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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="Harjas Kaur Khalsa" data-source="post: 82383" data-attributes="member: 2125"><p>That perspective presupposes that what we can see of the physical universe is all that exists. It doesn't account for any other reality, or that the human being is multidimensional containing sheathes of energy and that the jivatman may not consist of physicality at all, but be a kind of energy matrix which forms the physical body based on patterns of consciousness.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Spooky action at a distance. Non-locality. Quantum entanglement. Hidden variables. Superimpositions. Modern science cannot describe how consciousness works, or how two disconnected particles can communicate across space and time. Modern science cannot explain intuition or premonition or prediction in terms of standard models of the brain. What is required is for people to think outside of the box. To be willing to let go of the scientism which denies what it can't explain. But there have always been unusual events, predictions or strange prophecies downplayed or outright ignored by science which persist throughout human history suggesting there is a phenomena quite outside the box of the prevailing world-view.</p><p></p><p></p><p>One of the key ways of determining madness from mastana, or kundalini awakening from simple schizophrenia is how it impacts other people and is not just a mental experience in isolation. It can't be a hallucination, disordered perception of an individual brain if can be caught on film, or tape recorded, or predicted years in advance with witnesses. When more than one person is having an experience, something interesting is happening. According to yogic theory, the body is composed of many layers besides the physical, subtle sheathes of dimensional vibration from the co{censored} material to the imperceptible. We can speak of pineal and pituitary glands, because yogic theory is actual science. There is a science of consciousness research and we can see how powerful changes in brain chemistry and consciousness can occur from certain practices such as pranayama and japping Gurmantara. Sadly, most accept uncritically the Western paradigm that a physical universe is all there is to existence.</p><p></p><p>Just consider this question: By what mechanism do prophecies come true? Is there a collective unconscious of the world which can be accessed somehow? Is there something about parallel universes and alternate realities? Is something accessible to certain sensitive people able to move outside the limits of space and time?</p><p>And before you would even consider the validity of such a question, the skeptics would have to honestly analyze how certain prophecies have come true. It is beyond coincidence that such accurate predictions could be mere hallucinations. Intuition. Psychic perception. Messages. Predictions. Prophecies. There is credible evidence that something beyond the merely physical operates in this world.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.michaeljournal.org/images/Alphonsine.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Kibeho, Rwanda 6 visionaries began to receive visions of the Divine Mother warning of a coming catastrophe if people didn't change their hearts. The visions persisted from 1981 to 1989. By the end of the decade the warnings were adamant: "Leave Rwanda." All 6 visionaries saw that a river of blood was coming with uncountable decapitated corpses. "Build a Church and call it Gathering of the Displaced." They were told not to pray for the death of one man, but his conversion. All knew it was the President, who the population hated and wanted to die. In 1994, the Presidential plane was shot down and then ensued 100 days of genocidal massacre killing nearly 1 million people, most hacked to death or decapitated with machetes.</p><p><img src="http://www.lindamelvern.com/images/april94/01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/special/photo/inferno/rwanda1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Prophecies have been a real part of the human experience for as long as recorded history. Nearly every spiritual teaching claims some form of Divine revelation, or communication from dimensionality higher than the sensual world. Skeptics would do well to stop trying to conform mystical experiences to mere brain chemistry, or degrading them as some category of mental illness. The primitive knowledge of modern neuroscience and psychiatry cannot effectively explain anomolous events in history such as the predictive novel "Futility: Or Wreck of the Titan." Nor can it relegate the Marian apparitions of Kibeho Rwanda to simple hallucination. </p><p></p><p>These things are too intelligent, too consistent, too meaningful to readily dismiss as coincidence. I don't have a problem with anomolous history because I believe in the reality of God. I believe what Gurbani teaches about the reality of other worlds, about the jeea, and the atma, and the mann, that the nature of spiritual perception is being grounded in the human body through the chakra system, and unfolded by opening of the dasm duar. The physical body aligns and conforms to a presumed chakra system. But the chakra system is metaphysical theory, it isn't physical. So we must be made of something beyond the merely physical, which would be believed if someone accepts the teaching of a jivatma.