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Gurbani (489-503)
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Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
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Gurbani (595-634)
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Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
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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)
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Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
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Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
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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)
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Anand (917-922)
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Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
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Gurbani (984-988)
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Gurbani (889-1008)
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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)
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Gurbani (1168-1187)
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Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
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Partaal (1265-1273)
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Gurbani (1294-96)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 188936" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">After Sikh temple attack, former white supremacist, son of victim formed alliance</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>By Dinesh Ramde, The Associated PressAugust 4, 2013 10:56 AM</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"> </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><img src="http://www.*****************/news/cms/binary/8747745.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><span style="color: Red">In this July 31, 2013, photo, Pardeep Kaleka, left, and Arno Michaelis talk at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wis. A year ago a white supremacist shot and killed six temple members, including Kaleka's father, Satwant Singh Kaleka. Michaelis, a former skinhead, reached out to Kaleka after the shooting and since then the pair have formed an unlikely alliance, teaming up to preach a message of peace throughout Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>OAK CREEK, Wis.</strong> - Six weeks after a white supremacist gunned down Pardeep Kaleka's father and five others at a Sikh temple in the U.S. last year, Kaleka was skeptical when a former skinhead reached out and invited him to dinner.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But Kaleka accepted, and he's grateful he did. Since then, the grieving son and repentant racist have formed an unlikely alliance, teaming up to preach a message of peace throughout Milwaukee, the largest city in Midwestern Wisconsin state.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In fact, they've grown so close that they got matching tattoos on their palms — the numbers 8-5-12, the date the gunman opened fire at a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple before killing himself minutes later.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">It wasn't easy for Kaleka to meet Arno Michaelis, a 42-year-old who admits he contributed so heavily to the white-power movement that he might have helped influence the shooter. Kaleka knows Michaelis' history — his lead singing in a white supremacist band, the white-power and swastika tattoos, the countless fights and more than a dozen arrests.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But he also saw the good work Michaelis has done since he quit the racist movement in the mid-1990s. Kaleka, 37, wanted his father's death to be a catalyst for peace, and he saw in Michaelis a partner whose story could reinforce the message that it's possible to turn hate into love.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"We were both hoping ... we could take something tragic and turn it into something positive — a learning experience for the entire community," Kaleka said. "We were both on that same mission, in our different ways."</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Michaelis had written a book called "My Life After Hate," in which he describes how he lashed out at the world starting in kindergarten and how the birth of his daughter made him realize he needed to change. He also works with kids on community service projects.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Kaleka still has lingering fears that Michaelis might relapse and return to his old ways. But as he's gotten to know Michaelis, he says the boulder of doubt has become a pebble.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Michaelis, an information technology consultant, understands the skepticism. He knows he hurt so many people during his seven years in the white-supremacy movement that his sincerity will always be questioned, which is why he works even harder to regain people's trust.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The two men have teamed up to create Serve2Unite, a community group that works to counter violence with peace. Kaleka, Michaelis and others visit middle schools and high schools, where Kaleka describes how gunman Wade Michael Page walked into the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin last year and killed six people he didn't know. Then Michaelis describes how the gunman's white-supremacist background was nearly identical to his own.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Invariably, the children are riveted, Kaleka said. Afterward several will come up and ask how they can get involved.