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Gurbani (347-348)
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Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
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Gurbani (537-556)
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Gurbani (557-564)
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Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
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Gurbani (595-634)
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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)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
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Gurbani (721-727)
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Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
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Suchajee (762)
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Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
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Gurbani (795-831)
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Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
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Gurbani (975-980)
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Gurbani (984-988)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
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Gurbani (1319-23)
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Gurbani (1327-1341)
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Gurbani (1352-53)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_member15" data-source="post: 164502" data-attributes="member: 17438"><p>A great and perceptive question brother/sister Ishna :sippingcoffeemunda:</p><p> </p><p>Indeed evil is the absence of good, and God did not <em>cause nor create evil; it is rather a lack or deficiency of his created natural order </em>- however he is just as much present in evil acts and the people committing them as he is anywhere. There is no duality. God is One. That does not mean only that he is a <em>Single Being but rather that he is Existence Itself, Being Itself, ISNESS. So yes God is present in the absence of good. </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"...God presents himself in the inmost depths of my soul. I understand not only that he is present, but also how he is present. I have seen the One who is, and how He is the Being of all creatures. God is present in everything that exists, in a devil and a good angel, in heaven and hell, in good deeds and in adultery and murder, in the beautiful and the ugly. Therfore, while I am in this Truth, I take as much delight in seeing and understanding his presence in a devil and the act of adultery as I do in an angel and a good deed. The world is pregnant with God...He who loves with not only a part of himself, but the whole, transforms himself into the thing beloved..."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><em>- Blessed Angela of Foligna (c. 1248 – 1309), Catholic mystic</em></strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The whole point, nonetheless, is that evil is not a <em>thing; it does not actually exist. It is not even nothingness - which means not being anything created - but it is actually not real. There is no evil. Evil acts are acts where goodness is absent. By this I do not mean nothingness, but rather that it is a person who lacks what is truly proper to him and God-given, to be good. </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Is God in darkness? Surely, but he did not create darkness. He created light, and he created space, and darkness is a space which lacks light, and so the human eye perceives it as a thing, when it is in fact not real. </em></p><p> </p><p><em>So God is fully present in the space which lacks light but he is not present in darkness as a concept because darkness is a human seeing that space which lacks light and wrongly perceiving it as a thing in opposition to light when it is in fact only a space lacking light. </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Darkness is not a creation of God but a subjective human experience of the lack of light in a place. In the same way, evil is the subjective human experience of a lack of good in a person or situation, the good being natural and God-created just like light. </em></p><p> </p><p><em>The human mind misunderstands this and thinks that there is a thing called darkness which is the opposite from light, just like the colours white and black, and so the erroneous belief in "Dualism" is born - Light vs Darkness, Good God vs Bad God (devil), rather than perceiving the underlying unity of all reality in God, in Oneness, in wholeness. </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Evil is the lack of the good created by God, just as darkness is the lack of light created by God, and humans perceive this lack as "real" when it does not actually exist. </em> <em>Evil is only a privation (lack, absence) <strong>in</strong> that which is good and thus evil is not created by God. Evil is only </em><em><span style="color: black">privatio boni</span></em><em> or an absence of good such as in d<strong>is</strong>cord, <strong>in</strong>justice, and <strong>loss</strong> of life or of liberty</em></p><p> </p><p><em>We can say that God created the <strong>ability </strong>for darkness to be perceived by humans in that he created space and light, which