</p><p></p><p>There is logic and consistency and purpose behind the warnings and predictions related by visionaries and seers. There is a true spiritual message. Every modern warning has been unequivocally clear: "Pray for peace because great suffering is coming." "Pray for world peace and help those who suffer."</p><p></p><p><img src="http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/rwanda.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Can we really afford not to listen? Evil things happen to stir the conscience of the world. Spirituality is not about Divine intervention or dramatic miracles, which do occasionally occur. But it's about how we ourselves change and evolve as spiritual beings. The dukh of bad choices imprints itself on our psyche, on our jiva, and causes us to turn away from the evils within our own hearts which perpetuate destructiveness. It's a blackboard on which a spiritual lesson can be taught. Darkness exists to show everyone how beautiful is the light of mercy in comparison. It is the only thing powerful enough to break through the delusions of self-justification, greed and cruelty. Only love is stronger than death. And if someone thinks powerful predictions aren't being communicated in a way and symbolism which people can culturally and religiously understand, whether it is the Ganesha milk miracle or the Marian apparitions, he isn't being honest with the facts. </p><p></p><p>God is speaking to humanity in the way that will reach us. That is the nature of sarguna, it conforms to our expectations because it is intuitive perception within the cultural and religious context of our understanding. No human being with kalpas can possibly have experience of the Divine without misinterpretation. Is God male? Is God female? Does God have blue black skin like Krishna? No. Does the Divine conform to Catholic Christian theology? No. But human beings superimpose definitions and concepts on their supernatural experiences. One see's Durga Ma. One see the Virgin Mary. Another see's the Prophet Mohammed. But perhaps, it is something so beyond human description that words and concepts of mind simply dress up the unfathomable according to our expectations.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Iynyphb7sI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Iynyphb7sI</a></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebdgetQmUbA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebdgetQmUbA</a></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YXchKsOvA4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YXchKsOvA4</a></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su7qTVM_oG0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su7qTVM_oG0</a></p><p></p><p>Is God merely brain chemistry or hallucination? Or are human beings themselves completely disconnected from spiritual reality and sleepwalking in the Maya world of self-deception and destructiveness? If God is real, then it is clear He is trying to wake us up. All spiritual teaching says the same things. Be good. Do good. Pray. Connect with God. Turn away from selfishness and evil. Overcome hatred. Change who you are.</p><p></p><p>~Bhul chak maaf</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harjas Kaur Khalsa, post: 82383, member: 2125"] That perspective presupposes that what we can see of the physical universe is all that exists. It doesn't account for any other reality, or that the human being is multidimensional containing sheathes of energy and that the jivatman may not consist of physicality at all, but be a kind of energy matrix which forms the physical body based on patterns of consciousness. Spooky action at a distance. Non-locality. Quantum entanglement. Hidden variables. Superimpositions. Modern science cannot describe how consciousness works, or how two disconnected particles can communicate across space and time. Modern science cannot explain intuition or premonition or prediction in terms of standard models of the brain. What is required is for people to think outside of the box. To be willing to let go of the scientism which denies what it can't explain. But there have always been unusual events, predictions or strange prophecies downplayed or outright ignored by science which persist throughout human history suggesting there is a phenomena quite outside the box of the prevailing world-view. One of the key ways of determining madness from mastana, or kundalini awakening from simple schizophrenia is how it impacts other people and is not just a mental experience in isolation. It can't be a hallucination, disordered perception of an individual brain if can be caught on film, or tape recorded, or predicted years in advance with witnesses. When more than one person is having an experience, something interesting is happening. According to yogic theory, the body is composed of many layers besides the physical, subtle sheathes of dimensional vibration from the co{censored} material to the imperceptible. We can speak of pineal and pituitary glands, because yogic theory is actual science. There is a science of consciousness research and we can see how powerful changes in brain chemistry and consciousness can occur from certain practices such as pranayama and japping Gurmantara. Sadly, most accept uncritically the Western paradigm that a physical universe is all there is to existence. Just consider this question: By what mechanism do prophecies come true? Is there a collective unconscious of the world which can be accessed somehow? Is there something about parallel universes and alternate realities? Is something accessible to certain sensitive people able to move outside the