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Kaleka and Michaelis look nothing alike. Kaleka is a clean-cut Indian who teaches high school social studies. Michaelis, who's white, has both arms covered in tattoos that mask earlier racist messages. But as they sat together in the temple recently, just down the hallway from the bedroom where Kaleka's father was shot, they seemed like brothers, insulting each other good-naturedly and arguing over who was more handsome.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">That brotherhood began at their first dinner. Sitting in his car outside the restaurant, Kaleka watched Michaelis walk inside and wondered if he was crazy to be meeting with a former skinhead. Still, he summoned the courage to do it.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Michaelis immediately asked about a bandage on Kaleka's eye, the temporary remnant of a mishap Kaleka suffered while bathing his daughter.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"There was no, 'Hi, how you doing?' He went straight from seeing me to showing concern," Kaleka said. After Kaleka told him what happened, Michaelis admitted that he too was a klutz, and a friendship was born.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Michaelis doesn't shy away from discussing his past. He grew up in an alcoholic, emotionally cold household. He began to rebel as early as kindergarten, bullying other kids on the bus and picking fights on the playground. He eventually got into the white-power movement for the shock value, but the more he associated with haters, the more he began to hate.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But hating was exhausting. He couldn't watch Green Bay Packers games because black and white players were playing together. He couldn't watch TV because Hollywood was a Jewish conspiracy. He loved "Seinfeld" but he had to record it on a videotape labeled "Amber's second birthday party" so his white-power friends wouldn't know he thought a Jew was hilarious.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Eventually, the combination of his daughter's birth and a friend dying in a street fight was the catalyst for him to move on.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">His past never really left him, though. When he heard that the gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple was a white supremacist, he lay awake that night agonizing that the gunman might have been someone he'd recruited into the white-power movement or inspired as the lead singer of the hate band Centurion. It turns out he hadn't known Page but he still felt responsible for his actions.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"We were both white-power skinheads. We were both in white-power bands," Michaelis said. "In just about every sense, I used to be him."</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">That's why his message now is one of peace. He tells kids they're not being tough when they counter aggression with aggression — what takes real strength is walking away. He acknowledges that his younger self would have ignored that message, but he still hopes to make a difference with a new generation.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Connecting with children became so much easier after he and Kaleka teamed up. When kids hear from someone who used to be a violent hater, and then from someone whose father fell victim to that very hatred, the message is sobering.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">"We realized the reason this (temple shooting) happens is that we magnify the differences between people. We don't magnify the similarities," Kaleka said. "So one of our main goals is to magnify those similarities and say, 'Hey, I'm not so different from you. So let's come together in a common cause."</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">___</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><em>Dinesh Ramde can be reached at <a href="mailto:dramde@ap.org">dramde@ap.org</a>.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">© Copyright (c)</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source: </strong><a href="http://www.*****************/news/After+Sikh+temple+attack+victims+exwhite+supremacist+formed/8747841/story.html" target="_blank">http://www.*****************/news/After+Sikh+temple+attack+victims+exwhite+supremacist+formed/8747841/story.html</a></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/after-sikh-temple-attack-victims-son-and-former-white-supremacist-formed-unlikely-alliance/2013/08/04/3e49d8fe-fd19-11e2-8294-0ee5075b840d_story.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/after-sikh-temple-attack-victims-son-and-former-white-supremacist-formed-unlikely-alliance/2013/08/04/3e49d8fe-fd19-11e2-8294-0ee5075b840d_story.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 188936, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"][B][SIZE="5"]After Sikh temple attack, former white supremacist, son of victim formed alliance[/SIZE] By Dinesh Ramde, The Associated PressAugust 4, 2013 10:56 AM[/B] [IMG]http://www.*****************/news/cms/binary/8747745.jpg[/IMG] [COLOR="Red"]In this July 31, 2013, photo, Pardeep Kaleka, left, and Arno Michaelis talk at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wis. A year ago a white supremacist shot and killed six temple members, including Kaleka's father, Satwant Singh Kaleka. Michaelis, a former skinhead, reached out to Kaleka after the shooting and since then the pair have formed an unlikely alliance, teaming up to preach a message of peace throughout Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)[/COLOR] [B]OAK CREEK, Wis.