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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="Tejwant Singh" data-source="post: 142415" data-attributes="member: 138"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Caspian ji,</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Guru Fateh.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I wrote the response and then all of a sudden it disappeared when I was editing it. Let me give it another shot.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks for your post.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">As I mentioned in my previous post that you as an Atheist is looking from the outside and judging others without knowing their true intent. If you belonged to some religion and compared Sikhi customs with yours, then it would be understandable on the comparative basis. If you become a Sikh and find some faults in it and you feel the need for them to be corrected, then you have every right to do that. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">It is funny to notice how Atheists like to criticize other religions without giving it a second thought. And btw, an Atheist is who does not believe in the Abrahamical or any kind of deity God which again has nothing to do with Sikhi.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I have many Atheist friends who are non- Indians and appreciate the message of Gurbani.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Let me ask you something. If you are talking among your Atheist friends and wished the Egyptians well for what they have accomplished, would that mean you are praying to your personal Atheist God? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">John Lennon was an Atheist. Does his song <strong>“Imagine”</strong> reflect any prayer to his personal God for the good of humanity?</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Do the UN peace forces when deployed for peace have some personal God behind them?</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">What I am trying to say is that your reasoning to prove something negative in Sikhi when the facts show to the contrary makes no sense. Why is it difficult for you to see the message of Gurbani which is same as your wishing well to the Egyptians, "Imagine" by John Lennon and the UN Forces?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Well, once again you are judging them. Perhaps, they have not understood the true message of Gurbani yet. Once they do, they will stop performing meaningless rituals which they would realise are against the Gurmat values. As, you, yourself have said that Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Sikhi reject personal God. Let them be Sikhs, students, learners, seekers. They will come around.</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Have <em>faith</em> in them.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">My response will be the same as above.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I beg to differ with you. Guru means an enlightener, a teacher. Most of the educational books or of many other kinds that we study/read become our enlighteners, our teachers because we learn something from them.This is the fact and there no denying it. No human intervention is needed in this kind of learning. If one is a student, he/she can learn from different sources and ask for the opinions of different students and then make up his/her own mind. The same thing is true for the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">It seems to me that you are trying to find points of contentions that do not exist.</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks for proving my point above that Sikhi is nothing to do with personal God but is based on universal values. The case in point is The Bill of Rights which echoes Gurmat values. Similarites in western values and Gurmat values in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji are the proofs that how Sikhi values embrace all, irrespective of anyone’s faith or absence of it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">This is a very positive thing rather than a negative as your contention is.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks once again for re-emphasising my point that I mentioned above.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Which shows that Einstein had Sikhi values, quite unknowingly to him.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If cots were also used as bookshelves. I wouldn't mind. But I think most sikhs personify the Guru Granth Sahib in the same way that many Roman Catholics personify the wine and cracker as the bloody and body of christ. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Cots were also used as bookshelves at that time. Now things are changing, thanks to many outlets of knowledge about Sikhi. Your latter statement is mixing apples and oranges. Your comparison between Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Roman Catholic rituals about Jesus Christ who is considered the Christian God make no sense. As mentioned before Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji is not God as you seem to judge it as an Atheist. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Is Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji a book- Guru- or God? Please make up your mind.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks for quoting Einstein to prove my point again. Einstein is talking about personal God, not Ik Ong Kaar of Sikhi. If you have studied Spinoza and also Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, you should have found many similarities in both. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Is that a negative thing?<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></p><p>You do not realise the fact that Sikhi is pragmatic, not dogmatic as other religions which have deities as God from which the concept of being an Atheist came into existence. This is a very important distinction that you should keep in mind.</p><p></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">What if Einstein had studied Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji!!</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Regards</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Tejwant Singh</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tejwant Singh, post: 142415, member: 138"] [FONT=Verdana]Caspian ji,[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Guru Fateh.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I wrote the response and then all of a sudden it disappeared when I was editing it. Let me give it another shot.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Thanks for your post.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]As I mentioned in my previous post that you as an Atheist is looking from the outside and judging others without knowing their true intent. If you belonged to some religion and compared Sikhi customs with yours, then it would be understandable on the comparative basis. If you become a Sikh and find some faults in it and you feel the need for them to be corrected, then you have every right to do that. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]It is funny to notice how Atheists like to criticize other religions without giving it a second thought. And btw, an Atheist is who does not believe in the Abrahamical or any kind of deity God which again has nothing to do with Sikhi.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I have many Atheist friends who are non- Indians and appreciate the message of Gurbani.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Let me ask you something. If you are talking among your Atheist friends and wished the Egyptians well for what they have accomplished, would that mean you are praying to your personal Atheist God? [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]John Lennon was an Atheist. Does his song [B]“Imagine”[/B] reflect any prayer to his personal God for the good of humanity?[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Do the UN peace forces when deployed for peace have some personal God behind them?[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]What I am trying to say is that your reasoning to prove something negative in Sikhi when the facts show to the contrary makes no sense. Why is it difficult for you to see the message of Gurbani which is same as your wishing well to the Egyptians, "Imagine" by John Lennon and the UN Forces? [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Well, once again you are judging them. Perhaps, they have not understood the true message of Gurbani yet. Once they do, they will stop performing meaningless rituals which they would realise are against the Gurmat values. As, you, yourself have said that Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Sikhi reject personal God. Let them be Sikhs, students, learners, seekers. They will come around.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Have [I]faith[/I] in them.:-) [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]My response will be the same as above.:-) [/FONT][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I beg to differ with you. Guru means an enlightener, a teacher. Most of the educational books or of many other kinds that we study/read become our enlighteners, our teachers because we learn something from them.This is the fact and there no denying it. No human intervention is needed in this kind of learning. If one is a student, he/she can learn from different sources and ask for the opinions of different students and then make up his/her own mind. The same thing is true for the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]It seems to me that you are trying to find points of contentions that do not exist.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Thanks for proving my point above that Sikhi is nothing to do with personal God but is based on universal values. The case in point is The Bill of Rights which echoes Gurmat values. Similarites in western values and Gurmat values in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji are the proofs that how Sikhi values embrace all, irrespective of anyone’s faith or absence of it. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]This is a very positive thing rather than a negative as your contention is. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Thanks once again for re-emphasising my point that I mentioned above. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Which shows that Einstein had Sikhi values, quite unknowingly to him. If cots were also used as bookshelves. I wouldn't mind. But I think most sikhs personify the Guru Granth Sahib in the same way that many Roman Catholics personify the wine and cracker as the bloody and body of christ. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Cots were also used as bookshelves at that time. Now things are changing, thanks to many outlets of knowledge about Sikhi. Your latter statement is mixing apples and oranges. Your comparison between Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Roman Catholic rituals about Jesus Christ who is considered the Christian God make no sense. As mentioned before Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji is not God as you seem to judge it as an Atheist. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]Is Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji a book- Guru- or God? Please make up your mind.:-) [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Thanks for quoting Einstein to prove my point again. Einstein is talking about personal God, not Ik Ong Kaar of Sikhi. If you have studied Spinoza and also Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, you should have found many similarities in both. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Is that a negative thing?:-)[/FONT] You do not realise the fact that Sikhi is pragmatic, not dogmatic as other religions which have deities as God from which the concept of being an Atheist came into existence. This is a very important distinction that you should keep in mind. [FONT=Verdana]What if Einstein had studied Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji!![/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Regards[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] Tejwant Singh [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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