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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="IJSingh" data-source="post: 194050" data-attributes="member: 403"><p>BODY MIND & SOUL</p><p></p><p>I.J. Singh</p><p></p><p>I am part of a small group of Sikhs that meets once a month to discuss matters spiritual and historical over a fine repast. A recent conversation veered towards an issue that has recently set the Internet aflame with passionate arguments on the nature of mind, body and soul. </p><p></p><p>Matters were copacetic until someone cited an iconic Sikh writer to make the case that “We are not body but soul which is the essential element of existence.” A high-octane debate erupted that laid bare a firewall holding all reason at bay.</p><p></p><p>And I wondered!</p><p></p><p>In fact this is not a shocking or unusual position to take when talking of spiritual matters. Ancient Indian mythology looks at atma (soul) as a part of Paramatma or the Creator; Literally “Param-atma” would translate as the first or primary soul. In this model, at death the human soul would be recycled into some species of existence after Judgment or merge into Paramatma and become freed of the cycle of birth and rebirth. (Is the latter then the equivalent of the Judeo-Christian concept of finding a place on the right hand of God in heaven?)</p><p></p><p>It becomes natural then to diminish and degrade the body, including bodily functions, needs and wants. Then the goal of life becomes to withdraw from worldly concerns and look for an available mountain top or a jungle to focus on a life of prayer and worship in solitude. And that exactly is the essence of much of Indian mythology. </p><p></p><p>Incidentally Sikhi, from its very beginning, has clearly rejected such a mind set. Mortifying the flesh has absolutely no place in Sikh teaching or practice. I consign to similar reasoning the question that occupies many religions – what gestational day does the soul enter the fetus?</p><p></p><p>Remember also the essential Sikh teaching that the Creator is best experienced in the Creation, not outside of it; this would be naturally and necessarily evident from its attribute that we label as omnipresence. Certainly the Creator occupies no specific location in a different zip code or time zone where we need to reach in order to affect whatever merger we have in mind. The best merger is of divine attributes to be attained and practiced during life and not at death.</p><p></p><p>I know that mythology offers some formidable models of the journey of the soul that takes, in Hindu mythology, eleven months from the place of death to the abode of the Final Judgment wherever that is.</p><p></p><p> Mind you no one has ever seen the soul, nor is it demonstrable or even approximated by any of our most sophisticated devices; there is no measurable loss of even an iota of any substance in amount or volume at death. </p><p></p><p>From our limited human perspective then soul is perhaps best understood as life force; physical death occurs when the force departs the flesh – when the link between the vessel and the content is sundered. The flesh returns to earth whence it emerged to become part of the greater biological life cycle.</p><p></p><p>Nevertheless, in our limited understanding, mind, body and soul are seen and talked about as three separate entities, each capable of independent existence. In such a formulation then to diminish the body and exalt the soul would not be an alarming or astonishing concept at all and that’s the usual take of most religions on the matter.</p><p></p><p>The run of the mill Sikh teaching/practice is not much different. In fact the idea I started with that “We are not body but soul which is the essential element of existence” appears to have become the core of much of Sikh lore and comes to us from the ever rich and popular Indic mythology.</p><p></p><p>Think with me a bit:</p><p></p><p>We all know that water has no shape of its own; it assumes the form of the container and that’s how we become aware of it. It can exist as vapor, as moisture in clouds, as a pitcher full, as steam, as ice or as a wave in the sea – in free form or combined with something else, within the living flesh or outside of it.</p><p></p><p>By its shape we experience it, so I would think that the carrier (vessel and its shape) would be just as essential as the water within it. (Before someone jumps on me for fundamental ignorance of basic chemistry, let me state that I understand the chemical structure of water but that’s not the issue here.) Similarly, one needs to comprehend ideas of body, mind and spirit or soul in collective interaction and not as packets of isolated and independent existence. </p><p></p><p>Certainly, mind and soul have no three-dimensional structure.</p><p></p><p>The soul is something similar to water with no shape of its own but, for us earthlings it is experienced as what gives us life -- the force within the vessel of flesh. Without the body the soul has no reality. The mind is similar – without the flesh – the brain – the mind does not exist. The container of the flesh gives them shape and existence. So what comes first: the brain or the mind; the flesh or the soul? I hope to explore my take on the mind in a longer essay at another time.</p><p></p><p>Parsing this triad of body, mind and soul often engages us in spirited discussions that just as often end in frustration because the three elements are analyzed individually – in somewhat of a reductionist’s approach. Nothing wrong with this model of reasoning except that it remains incomplete. A holistic view needs to step in after the reductionist’s analysis has completed its task. </p><p></p><p>Guru Nanak refers thus to this timeless dilemma in Assa-di-Vaar (Guru Granth, p. 469):</p><p></p><p>Kumbhe badhaa jull rahae, jull bin kumbh na hoye;</p><p></p><p>Gyan ka badha munn rahae, Gur bin gyan na hoye.</p><p></p><p>In other word, just as the pitcher confines the water but cannot be shaped without water; similarly the mind is restrained by the sagacity within it but sans gnosis there is no mind</p><p></p><p>Forget not that if the mind is shaped by the knowledge within it then this information can range from pure unbridled evil to sublime wisdom – always with large patches of ignorance.