[/B] - Six weeks after a white supremacist gunned down Pardeep Kaleka's father and five others at a Sikh temple in the U.S. last year, Kaleka was skeptical when a former skinhead reached out and invited him to dinner. But Kaleka accepted, and he's grateful he did. Since then, the grieving son and repentant racist have formed an unlikely alliance, teaming up to preach a message of peace throughout Milwaukee, the largest city in Midwestern Wisconsin state. In fact, they've grown so close that they got matching tattoos on their palms — the numbers 8-5-12, the date the gunman opened fire at a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple before killing himself minutes later. It wasn't easy for Kaleka to meet Arno Michaelis, a 42-year-old who admits he contributed so heavily to the white-power movement that he might have helped influence the shooter. Kaleka knows Michaelis' history — his lead singing in a white supremacist band, the white-power and swastika tattoos, the countless fights and more than a dozen arrests. But he also saw the good work Michaelis has done since he quit the racist movement in the mid-1990s. Kaleka, 37, wanted his father's death to be a catalyst for peace, and he saw in Michaelis a partner whose story could reinforce the message that it's possible to turn hate into love. "We were both hoping ... we could take something tragic and turn it into something positive — a learning experience for the entire community," Kaleka said. "We were both on that same mission, in our different ways." Michaelis had written a book called "My Life After Hate," in which he describes how he lashed out at the world starting in kindergarten and how the birth of his daughter made him realize he needed to change. He also works with kids on community service projects. Kaleka still has lingering fears that Michaelis might relapse and return to his old ways. But as he's gotten to know Michaelis, he says the boulder of doubt has become a pebble. Michaelis, an information technology consultant, understands the skepticism. He knows he hurt so many people during his seven years in the white-supremacy movement that his sincerity will always be questioned, which is why he works even harder to regain people's trust. The two men have teamed up to create Serve2Unite, a community group that works to counter violence with peace. Kaleka, Michaelis and others visit middle schools and high schools, where Kaleka describes how gunman Wade Michael Page walked into the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin last year and killed six people he didn't know. Then Michaelis describes how the gunman's white-supremacist background was nearly identical to his own. Invariably, the children are riveted, Kaleka said. Afterward several will come up and ask how they can get involved. Kaleka and Michaelis look nothing alike. Kaleka is a clean-cut Indian who teaches high school social studies. Michaelis, who's white, has both arms covered in tattoos that mask earlier racist messages. But as they sat together in the temple recently, just down the hallway from the bedroom where Kaleka's father was shot, they seemed like brothers, insulting each other good-naturedly and arguing over who was more handsome. That brotherhood began at their first dinner. Sitting in his car outside the restaurant, Kaleka watched Michaelis walk inside and wondered if he was crazy to be meeting with a former skinhead. Still, he summoned the courage to do it. Michaelis immediately asked about a bandage on Kaleka's eye, the temporary remnant of a mishap Kaleka suffered while bathing his daughter. "There was no, 'Hi, how you doing?' He went straight from seeing me to showing concern," Kaleka said. After Kaleka told him what happened, Michaelis admitted that he too was a klutz, and a friendship was born. Michaelis doesn't shy away from discussing his past. He grew up in an alcoholic, emotionally cold household. He began to rebel as early as kindergarten, bullying other kids on the bus and picking fights on the playground. He eventually got into the white-power movement for the shock value, but the more he associated with haters, the more he began to hate. But hating was exhausting. He couldn't watch Green Bay Packers games because black and white players were playing together. He couldn't watch TV because Hollywood was a Jewish conspiracy. He loved "Seinfeld" but he had to record it on a videotape labeled "Amber's second birthday party" so his white-power friends wouldn't know he thought a Jew was hilarious. Eventually, the combination of his daughter's birth and a friend dying in a street fight was the catalyst for him to move on. His past never really left him, though. When he heard that the gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple was a white supremacist, he lay awake that night agonizing that the gunman might have been someone he'd recruited into the white-power movement or inspired as the lead singer of the hate band Centurion. It turns out he hadn't known Page but he still felt responsible for his actions. "We were both white-power skinheads. We were both in white-power bands," Michaelis said. "In just about every sense, I used to be him." That's why his message now is one of peace. He tells kids they're not being tough when they counter aggression with aggression — what takes real strength is walking away. He acknowledges that his younger self would have ignored that message, but he still hopes to make a difference with a new generation. Connecting with children became so much easier after he and Kaleka teamed up. When kids hear from someone who used to be a violent hater, and then from someone whose father fell victim to that very hatred, the message is sobering. "We realized the reason this (temple shooting) happens is that we magnify the differences between people. We don't magnify the similarities," Kaleka said. "So one of our main goals is to magnify those similarities and say, 'Hey, I'm not so different from you. So let's come together in a common cause." ___ [I]Dinesh Ramde can be reached at [email]dramde@ap.org[/email].[/I] © Copyright (c) [B]source: [/B][url]http://www.*****************/news/After+Sikh+temple+attack+victims+exwhite+supremacist+formed/8747841/story.html[/url][/COLOR] [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/after-sikh-temple-attack-victims-son-and-former-white-supremacist-formed-unlikely-alliance/2013/08/04/3e49d8fe-fd19-11e2-8294-0ee5075b840d_story.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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