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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="Sinister" data-source="post: 53737" data-attributes="member: 2684"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Ok I'll do the best I can with the limited time I have.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">From the looks of it, your trying to fuse morality with biology which science usually does with the study of psychology and psychiatry. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Anthropology and sociology also play a key role in understanding the development of human morality.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">These are wildly wide fields of study and cannot be summarized in a post on the Internet. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">My suggestion to you is if you truly are interested in viewpoint of biological evolution and other psychoanalysis blabber then go to take schooling in those fields and make up your mind. Trust me its worth it! (interesting research out there)</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: navy">“Later many other scientitsts believed humans evolved and so do universe and evolved out of nothing which suggests 'No God'.”</span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">-that statement is false…scientists do not claim that…obviously something cannot evolve from nothing (by the shear definition). This statement violates the laws of thermodynamics (I think the 3rd law). The physical matter/energy was always present in a ‘sink’. What varies is entropy or the arrangement of energy/matter, which caused evolution (again sweeping generalizations). </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Was this by chance or by choice? … chance (according to evolutionary theory). From a molecular and chemical point of view evolution makes COMPLETE SENSE, with very little loop holes in the science.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I suggest reading Darwin’s original work “The Origin of Species” which he wrote later on in his career (what he is famous for). Although it is outdated literature it will help form the basis of your understanding in evolutionary thought. (note: it is extremely boring literature but necessary if you want to go on about this subject further)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: navy">If we, for instance, believe in 'No God' thory then fundamental Question is why humans? Why only humans evolved to this level of consciouness and not any other animals? And if we go back to millions of years inspecting human fossils by carbon dating it suggests humans were humans even millions of millions year ago which mean we evolved morally than from other forms. Also 'By Chance Creation & Evolution' without any 'Godly Intervention' can't evolve morally as there is nothing like 'Moralilty' at genetic level. So this theory takes us back to 'God'</span>.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">THAT IS A BIGGGG QUESTION WITH MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS AND VEIWPOINTS!!!! </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">A lot of it is beyond my grasp, probably any evolutionary scientists grasp as well.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: red">THERE IS MORALITY AT THE GENETIC LEVEL…..</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: red">Humans are different from their primate cousins because of something known as <span style="color: navy"><u><strong>“DIVERGEANT EVOLUTION”</strong></u></span> (read up on this…because I simply do not know your biology background). The theory helps explain how humans have become, in David T Suzuki terms, a “superspecies”.</span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Emotional feelings are strongly linked to both biology and morality, so that is where you should start your research. Emotional response is the fundamental link that guides morality through physical explanations. Emotions can also influence cognitive thoughts/logic. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Studies on cognition are still being conducted and neurologists are having a great amount of fun unlocking the secrets of our complex mind. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">But to assume that there is no link between biology and morality is inaccurate and discrediting. <span style="color: red">What evolutionary biologists do understand is that primates will cooperate and limit their “Id” behaviour for security/predictability and gain to ensure a maximum survival technique. THIS IS KNOWN AS <strong><u><span style="color: navy">THE “ZERO SUM GAME”</span></u></strong> (simple but very effective model that helps explain how morality has developed in mammals) (AGAIN READ UP ON THIS TOPIC…VERY INTERESTING…ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL IF YOU WISH TO CONTINUE WITH SCIENCE).</span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="color: red">Co-operation for survival forms the basis/fundamentals of all moral thought….Once we became a dominant species (superspecies) we developed larger societies and higher cohesiveness (more interdependence) which required the development of further morality so not to hinder the Co-operation efforts within society and jeopardize survival. </span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Continous modification led us to where we are today in terms of morality…and morality continues to shift (READ ANYHING BY NIETZSCHE). </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">We start with biology; that forms the fundamentals…. Shift over to emotion…..shift over to societal social strain theory and you get a vague image of how morality comes about.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">All morality is dependant upon memory of tasks, events, situations, scenarious….these are all processed in a synaptic/chemical/molecular level. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Although today morality cannot be explained through Brain synaptic pathways…we understand that it is a by-product of emotion … which can be explained, to some degree, physiologically. