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Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
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Gurbani (660-685)
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Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
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Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
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Gurbani (1125-1152)
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Gurbani (1197-1200)
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Gurbani (1294-96)
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<blockquote data-quote="NamHariKaur" data-source="post: 12164" data-attributes="member: 1453"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: magenta"><strong>Sat Nam Jarnail Singh Gyani Arshi Ji;</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: magenta"><strong>Your answer to my question is more detailed and thorough than I expected to get. This is a wonderful answer and I thank you for taking so much time to present it fully as you have done. </strong></span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #ff00ff">I had heard a little about those who had written their own Bani and that Guru Arjun had compiled the Adi Granth so as to make it clear which works were considered true works of the Guru, but I had not realized that the false works had been by family members of Guru Nanak. Perhaps it had been stated thus and it had not fully registered with me. Also I had not read anything about the scholars you mentioned, who investigated these elements of history,. so that part was <u><em>entirely </em></u>new to me. </span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #ff00ff">My gratitude to you for this fine reply to my question. I will copy it and present it to my friend that told me that the April 15 date was incorrect. And now I can also feel doubly blessed at having found myself compelled to go to the local Ashram for the first time on as auspicious a date as Guru Nanaks birthday April 15 (of 2004). One of the reasons this detail caught my attention is that from the beginning, when I knew nothing at all of Sikhi or Gurbani, after a few weeks of listening to Hukhams and Kirtan, I came to notice that whenever the name of "Nanak" was pronounced (which was only a "word" to me at that time), I would experience a "wave" of bliss or rapture if I was in a meditatively attentive state. I had found that to be wonderful but strange and was all the more intriqued when I begun my studies and learned who Guru Nanak was. Then when I read that Guru Nanak's birthday was thought to be April 15 by scholars I just shook my head in wonderment. I know better than to let my ego mind make too much of such things but it all just tends to add weight to the intensity of all of the early events leading to my immersion in this life of worship. </span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #ff00ff">You have been very generous to provide all this information;</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #ff00ff">Sat Nam!</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #ff00ff">Nam Hari Kaur, Eugene, Oregon</span></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NamHariKaur, post: 12164, member: 1453"] [font=Arial Narrow][color=magenta][b]Sat Nam Jarnail Singh Gyani Arshi Ji;[/b][/color][/font] [font=Arial Narrow][color=magenta][b]Your answer to my question is more detailed and thorough than I expected to get. This is a wonderful answer and I thank you for taking so much time to present it fully as you have done. [/b][/color][/font] [b][font=Arial Narrow][color=#ff00ff]I had heard a little about those who had written their own Bani and that Guru Arjun had compiled the Adi Granth so as to make it clear which works were considered true works of the Guru, but I had not realized that the false works had been by family members of Guru Nanak. Perhaps it had been stated thus and it had not fully registered with me. Also I had not read anything about the scholars you mentioned, who investigated these elements of history,. so that part was [u][i]entirely [/i][/u]new to me. [/color][/font][/b] [b][font=Arial Narrow][color=#ff00ff][/color][/font][/b] [b][font=Arial Narrow][color=#ff00ff]My gratitude to you for this fine reply to my question. I will copy it and present it to my friend that told me that the April 15 date was incorrect. And now I can also feel doubly blessed at having found myself compelled to go to the local Ashram for the first time on as auspicious a date as Guru Nanaks birthday April 15 (of 2004). One of the reasons this detail caught my attention is that from the beginning, when I knew nothing at all of Sikhi or Gurbani, after a few weeks of listening to Hukhams and Kirtan, I came to notice that whenever the name of "Nanak" was pronounced (which was only a "word" to me at that time), I would experience a "wave" of bliss or rapture if I was in a meditatively attentive state. I had found that to be wonderful but strange and was all the more intriqued when I begun my studies and learned who Guru Nanak was. Then when I read that Guru Nanak's birthday was thought to be April 15 by scholars I just shook my head in wonderment. I know better than to let my ego mind make too much of such things but it all just tends to add weight to the intensity of all of the early events leading to my immersion in this life of worship. [/color][/font][/b] [b][font=Arial Narrow][color=#ff00ff][/color][/font][/b] [b][font=Arial Narrow][color=#ff00ff]You have been very generous to provide all this information;[/color][/font][/b] [b][font=Arial Narrow][color=#ff00ff]Sat Nam![/color][/font][/b] [b][font=Arial Narrow][color=#ff00ff][/color][/font][/b] [b][font=Arial Narrow][color=#ff00ff]Nam Hari Kaur, Eugene, Oregon[/color][/font][/b] [/QUOTE]
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