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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="Astroboy" data-source="post: 99593" data-attributes="member: 4990"><p>Practicing gratitude for the marvels of the body</p><p> <strong><img src="http://www.gratefulness.org/p/images/c_babyswim2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Welcome! </strong>In how many places have you lived in the course of your life? The list may be a long one. Remember how it feels to be a stranger in a new place, and how grateful you are when someone helps you become at home there? You may have managed to make a great many different places your home, and still need help to become more truly at home in your own body. If you feel that need, this practice session may appeal to you.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: right">Step 1</p><p> <img src="http://www.gratefulness.org/p/images/x_eye.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Returning after a long time to your childhood home, you may find your bedroom pretty much unchanged, though someone else may live there now. In contrast, the body in which you live is constantly changing. As you know, over a space of seven years your body replaces practically every single molecule with a new one. But did you know that every morning, the first time you open your eyes, the top layer of your vision-sensor receptors is simply scorched away, and you literally see the world with new eyes? And still more amazingly, that two million of your red blood cells die every single second; and two million new ones take their place? You can learn fascinating facts like these through the games on this BBC <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/index_interactivebody.shtml" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.gratefulness.org/images/icon_popup_link.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />interactive body</a> page. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: right"> Step 2</p><p> <strong><img src="http://www.gratefulness.org/p/images/n_sunCroatia.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></strong>It is one thing to see bones, muscles, nerves, and blood vessels depicted “out there” on your screen; vividly to connect these mental images with this living body of yours is quite a different thing. It takes training; you have to shift your attention. All this million-fold dying and renewal is actually going on within you at this very moment. Just think of it: two million red blood cells – that is more than the population of some countries! Close your eyes and say a few times slowly, “Now, now, now,” aware that with every “now” this million-fold renewal is happening in your body. Now, now, now: a pure gift. Maybe it was an experience like this that made Abraham Heschel exclaim, “Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy.” You may want to repeat your “now” a few more times, with closed eyes – not so much thinking about, but feeling the life force at work within your body.</p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: right"> Step 3</p><p> <strong><img src="http://www.gratefulness.org/p/images/nw_iceberg.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></strong>You have been focusing your attention inward to become aware of the blessing of life bubbling up within you. But you can also expand the conscious awareness of your embodiment outwards. Where are the borders of your bodily reality? Are you imprisoned within your skin? Is not your very skin an organ of encounter and exchange? Every breeze that touches your cheek connects you with the ****hest reaches of the earth’s atmosphere. A whole ocean of air has gone through your lungs, wave by wave. Portions of some storm raging now in the arctic may once have been inside you. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke mused on this and called our very breathing an “invisible poem.”</p><p> Your eyes take in stars that are unimaginably far away. And what about the food your body takes in? At every meal, what has been alive and died becomes alive again in you by nourishing your own aliveness. Eating is an act of holy communion with the Earth. Letting this sink in will take time, but you can make a start at any time. As you pause for a moment before your next meal, you can think of the cosmic connection established by eating. Promise yourself right now to do so.</p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: right"> Step 4</p><p> <strong><img src="http://www.gratefulness.org/p/images/x_vegies.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></strong>Which of the marvelous functions going on in your body amazes you most? Your heart has been beating uninterruptedly since before you were born. What keeps it beating? You eat an apple; a mysterious life force made a tiny seed grow into the tree that produced this fruit. That same life force will guide your digestion, turning this apple into energy to move and think, even the very thought you’re thinking now. You drink a glass of water, and your kidneys know how to take care of the rest; the same life force guides them.</p><p> Have you ever shown yourself grateful for these everyday marvels too deep for your mind to fathom? Now is your opportunity. Write the simple sentence: “I am grateful for my... (eyes, kidneys, spine, teeth, lungs, etc.) ... because...” To write this sentence down is a helpful exercise. It gives your gratefulness a body. And if you write it on the message board for grateful living, it will in addition inspire others.