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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="dalsingh" data-source="post: 51621" data-attributes="member: 2883"><p>Seeing as some seem keen to make out that conversions and harrassment of SIkh girls in the U.K. is some conspiracy theory I'm posting the following. I had done so previously as a link but this time you can read the whole thing. It was written by a respectable doctor who also writes for Spectator Magazine: I hope my people draw the appropriate conclusions from this. It is not an isolated case.</p><p> </p><p>Like the famous song goes - Mundian toon bach ke rayee! At least this time of lafunga. </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200305/ai_n9266337" target="_blank">Second opinion Spectator, The - Find Articles</a></p><p> </p><p>Second opinion</p><p>Spectator, The, May 31, 2003 by Dalrymple, Theodore</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is no accounting for taste, of course - or should I say thank God? A theory of human taste would be almost as horrible as the taste it sets out to explain, and quite as unflattering to the human race. It is as well, therefore, just to recount the facts.</p><p> </p><p>Last week I saw a woman with what is sometimes called a lived-in face. There are no prizes for guessing what kind of life the owners of lived-in faces live; and so it was with my patient. As the good William Blake once so accurately remarked:</p><p> </p><p>Every night and every morn</p><p> </p><p>Some to misery are born. . .</p><p> </p><p>Of that fellowship was she. However, she told me that she had an infallible method of improving her mood.</p><p> </p><p>'What is it?' I asked.</p><p> </p><p>'When I gets a little low, I tells him to hit me. That makes me feel better.'</p><p> </p><p>The him in question was her boyfriend. Her face looked as if he had done her some damage, just to oblige her, but of course her request rather took the pleasure out of beating a woman. It is a bit like shooting at a sitting duck: not quite cricket, to mix metaphors just for once. Bad taste is not without its adverse consequences, of course. That same day I saw a young Sikh woman, living away from home, who had chosen a Muslim boyfriend; not just any old Muslim, but a weight-training martial-arts Muslim. There may be no art to find the mind's construction in the face, but art was hardly necessary: his evil was manifest, he exuded it as a skunk exudes scent.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>With devilish cunning, he had fixed upon a Sikh girlfriend</strong> precisely because he knew that she would not be able to complain about him to her parents. They would tell her that she deserved what she got, and then disown her.</p><p> </p><p>Thus he had carte blanche to torture her as he wished. He locked her up and would not allow her to go to work. He stole her car, her passport and her telephone. He extracted from her by means of violence the numbers that would allow him to draw money from her account at cash machines, with her various cards; so far, he had taken L6,000. He beat her and held her against the wall with his hand round her throat.</p><p> </p><p>She took an overdose and called an ambulance. It was her only means of escape. He followed her to hospital with obsessive malignity.</p><p> </p><p>She would not inform the police, of course. His friends were as evil as he, and evil men stick together: they are unionised. They would terrify her into dropping the charges. And even if he were found guilty, he would receive no punishment commensurate with his crimes; only a life sentence, as he deserved and as scores of thousands of young men in this country deserve, with absolutely no possibility of parole, would do. She knew that it was hopeless - that our Lord Chief Justice is wholly on the side of malefactors - and that her only hope was to disappear without trace. This we helped her to do.</p><p> </p><p>Never was a more bitter tear shed in my room.</p><p> </p><p>Then I had a happy thought. It was obvious that the evil young man was suffering from low self-esteem. I had the solution: when the royal family is driven out, as shortly it must be, to moulder in Estoril, and we need a president for the new British Republic, why not make him president? His self-esteem would be wonderfully enhanced. And does he not truly represent our new thrusting, dynamic, youthful, tolerant, multicultural, equal-opportunity Britain, of which indeed he is the finest flower?</p><p> </p><p>Copyright Spectator May 31, 2003</p><p>Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p>----------------------------------------</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dalsingh, post: 51621, member: 2883"] Seeing as some seem keen to make out that conversions and harrassment of SIkh girls in the U.K. is some conspiracy theory I'm posting the following. I had done so previously as a link but this time you can read the whole thing. It was written by a respectable doctor who also writes for Spectator Magazine: I hope my people draw the appropriate conclusions from this. It is not an isolated case. Like the famous song goes - Mundian toon bach ke rayee! At least this time of lafunga. [URL="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200305/ai_n9266337"]Second opinion Spectator, The - Find Articles[/URL] Second opinion Spectator, The, May 31, 2003 by Dalrymple, Theodore There is no accounting for taste, of course - or should I say thank God? A theory of human taste would be almost as horrible as the taste it sets out to explain, and quite as unflattering to the human race. It is as well, therefore, just to recount the facts. Last week I saw a woman with what is sometimes called a lived-in face. There are no prizes for guessing what kind of life the owners of lived-in faces live; and so it was with my patient. As the good William Blake once so accurately remarked: Every night and every morn Some to misery are born. . . Of that fellowship was she. However, she told me that she had an infallible method of improving her mood. 'What is it?' I asked. 'When I gets a little low, I tells him to hit me. That makes me feel better.' The him in question was her boyfriend. Her face looked as if he had done her some damage, just to oblige her, but of course her request rather took the pleasure out of beating a woman. It is a bit like shooting at a sitting duck: not quite cricket, to mix metaphors just for once. Bad taste is not without its adverse consequences, of course. That same day I saw a young Sikh woman, living away from home, who had chosen a Muslim boyfriend; not just any old Muslim, but a weight-training martial-arts Muslim. There may be no art to find the mind's construction in the face, but art was hardly necessary: his evil was manifest, he exuded it as a skunk exudes scent. [B]With devilish cunning, he had fixed upon a Sikh girlfriend[/B] precisely because he knew that she would not be able to complain about him to her parents. They would tell her that she deserved what she got, and then disown her. Thus he had carte blanche to torture her as he wished. He locked her up and would not allow her to go to work. He stole her car, her passport and her telephone. He extracted from her by means of violence the numbers that would allow him to draw money from her account at cash machines, with her various cards; so far, he had taken L6,000. He beat her and held her against the wall with his hand round her throat. She took an overdose and called an ambulance. It was her only means of escape. He followed her to hospital with obsessive malignity. She would not inform the police, of course. His friends were as evil as he, and evil men stick together: they are unionised. They would terrify her into dropping the charges. And even if he were found guilty, he would receive no punishment commensurate with his crimes; only a life sentence, as he deserved and as scores of thousands of young men in this country deserve, with absolutely no possibility of parole, would do. She knew that it was hopeless - that our Lord Chief Justice is wholly on the side of malefactors - and that her only hope was to disappear without trace. This we helped her to do. Never was a more bitter tear shed in my room. Then I had a happy thought. It was obvious that the evil young man was suffering from low self-esteem. I had the solution: when the royal family is driven out, as shortly it must be, to moulder in Estoril, and we need a president for the new British Republic, why not make him president? His self-esteem would be wonderfully enhanced. And does he not truly represent our new thrusting, dynamic, youthful, tolerant, multicultural, equal-opportunity Britain, of which indeed he is the finest flower? Copyright Spectator May 31, 2003 Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- [/QUOTE]
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