</p><p></p><p>The reductionist’s approach alone is a useful mental exercise and wonderful analytic tool it but doesn’t help our understanding all that much.</p><p></p><p>November 15, 2013</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IJSingh, post: 194050, member: 403"] BODY MIND & SOUL I.J. Singh I am part of a small group of Sikhs that meets once a month to discuss matters spiritual and historical over a fine repast. A recent conversation veered towards an issue that has recently set the Internet aflame with passionate arguments on the nature of mind, body and soul. Matters were copacetic until someone cited an iconic Sikh writer to make the case that “We are not body but soul which is the essential element of existence.” A high-octane debate erupted that laid bare a firewall holding all reason at bay. And I wondered! In fact this is not a shocking or unusual position to take when talking of spiritual matters. Ancient Indian mythology looks at atma (soul) as a part of Paramatma or the Creator; Literally “Param-atma” would translate as the first or primary soul. In this model, at death the human soul would be recycled into some species of existence after Judgment or merge into Paramatma and become freed of the cycle of birth and rebirth. (Is the latter then the equivalent of the Judeo-Christian concept of finding a place on the right hand of God in heaven?) It becomes natural then to diminish and degrade the body, including bodily functions, needs and wants. Then the goal of life becomes to withdraw from worldly concerns and look for an available mountain top or a jungle to focus on a life of prayer and worship in solitude. And that exactly is the essence of much of Indian mythology. Incidentally Sikhi, from its very beginning, has clearly rejected such a mind set. Mortifying the flesh has absolutely no place in Sikh teaching or practice. I consign to similar reasoning the question that occupies many religions – what gestational day does the soul enter the fetus? Remember also the essential Sikh teaching that the Creator is best experienced in the Creation, not outside of it; this would be naturally and necessarily evident from its attribute that we label as omnipresence. Certainly the Creator occupies no specific location in a different zip code or time zone where we need to reach in order to affect whatever merger we have in mind. The best merger is of divine attributes to be attained and practiced during life and not at death. I know that mythology offers some formidable models of the journey of the soul that takes, in Hindu mythology, eleven months from the place of death to the abode of the Final Judgment wherever that is. Mind you no one has ever seen the soul, nor is it demonstrable or even approximated by any of our most sophisticated devices; there is no measurable loss of even an iota of any substance in amount or volume at death. From our limited human perspective then soul is perhaps best understood as life force; physical death occurs when the force departs the flesh – when the link between the vessel and the content is sundered. The flesh returns to earth whence it emerged to become part of the greater biological life cycle. Nevertheless, in our limited understanding, mind, body and soul are seen and talked about as three separate entities, each capable of independent existence. In such a formulation then to diminish the body and exalt the soul would not be an alarming or astonishing concept at all and that’s the usual take of most religions on the matter. The run of the mill Sikh teaching/practice is not much different. In fact the idea I started with that “We are not body but soul which is the essential element of existence” appears to have become the core of much of Sikh lore and comes to us from the ever rich and popular Indic mythology. Think with me a bit: We all know that water has no shape of its own; it assumes the form of the container and that’s how we become aware of it. It can exist as vapor, as moisture in clouds, as a pitcher full, as steam, as ice or as a wave in the sea – in free form or combined with something else, within the living flesh or outside of it. By its shape we experience it, so I would think that the carrier (vessel and its shape) would be just as essential as the water within it. (Before someone jumps on me for fundamental ignorance of basic chemistry, let me state that I understand the chemical structure of water but that’s not the issue here.) Similarly, one needs to comprehend ideas of body, mind and spirit or soul in collective interaction and not as packets of isolated and independent existence. Certainly, mind and soul have no three-dimensional structure. The soul is something similar to water with no shape of its own but, for us earthlings it is experienced as what gives us life -- the force within the vessel of flesh. Without the body the soul has no reality. The mind is similar – without the flesh – the brain – the mind does not exist. The container of the flesh gives them shape and existence. So what comes first: the brain or the mind; the flesh or the soul? I hope to explore my take on the mind in a longer essay at another time. Parsing this triad of body, mind and soul often engages us in spirited discussions that just as often end in frustration because the three elements are analyzed individually – in somewhat of a reductionist’s approach. Nothing wrong with this model of reasoning except that it remains incomplete. A holistic view needs to step in after the reductionist’s analysis has completed its task. Guru Nanak refers thus to this timeless dilemma in Assa-di-Vaar (Guru Granth, p. 469): Kumbhe badhaa jull rahae, jull bin kumbh na hoye; Gyan ka badha munn rahae, Gur bin gyan na hoye. In other word, just as the pitcher confines the water but cannot be shaped without water; similarly the mind is restrained by the sagacity within it but sans gnosis there is no mind Forget not that if the mind is shaped by the knowledge within it then this information can range from pure unbridled evil to sublime wisdom – always with large patches of ignorance. The reductionist’s approach alone is a useful mental exercise and wonderful analytic tool it but doesn’t help our understanding all that much. November 15, 2013 [/QUOTE]
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