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">regards</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sinister</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sinister, post: 53737, member: 2684"] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Ok I'll do the best I can with the limited time I have.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]From the looks of it, your trying to fuse morality with biology which science usually does with the study of psychology and psychiatry. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Anthropology and sociology also play a key role in understanding the development of human morality.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]These are wildly wide fields of study and cannot be summarized in a post on the Internet. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]My suggestion to you is if you truly are interested in viewpoint of biological evolution and other psychoanalysis blabber then go to take schooling in those fields and make up your mind. Trust me its worth it! (interesting research out there)[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=navy]“Later many other scientitsts believed humans evolved and so do universe and evolved out of nothing which suggests 'No God'.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]-that statement is false…scientists do not claim that…obviously something cannot evolve from nothing (by the shear definition). This statement violates the laws of thermodynamics (I think the 3rd law). The physical matter/energy was always present in a ‘sink’. What varies is entropy or the arrangement of energy/matter, which caused evolution (again sweeping generalizations). [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Was this by chance or by choice? … chance (according to evolutionary theory). From a molecular and chemical point of view evolution makes COMPLETE SENSE, with very little loop holes in the science.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]I suggest reading Darwin’s original work “The Origin of Species” which he wrote later on in his career (what he is famous for). Although it is outdated literature it will help form the basis of your understanding in evolutionary thought. (note: it is extremely boring literature but necessary if you want to go on about this subject further)[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=navy] [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=navy]If we, for instance, believe in 'No God' thory then fundamental Question is why humans? Why only humans evolved to this level of consciouness and not any other animals? And if we go back to millions of years inspecting human fossils by carbon dating it suggests humans were humans even millions of millions year ago which mean we evolved morally than from other forms. Also 'By Chance Creation & Evolution' without any 'Godly Intervention' can't evolve morally as there is nothing like 'Moralilty' at genetic level. So this theory takes us back to 'God'[/COLOR].[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]THAT IS A BIGGGG QUESTION WITH MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS AND VEIWPOINTS!!!! [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]A lot of it is beyond my grasp, probably any evolutionary scientists grasp as well.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=red]THERE IS MORALITY AT THE GENETIC LEVEL…..[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=red]Humans are different from their primate cousins because of something known as [COLOR=navy][U][B]“DIVERGEANT EVOLUTION”[/B][/U][/COLOR] (read up on this…because I simply do not know your biology background). The theory helps explain how humans have become, in David T Suzuki terms, a “superspecies”.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Emotional feelings are strongly linked to both biology and morality, so that is where you should start your research. Emotional response is the fundamental link that guides morality through physical explanations. Emotions can also influence cognitive thoughts/logic. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Studies on cognition are still being conducted and neurologists are having a great amount of fun unlocking the secrets of our complex mind. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]But to assume that there is no link between biology and morality is inaccurate and discrediting. [COLOR=red]What evolutionary biologists do understand is that primates will cooperate and limit their “Id” behaviour for security/predictability and gain to ensure a maximum survival technique. THIS IS KNOWN AS [B][U][COLOR=navy]THE “ZERO SUM GAME”[/COLOR][/U][/B] (simple but very effective model that helps explain how morality has developed in mammals) (AGAIN READ UP ON THIS TOPIC…VERY INTERESTING…ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL IF YOU WISH TO CONTINUE WITH SCIENCE).[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [COLOR=red]Co-operation for survival forms the basis/fundamentals of all moral thought….Once we became a dominant species (superspecies) we developed larger societies and higher cohesiveness (more interdependence) which required the development of further morality so not to hinder the Co-operation efforts within society and jeopardize survival. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Continous modification led us to where we are today in terms of morality…and morality continues to shift (READ ANYHING BY NIETZSCHE). [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]We start with biology; that forms the fundamentals…. Shift over to emotion…..shift over to societal social strain theory and you get a vague image of how morality comes about.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]All morality is dependant upon memory of tasks, events, situations, scenarious….these are all processed in a synaptic/chemical/molecular level. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Although today morality cannot be explained through Brain synaptic pathways…we understand that it is a by-product of emotion … which can be explained, to some degree, physiologically. [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]regards[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Sinister[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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