</p><p> Congratulations! </p><p> Having followed the simple steps suggested by this practice session, you may feel a little more grounded now, a little more at home, not only in your body, but in this amazing universe which is our larger home. And thank you for helping this website become home for many on the internet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Astroboy, post: 99593, member: 4990"] Practicing gratitude for the marvels of the body [B][IMG]http://www.gratefulness.org/p/images/c_babyswim2.jpg[/IMG]Welcome! [/B]In how many places have you lived in the course of your life? The list may be a long one. Remember how it feels to be a stranger in a new place, and how grateful you are when someone helps you become at home there? You may have managed to make a great many different places your home, and still need help to become more truly at home in your own body. If you feel that need, this practice session may appeal to you. [RIGHT]Step 1[/RIGHT] [IMG]http://www.gratefulness.org/p/images/x_eye.jpg[/IMG] Returning after a long time to your childhood home, you may find your bedroom pretty much unchanged, though someone else may live there now. In contrast, the body in which you live is constantly changing. As you know, over a space of seven years your body replaces practically every single molecule with a new one. But did you know that every morning, the first time you open your eyes, the top layer of your vision-sensor receptors is simply scorched away, and you literally see the world with new eyes? And still more amazingly, that two million of your red blood cells die every single second; and two million new ones take their place? You can learn fascinating facts like these through the games on this BBC [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/index_interactivebody.shtml"][IMG]http://www.gratefulness.org/images/icon_popup_link.gif[/IMG]interactive body[/URL] page. [RIGHT] Step 2[/RIGHT] [B][IMG]http://www.gratefulness.org/p/images/n_sunCroatia.jpg[/IMG][/B]It is one thing to see bones, muscles, nerves, and blood vessels depicted “out there” on your screen; vividly to connect these mental images with this living body of yours is quite a different thing. It takes training; you have to shift your attention. All this million-fold dying and renewal is actually going on within you at this very moment. Just think of it: two million red blood cells – that is more than the population of some countries! Close your eyes and say a few times slowly, “Now, now, now,” aware that with every “now” this million-fold renewal is happening in your body. Now, now, now: a pure gift. Maybe it was an experience like this that made Abraham Heschel exclaim, “Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy.” You may want to repeat your “now” a few more times, with closed eyes – not so much thinking about, but feeling the life force at work within your body. [RIGHT] Step 3[/RIGHT] [B][IMG]http://www.gratefulness.org/p/images/nw_iceberg.jpg[/IMG][/B]You have been focusing your attention inward to become aware of the blessing of life bubbling up within you. But you can also expand the conscious awareness of your embodiment outwards. Where are the borders of your bodily reality? Are you imprisoned within your skin? Is not your very skin an organ of encounter and exchange? Every breeze that touches your cheek connects you with the ****hest reaches of the earth’s atmosphere. A whole ocean of air has gone through your lungs, wave by wave. Portions of some storm raging now in the arctic may once have been inside you. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke mused on this and called our very breathing an “invisible poem.” Your eyes take in stars that are unimaginably far away. And what about the food your body takes in? At every meal, what has been alive and died becomes alive again in you by nourishing your own aliveness. Eating is an act of holy communion with the Earth. Letting this sink in will take time, but you can make a start at any time. As you pause for a moment before your next meal, you can think of the cosmic connection established by eating. Promise yourself right now to do so. [RIGHT] Step 4[/RIGHT] [B][IMG]http://www.gratefulness.org/p/images/x_vegies.gif[/IMG][/B]Which of the marvelous functions going on in your body amazes you most? Your heart has been beating uninterruptedly since before you were born. What keeps it beating? You eat an apple; a mysterious life force made a tiny seed grow into the tree that produced this fruit. That same life force will guide your digestion, turning this apple into energy to move and think, even the very thought you’re thinking now. You drink a glass of water, and your kidneys know how to take care of the rest; the same life force guides them. Have you ever shown yourself grateful for these everyday marvels too deep for your mind to fathom? Now is your opportunity. Write the simple sentence: “I am grateful for my... (eyes, kidneys, spine, teeth, lungs, etc.) ... because...” To write this sentence down is a helpful exercise. It gives your gratefulness a body. And if you write it on the message board for grateful living, it will in addition inspire others. Congratulations! Having followed the simple steps suggested by this practice session, you may feel a little more grounded now, a little more at home, not only in your body, but in this amazing universe which is our larger home. And thank you for helping this website become home for many on the internet. [/QUOTE]
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