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Gurbani (696-703)
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Gurbani (795-831)
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Chhant (843-848)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
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Gurbani (889-1008)
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Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
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Gurbani (1118-1123)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
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Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
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Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
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Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_member15" data-source="post: 165265" data-attributes="member: 17438"><p>I was reading the <em>Complete Mystical Works </em>of Meister Echart this morning, in addition to the <em>Cherubinic Wanderer </em>by Angelus Silesius, the Messenger of the Heart, when I found passages in both that I thought might be pertinent to this thread and so I have decided to share them: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"...Joy and sorrow both come from love. A man should not fear God, for he who fears Him, flees Him. Such a fear is harmful fear. The right sort of fear is the fear of <em>losing </em>God. Man should not fear Him, he should love Him, for God loves man to the highest perfection...The earth can never flee so low but heaven flows into her and impresses his power on her and fructifies her, whether she wishes it or not. It is just the same with man: he thinks he can get away from God, but he cannot escape Him, for every nook and cranny reveals Him. He thinks he is fleeing from God, and runs into his arms...That man who is thus established in God's love must be dead to self...I ask, 'What is the prayer of a detached heart?' My answer is that detachment and purity cannot pray, for whoever prays wants God to grant him something, or else wants God to take something from him. But a detached heart desires nothing at all, nor has it anything it wants to get rid of. Therefore it is free of all prayers, or its prayer consists of nothing but being uniform with God. That is all its prayer...Those who pray for anything but God or to do with God, pray wrongly: when I pray for nothing, then I pray rightly, and that prayer is proper and powerful. But if anyone prays for anything else, he is praying to a false God...I never pray so well as when I pray for nothing and for nobody, not for Heinrich or Konrad. Those who pray truly pray to God in truth and spirit, that is to say, in the Holy Spirit..." </span></p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>- <strong>Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), German Catholic mystic and Dominican priest</strong></em></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"...The deepest prayer</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">which I could ever say</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">is that which makes me One</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">with That to which I pray. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">God is such as He is, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">I am as I must be. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">And yet no two-ness</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">do I see. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">There is nothing</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">that disturbs your meditation</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">but your own wandering mind</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">in its vain agitation. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Give me all Your bounty, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">give me eternal bliss - </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">as long as You withhold yourself </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">all things I miss. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">So far beyond all words. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">is He, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">I know no other way </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">than not to speak. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Thus without words </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">I pray. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">In the depth of his Abyss </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">God is pure contemplation. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The deepest ground </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">of all that is </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">dwells in perpetual adoration. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">We keep so busy talking, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">we are so keen to act </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">that we forget </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">that in the heart </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">lies all we need</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">untapped, intact. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">He who turns the senses </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">to the Light that is his center</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">hears what no ear can hear, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">sees where no light can enter. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Prayer is neither word nor gesture, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">chant nor sound. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">It is to be in still communication </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">with our Ground..." </span></p><p></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">- Angelus Silesius (1624 – 1677), German Catholic mystic and poet </span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
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