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ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
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Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
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Bhagat Bani (91-93)
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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)
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Thintteen (343-344)
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Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
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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)
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Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Suchajee (762)
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Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
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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)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
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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)
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Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
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Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
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Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
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<blockquote data-quote="NamHariKaur" data-source="post: 12252" data-attributes="member: 1453"><p><span style="color: magenta">Sat Nam!</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: magenta">Thank you for this incredibly detailed report and all the research about Guru Nanak's birthday. I will make a file from it to look at later too. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: magenta">Also it was helpful for me to hear that the Guru calls to many people in amazing ways. If the people I approached a year ago at our Ashram had said that to me it would have made me feel so much less crazy. I am sure that having to come to believe in my experiences without help from others has only made me stronger, but it was a very painful growing process that took many months for me. I do not try to 2nd guess the Guru's ways. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'GurbaniLipi'"><span style="color: magenta"><span style="font-size: 12px">nwnk inrguix gxu kry gux vMiqAw guxu</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">dy</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: magenta">That might not be the best quote - but it is an example of how we can not predict or know what God's Will might be - because in that quote we can not know when or who will recieve the blessing of God's merciful glance - one with no virtues and seemingly undeserving may be so blessed or one who seems deserving of it might be so blessed. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: magenta"><strong><u>I have a separate question to ask relating to another posting you made at this site,</u></strong> if you would be so kind as to address it. You mentioned the way in which Yogi Bhajan was given the title of Siri Singh Sahib. There were quite a few words that I am not familiar with in that post. "takhat? or something like that for example. If you could clarify things like who these groups are that make decisions of this sort and a little about how many kinds of decision making bodies there are in Sikhi, and their relative power and/or some history of these matters or which group handles which realms - <u><em><strong>anything you can share about these matters would be great. </strong></em></u></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: magenta">Maybe you can just show me where I can read about that sort of thing myself and I can come back after reading there and ask a much shorter question or two. The Sikh community I worship with is 3HO and in fact we are the home of the Yogi Tea and Yogi Breakfast Cereals factory. This town was a favorite stopover place for Yogi Bhajan and also many of those here were his body guards and personal attendants as they grew up. Loyalty to him runs very high here. So I do not like to ask questions here that may be taken as impertinent or disrespectful to him. I never met him nor have I personally found his teaching style - from videos and tapes and transcribed lectures - to my liking, though I have not encountered anything in his teachings that I could not substantiate from other writings by others in Sikhi or other Eastern traditions. It is only his style that I find too abrasive - rude and insulting much of the time. Also he changes the subject before being complete with it. I also feel that because of the shifting of the subject in his lectures that some of the 3HO sikhs may not have interpretted some of his teachings the way he meant them to be understood. This is not the time for me to go into that, though I might do so somewhere at this site at another time. I am not wanting to be controversial, but neither am I one to bury my head in the sand if I have a truth that it might benefit others to hear. </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: magenta">I know that currently there are issues about women not being allowed to do seva I think, in the Golden Temple and that women can not perform Kirtan in Golden Temple - if I have my facts straight. I am not asking you to take a position one way or the other on these issues but to inform me about the names of the groups that make such decisions. And if you know some of the history of these things that would be awesome. </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: magenta">Another example is the group that has not changed Guru Nanak's birthday to April 15 also, do you have any knowledge about their position - why they have not changed the celebration of it to April 15? I know I am asking a lot of things here - and I will graciously accept whatever is right for you to respond to. I trust you will be able to help me find answers to some of these questions.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: magenta">I thank you again for what you have already provided for me and in advance for whatever consideration you give to these requests. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: magenta">Wahe Guru!</span></p><p><span style="color: magenta">Nam Hari Kaur, Eugene Oregon</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NamHariKaur, post: 12252, member: 1453"] [color=magenta]Sat Nam![/color] [color=magenta]Thank you for this incredibly detailed report and all the research about Guru Nanak's birthday. I will make a file from it to look at later too. [/color] [color=magenta][/color] [color=magenta]Also it was helpful for me to hear that the Guru calls to many people in amazing ways. If the people I approached a year ago at our Ashram had said that to me it would have made me feel so much less crazy. I am sure that having to come to believe in my experiences without help from others has only made me stronger, but it was a very painful growing process that took many months for me. I do not try to 2nd guess the Guru's ways. [/color] [font=GurbaniLipi][color=magenta][/color][/font] [font=GurbaniLipi][color=magenta][size=3]nwnk inrguix gxu kry gux vMiqAw guxu[/size] [size=3]dy[/size][/color][/font] [color=magenta]That might not be the best quote - but it is an example of how we can not predict or know what God's Will might be - because in that quote we can not know when or who will recieve the blessing of God's merciful glance - one with no virtues and seemingly undeserving may be so blessed or one who seems deserving of it might be so blessed. [/color] [color=magenta][/color] [color=magenta][b][u]I have a separate question to ask relating to another posting you made at this site,[/u][/b] if you would be so kind as to address it. You mentioned the way in which Yogi Bhajan was given the title of Siri Singh Sahib. There were quite a few words that I am not familiar with in that post. "takhat? or something like that for example. If you could clarify things like who these groups are that make decisions of this sort and a little about how many kinds of decision making bodies there are in Sikhi, and their relative power and/or some history of these matters or which group handles which realms - [u][i][b]anything you can share about these matters would be great. [/b][/i][/u][/color] [color=magenta][/color] [color=magenta][/color] [color=magenta]Maybe you can just show me where I can read about that sort of thing myself and I can come back after reading there and ask a much shorter question or two. The Sikh community I worship with is 3HO and in fact we are the home of the Yogi Tea and Yogi Breakfast Cereals factory. This town was a favorite stopover place for Yogi Bhajan and also many of those here were his body guards and personal attendants as they grew up. Loyalty to him runs very high here. So I do not like to ask questions here that may be taken as impertinent or disrespectful to him. I never met him nor have I personally found his teaching style - from videos and tapes and transcribed lectures - to my liking, though I have not encountered anything in his teachings that I could not substantiate from other writings by others in Sikhi or other Eastern traditions. It is only his style that I find too abrasive - rude and insulting much of the time. Also he changes the subject before being complete with it. I also feel that because of the shifting of the subject in his lectures that some of the 3HO sikhs may not have interpretted some of his teachings the way he meant them to be understood. This is not the time for me to go into that, though I might do so somewhere at this site at another time. I am not wanting to be controversial, but neither am I one to bury my head in the sand if I have a truth that it might benefit others to hear. [/color] [color=magenta][/color] [color=magenta][/color] [color=magenta]I know that currently there are issues about women not being allowed to do seva I think, in the Golden Temple and that women can not perform Kirtan in Golden Temple - if I have my facts straight. I am not asking you to take a position one way or the other on these issues but to inform me about the names of the groups that make such decisions. And if you know some of the history of these things that would be awesome. [/color] [color=magenta][/color] [color=magenta][/color] [color=magenta]Another example is the group that has not changed Guru Nanak's birthday to April 15 also, do you have any knowledge about their position - why they have not changed the celebration of it to April 15? I know I am asking a lot of things here - and I will graciously accept whatever is right for you to respond to. I trust you will be able to help me find answers to some of these questions.[/color] [color=magenta][/color] [color=magenta]I thank you again for what you have already provided for me and in advance for whatever consideration you give to these requests. [/color] [color=magenta][/color] [color=magenta]Wahe Guru![/color] [color=magenta]Nam Hari Kaur, Eugene Oregon[/color] [/QUOTE]
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