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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
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<blockquote data-quote="Brother Onam" data-source="post: 180088" data-attributes="member: 18170"><p>Thank you for your patience with me.</p><p>Here is what I'm seeing: We are on an 'island'. The island is on fire, not by 'act-of-god', but by our own doing. Everything we know, <em>everything</em>, all people, all friends, family,<em> all</em> children, all animals, all history everywhere, all architecture, all culture, philosophies, traditions, all music of every kind, every river, flower, oceans, all beauty... are about to be destroyed. Not metaphorically, but truly, genuinely destroyed. Forever. </p><p>Tigers are dying (of the 7 types of tigers, three have been eliminated during the last 40-50 years, and of the remaining four types, three are virtually extinct; the great Bengal tiger is barely hanging on), Orangutangs are dying; their last remaining habitat, the rainforests of Borneo, are being felled unrelentingly, Gorillas are dying; of the tens of thousands that roamed the forests of Central Africa once, perhaps less than 400 remain there. Extinction, as they say, is forever. As impoverished Africans slave away in hellish 'mines' to extract minerals so desired for the production of cellphones and computors, they will kill any gorilla they can find for cheap 'bushmeat'. Salamanders are dying, bats are dying, honeybees are dying, tapirs are dying, Pandas are almost extinct in the wild; Narwhales and Blue Whales are dying, Black rhinos are dying, coral reefs and the very oceans themselves are dying. </p><p>Humans, governed by a strange spirit of madness, have become a disease to the Earth. Wherever we settle, like a cancer, our surroundings begin to die.</p><p></p><p>"The planet is dying. It may already be too late to recover. The Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us. We are a disease on the face of the Earth. We should be syphilis with a conscience -stop reproducing." -Kurt Vonnegut</p><p></p><p>If I am right, and not imagining it or exaggerating it, we are witnessing and participating in the utter destruction of Har Har's blessed green Earth.</p><p>The reason I'm so at a loss is because, if you observe, if you study, if you consider, (which is all I do -I'm not very bright, but I always observe and consider), and we get some awareness of what's going on, we would be alarmed -no, more than alarmed, <em>outraged</em>, no, more than outraged, in a frenzy! to halt this steamroller. Arresting this plunge would be paramount; above all other issues. Not because this is my pet interest and I want everyone else to see it that way too, but because if I am <em>not</em> deluded, there is no higher matter now.</p><p> And in light of that, when I look at something like McDonalds, -if you consider-, it is impossible to look past the wickedness of a business such as this. I don't mean they are a generally benign operation that has some unavoidable negatives that come with it, like any big business. I mean, in a sane world, they would be seen as wicked from the ground up. The torment and horror that goes on in their (hidden, of course) mass-killing plants all day long, every day, the environmental destruction that they necessarily perpetrate, the catastrophic pollution they generate (<em>one</em> styrofoam cup or plastic bottle is an offense to our Mother Earth), the nasty, mass-produced garbage 'food' they sell... on and on. </p><p>The point I'm making is, to me this is all clear as day. This strikes me as an intelligent forum. If so many voices are arrayed against me, more or less defending something like McDonalds, or downplaying the significance of our global demolition, -something that is so indisputably, irrefutably<em> wrong</em> to me; well, I question my sanity. I genuinely wonder if I may be insane now. I'm not being sarcastic. </p><p>Again, thank you for your patience with me, and I sincerely apologize for the many words. </p><p> Onam Balwant Singh</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brother Onam, post: 180088, member: 18170"] Thank you for your patience with me. Here is what I'm seeing: We are on an 'island'. The island is on fire, not by 'act-of-god', but by our own doing. Everything we know, [I]everything[/I], all people, all friends, family,[I] all[/I] children, all animals, all history everywhere, all architecture, all culture, philosophies, traditions, all music of every kind, every river, flower, oceans, all beauty... are about to be destroyed. Not metaphorically, but truly, genuinely destroyed. Forever. Tigers are dying (of the 7 types of tigers, three have been eliminated during the last 40-50 years, and of the remaining four types, three are virtually extinct; the great Bengal tiger is barely hanging on), Orangutangs are dying; their last remaining habitat, the rainforests of Borneo, are being felled unrelentingly, Gorillas are dying; of the tens of thousands that roamed the forests of Central Africa once, perhaps less than 400 remain there. Extinction, as they say, is forever. As impoverished Africans slave away in hellish 'mines' to extract minerals so desired for the production of cellphones and computors, they will kill any gorilla they can find for cheap 'bushmeat'. Salamanders are dying, bats are dying, honeybees are dying, tapirs are dying, Pandas are almost extinct in the wild; Narwhales and Blue Whales are dying, Black rhinos are dying, coral reefs and the very oceans themselves are dying. Humans, governed by a strange spirit of madness, have become a disease to the Earth. Wherever we settle, like a cancer, our surroundings begin to die. "The planet is dying. It may already be too late to recover. The Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us. We are a disease on the face of the Earth. We should be syphilis with a conscience -stop reproducing." -Kurt Vonnegut If I am right, and not imagining it or exaggerating it, we are witnessing and participating in the utter destruction of Har Har's blessed green Earth. The reason I'm so at a loss is because, if you observe, if you study, if you consider, (which is all I do -I'm not very bright, but I always observe and consider), and we get some awareness of what's going on, we would be alarmed -no, more than alarmed, [I]outraged[/I], no, more than outraged, in a frenzy! to halt this steamroller. Arresting this plunge would be paramount; above all other issues. Not because this is my pet interest and I want everyone else to see it that way too, but because if I am [I]not[/I] deluded, there is no higher matter now. And in light of that, when I look at something like McDonalds, -if you consider-, it is impossible to look past the wickedness of a business such as this. I don't mean they are a generally benign operation that has some unavoidable negatives that come with it, like any big business. I mean, in a sane world, they would be seen as wicked from the ground up. The torment and horror that goes on in their (hidden, of course) mass-killing plants all day long, every day, the environmental destruction that they necessarily perpetrate, the catastrophic pollution they generate ([I]one[/I] styrofoam cup or plastic bottle is an offense to our Mother Earth), the nasty, mass-produced garbage 'food' they sell... on and on. The point I'm making is, to me this is all clear as day. This strikes me as an intelligent forum. If so many voices are arrayed against me, more or less defending something like McDonalds, or downplaying the significance of our global demolition, -something that is so indisputably, irrefutably[I] wrong[/I] to me; well, I question my sanity. I genuinely wonder if I may be insane now. I'm not being sarcastic. Again, thank you for your patience with me, and I sincerely apologize for the many words. Onam Balwant Singh [/QUOTE]
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