limits of space and time? And before you would even consider the validity of such a question, the skeptics would have to honestly analyze how certain prophecies have come true. It is beyond coincidence that such accurate predictions could be mere hallucinations. Intuition. Psychic perception. Messages. Predictions. Prophecies. There is credible evidence that something beyond the merely physical operates in this world. [IMG]http://www.michaeljournal.org/images/Alphonsine.jpg[/IMG] Kibeho, Rwanda 6 visionaries began to receive visions of the Divine Mother warning of a coming catastrophe if people didn't change their hearts. The visions persisted from 1981 to 1989. By the end of the decade the warnings were adamant: "Leave Rwanda." All 6 visionaries saw that a river of blood was coming with uncountable decapitated corpses. "Build a Church and call it Gathering of the Displaced." They were told not to pray for the death of one man, but his conversion. All knew it was the President, who the population hated and wanted to die. In 1994, the Presidential plane was shot down and then ensued 100 days of genocidal massacre killing nearly 1 million people, most hacked to death or decapitated with machetes. [IMG]http://www.lindamelvern.com/images/april94/01.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/special/photo/inferno/rwanda1.jpg[/IMG] Prophecies have been a real part of the human experience for as long as recorded history. Nearly every spiritual teaching claims some form of Divine revelation, or communication from dimensionality higher than the sensual world. Skeptics would do well to stop trying to conform mystical experiences to mere brain chemistry, or degrading them as some category of mental illness. The primitive knowledge of modern neuroscience and psychiatry cannot effectively explain anomolous events in history such as the predictive novel "Futility: Or Wreck of the Titan." Nor can it relegate the Marian apparitions of Kibeho Rwanda to simple hallucination. These things are too intelligent, too consistent, too meaningful to readily dismiss as coincidence. I don't have a problem with anomolous history because I believe in the reality of God. I believe what Gurbani teaches about the reality of other worlds, about the jeea, and the atma, and the mann, that the nature of spiritual perception is being grounded in the human body through the chakra system, and unfolded by opening of the dasm duar. The physical body aligns and conforms to a presumed chakra system. But the chakra system is metaphysical theory, it isn't physical. So we must be made of something beyond the merely physical, which would be believed if someone accepts the teaching of a jivatma. There is logic and consistency and purpose behind the warnings and predictions related by visionaries and seers. There is a true spiritual message. Every modern warning has been unequivocally clear: "Pray for peace because great suffering is coming." "Pray for world peace and help those who suffer." [IMG]http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/rwanda.jpg[/IMG] Can we really afford not to listen? Evil things happen to stir the conscience of the world. Spirituality is not about Divine intervention or dramatic miracles, which do occasionally occur. But it's about how we ourselves change and evolve as spiritual beings. The dukh of bad choices imprints itself on our psyche, on our jiva, and causes us to turn away from the evils within our own hearts which perpetuate destructiveness. It's a blackboard on which a spiritual lesson can be taught. Darkness exists to show everyone how beautiful is the light of mercy in comparison. It is the only thing powerful enough to break through the delusions of self-justification, greed and cruelty. Only love is stronger than death. And if someone thinks powerful predictions aren't being communicated in a way and symbolism which people can culturally and religiously understand, whether it is the Ganesha milk miracle or the Marian apparitions, he isn't being honest with the facts. God is speaking to humanity in the way that will reach us. That is the nature of sarguna, it conforms to our expectations because it is intuitive perception within the cultural and religious context of our understanding. No human being with kalpas can possibly have experience of the Divine without misinterpretation. Is God male? Is God female? Does God have blue black skin like Krishna? No. Does the Divine conform to Catholic Christian theology? No. But human beings superimpose definitions and concepts on their supernatural experiences. One see's Durga Ma. One see the Virgin Mary. Another see's the Prophet Mohammed. But perhaps, it is something so beyond human description that words and concepts of mind simply dress up the unfathomable according to our expectations. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Iynyphb7sI[/url] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebdgetQmUbA[/url] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YXchKsOvA4[/url] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su7qTVM_oG0[/url] Is God merely brain chemistry or hallucination? Or are human beings themselves completely disconnected from spiritual reality and sleepwalking in the Maya world of self-deception and destructiveness? If God is real, then it is clear He is trying to wake us up. All spiritual teaching says the same things. Be good. Do good. Pray. Connect with God. Turn away from selfishness and evil. Overcome hatred. Change who you are. ~Bhul chak maaf [/QUOTE]
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