navy">source:</span> <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Toronto+Sikh+celebration+without+incident+despite+recent+tensions/2950348/story.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: navy">http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Toronto+Sikh+celebration+without+incident+despite+recent+tensions/2950348/story.html</span></span></a></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">Toronto Sikh celebration without</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">incident despite recent tensions</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">By Joseph Brean, National Post with files from Global News - April 25, 2010 10:02 PM </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy"><img src="http://www.montrealgazette.com/2950350.bin" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: red"><em>A large group of people crowd around a statue Statue of King Edward VII moved from Delhi, India in 1969, at Queens Park on a rainy day during the parade portion of the 25th annual Sikh Khalsa Day Celebration in Toronto, Ontario, April 25, 2010.</em></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><em><span style="color: red"><strong>Photograph by: </strong>Tyler Anderson, National Post</span></em></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy"><strong>TORONTO —</strong> There was good reason to expect controversy at Khalsa Day, Toronto’s celebration of the 311th anniversary of the founding of the Sikh religion. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Among the 80,000 attendees, there were rival factions from the ideological disputes that have divided Toronto-area temples, leading to street brawls among armed men and the stabbing of a prominent lawyer. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Balraj Deol, editor of the Khabarnama Punjabi weekly newspaper, wrote an open letter to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty urging that he stay away, and saying that some Canadian Sikh leaders “have managed to bluff our political elite for the past 2 1/2 decades.” </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">“Slowly they are making us accept ‘fundamentalist and militancy’ as real Sikh religion,” he wrote. “Young Sikhs are being indoctrinated and implanted in the political system.” </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">And there were several prominent mentions of the controversial Khalistan movement for a Sikh homeland in India, which a Khalsa Day organizer explicitly endorsed to the crowd at Queen’s Park. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">In British Columbia, Premier Gordon Campbell boycotted a similar event after organizers made veiled threats about the safety of Ujjal Dosanjh, a Liberal MP and Canada’s most high-profile Sikh politician, who was also threatened as a “traitor” on a Facebook page. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">But in the end, the traditional harvest festival of Vaisakhi went off without a hitch, except for the cold and rainy weather, and attracted nothing more offensive than the traditional platitudes of stumping politicians, from Toronto mayoral candidates to the leader of the federal Liberal party. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">“Ontario needs the Sikh community to be united, because that’s what makes for a strong Ontario,” McGuinty said. “Our diversity defines us, but it never, ever divides us.” </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff looked out at the hundreds of turbaned men on the slope leading up to the equestrian statue of King Edward VII and said it was a “wonderful sight.” </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">A petition being circulated Sunday urged the government of Canada to recognize that “an organized campaign of violence, rapes and killings took place in India in November of 1984,” and that this was a genocide under international law. It also called for India to prosecute the perpetrators. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">In October 1984, Indian prime minister Indira Ghandi was assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards, in revenge for the military assault that summer on the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhism’s holiest place. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">The resulting riots led to the deaths of thousands of Sikhs and the emigration of many others to countries such as Canada. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">This particular issue came to a boil recently in the case of Kamal Nath, the current Indian minister of road transport and highways, who was investigated but not convicted by a government commission looking into the 1984 violence, and who last month met privately in Toronto with McGuinty on trade, sparking protests. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">The thousands of participants Sunday sought to put differences aside and convey a message of peace and compassion after days of tensions amid the Sikh community. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">“Today we are above everything,” said Gobinder Singh Randhawa of the Ontario Sikh & Gurdwara Council. “I think this is the most important event today.” </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">National Post with files from Global News </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: navy">jbrean@nationalpost.com </span><span style="color: navy">© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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