means that lack of light in a place will appear as darkness to sensible beings. However he did not actually create darkness. </em></p><p> </p><p><em>In the same way we can say that God created the <strong>ability for </strong>evil to be perceived by humans in that he created goodness and freedom of volition in humans, so that they can freely return his love, and if humans lack the goodness proper to them through their <strong>"Me" becoming disengaged from their God given "I" (to use brother ambarsaria's excellent phrasing) </strong>then they perceive this self-will and rejection of God's will as "evil". </em></p><p> </p><p><em>God thus created the potentiality of darkness being perceived by humans, and the potentiality of evil being perceived by humans but he did not create evil or darkness in themselves because these are not real created 'things' but the lack of real created things in space-time and as perceived within space-time by human minds. </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_member15, post: 164502, member: 17438"] A great and perceptive question brother/sister Ishna :sippingcoffeemunda: Indeed evil is the absence of good, and God did not [I]cause nor create evil; it is rather a lack or deficiency of his created natural order [/I]- however he is just as much present in evil acts and the people committing them as he is anywhere. There is no duality. God is One. That does not mean only that he is a [I]Single Being but rather that he is Existence Itself, Being Itself, ISNESS. So yes God is present in the absence of good. [/I] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial]"...God presents himself in the inmost depths of my soul. I understand not only that he is present, but also how he is present. I have seen the One who is, and how He is the Being of all creatures. God is present in everything that exists, in a devil and a good angel, in heaven and hell, in good deeds and in adultery and murder, in the beautiful and the ugly. Therfore, while I am in this Truth, I take as much delight in seeing and understanding his presence in a devil and the act of adultery as I do in an angel and a good deed. The world is pregnant with God...He who loves with not only a part of himself, but the whole, transforms himself into the thing beloved..."[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial][B][I]- Blessed Angela of Foligna (c. 1248 – 1309), Catholic mystic[/I][/B][/FONT][/SIZE] The whole point, nonetheless, is that evil is not a [I]thing; it does not actually exist. It is not even nothingness - which means not being anything created - but it is actually not real. There is no evil. Evil acts are acts where goodness is absent. By this I do not mean nothingness, but rather that it is a person who lacks what is truly proper to him and God-given, to be good. [/I] [I]Is God in darkness? Surely, but he did not create darkness. He created light, and he created space, and darkness is a space which lacks light, and so the human eye perceives it as a thing, when it is in fact not real. [/I] [I]So God is fully present in the space which lacks light but he is not present in darkness as a concept because darkness is a human seeing that space which lacks light and wrongly perceiving it as a thing in opposition to light when it is in fact only a space lacking light. [/I] [I]Darkness is not a creation of God but a subjective human experience of the lack of light in a place. In the same way, evil is the subjective human experience of a lack of good in a person or situation, the good being natural and God-created just like light. [/I] [I]The human mind misunderstands this and thinks that there is a thing called darkness which is the opposite from light, just like the colours white and black, and so the erroneous belief in "Dualism" is born - Light vs Darkness, Good God vs Bad God (devil), rather than perceiving the underlying unity of all reality in God, in Oneness, in wholeness. [/I] [I]Evil is the lack of the good created by God, just as darkness is the lack of light created by God, and humans perceive this lack as "real" when it does not actually exist. [/I] [I]Evil is only a privation (lack, absence) [B]in[/B] that which is good and thus evil is not created by God. Evil is only [/I][I][COLOR=black]privatio boni[/COLOR][/I][I] or an absence of good such as in d[B]is[/B]cord, [B]in[/B]justice, and [B]loss[/B] of life or of liberty[/I] [I]We can say that God created the [B]ability [/B]for darkness to be perceived by humans in that he created space and light, which means that lack of light in a place will appear as darkness to sensible beings. However he did not actually create darkness. [/I] [I]In the same way we can say that God created the [B]ability for [/B]evil to be perceived by humans in that he created goodness and freedom of volition in humans, so that they can freely return his love, and if humans lack the goodness proper to them through their [B]"Me" becoming disengaged from their God given "I" (to use brother ambarsaria's excellent phrasing) [/B]then they perceive this self-will and rejection of God's will as "evil". [/I] [I]God thus created the potentiality of darkness being perceived by humans, and the potentiality of evil being perceived by humans but he did not create evil or darkness in themselves because these are not real created 'things' but the lack of real created things in space-time and as perceived within space-time by human minds. [/I] [/QUOTE]
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