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Bara Maha (133-136)
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Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
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Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
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Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
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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)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
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Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
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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)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_member15" data-source="post: 161597" data-attributes="member: 17438"><p>My dear brother Ambarsaria peacesign</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"...There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love..." </span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-size: 12px">- </span></em><em>1 John 4:18</em> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I'm back! </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I just wanted to comment a little more, first of all, on the last part of your post: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is a very interesting observation. Is the God of Christianity - and indeed Abrahamic, Zoroastrian and other traditions - "vengeful" and "un-loving"? </p><p> </p><p>The first thing to understand is that in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism, Hell is not a "place". There is no spatial place in time and space were dwell "damned people". That is a figment of cultural myth and popular folklore rather than of dedicated theology. Hell is considered by Catholicism to be a "state of being", a mental state. It can occur both in this temporal life and in the afterlife - although its the latter that receives the most notice, by Christians and non-Christians alike. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"...The images of hell that Sacred Scripture presents to us must be correctly interpreted. They show the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God. <strong>Rather than a <em>place</em>, hell indicates the <em><u>state</u></em></strong> of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy...[It is] a condition resulting from attitudes and actions which people adopt in this life...The thought of hell — and even less the improper use of biblical images — must not create anxiety or despair..." </span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-size: 12px">- Blessed Pope John Paul II (General Audience, July 28, 1999)</span></em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>"...W</em>e must see that hell is not an object that is 'full' or 'empty' of human individuals, but a possibility that is not 'created' by God but in any case by the free individuals who choose it..." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>- <span style="color: #0066cc"><span style="color: black">Hans Urs von Balthasar</span> </span>(1905-1988), Catholic theologian</em> </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>One could think of the medeival Church art based upon Dante's "Inferno" with its terrifying depiction of the various spheres of hell. </p><p> </p><p>However, none of this is derived from the Bible or even Sacred Tradition. </p><p> </p><p>Its popular folklore, although prevailing in the cultural imagimnation and very deep-set. </p><p> </p><p>Rather its based upon two sources: the apochryphal "<em>Apocalypse of Peter</em>" from the third century AD and the depictions of hell in the Qur'an, which was translated into Latin near the beginning of the Second Millenium. </p><p> </p><p>The Bible speaks seldom of "hell", unlike the Qur'an - in which it is mentioned nearly on every page - and when it does so, like with heaven, it is never spoken of in the literalistic manner of the Islamic hell (a real, literal place of torture wherew people drink poisonous water, have their skin burned off and various other horrors). </p><p> </p><p>Much of the understanding of "hell" is not biblical but part of the cultural imagination of the Western world. </p><p> </p><p>Certainly there is no concept of hell in Judaism or in the Old Testament, which accounts for about a third or even quarter of the bulk of the Bible. </p><p> </p><p>In the New Testament we find many passages such as the following: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"...But I say to you, <strong>Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for <u><span style="color: red">he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous</span></u></strong>. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect..." </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-size: 12px">- Jesus Christ (Gospel of Matthew 5:44-48)</span></em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>God makes his sun rise on evil and good without partiality and with equal love and care? And furthermore this selfless, impartial, open-ended, universally applicable love is the justification for the need of Christians to love their enemies? </em></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is also important to know that the state of "hell" is not a state in which the person is deprived of God's love. When we die, we are all engulfed by the same flame of Divine Love. It is the state of our soul that will determine how we experience that flame. </p><p> </p><p>This was explained by Saint Isaac the Syrian: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"...Those tormented in hell are tormented by the invasion of love. What is there more bitter and violent than the pains of love? Those who feel they have sinned against love bear in themselves a damnation much heavier than the most dreaded punishments. The suffering with which sinning against love afflicts the heart is more keenly felt than any other torment. It is absurd to assume that the sinners in hell are deprived of God’s love. Love is offered impartially. But by its very power it acts in two ways. It torments sinners, as happens here on earth when we are tormented by the presence of a friend to whom we have been unfaithful. And it gives joy to those who have been faithful..." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>- Saint Isaac the Syrian (died 700 AD)</em></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Hell is not something that God "does" to a person. Jesus told us that heaven is "within us" and so naturally hell is too. Rather hell is a state of mind into which a person wilfully chooses to become immersed in. God's love offers that person a release from the agony of trying to separate Himself from the love of God. </p><p> </p><p>God is not a dictator. The person must freely choose to embrace the love of God. </p><p> </p><p>Hell is a self-willed desire to be separate from God. It is the result of a deliberate, clear-sighted rejection of our Creator by those who choose to live for themselves in "splendid" isolation. There is great pleasure and satisfaction in being absolute master of oneself and having total independence - and yet there is a terrible consequence. To worship oneself is lunacy because the self is never satisfied with itself. In St. Augustine's words "<em>You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you</em>." </p><p> </p><p>And so this obsession with Self, this idol-worship of oneself to the detriment of others, forgetting that humanity is one and made in the Image of the One God and that we all rise and fall as a unity, has the inevitable consequence of being unsatisfactory. We can never be satisfied wholly with ourself, because this is of course an illusion. No human being is sufficient unto Himself. He lives for others, he lives to move beyond Himself, to deny Himself and become one with God in the unity of the human family. </p><p> </p><p>And so this state of mind, this egoism and exaltation of oneself, this neglect of God and of other people, ultimately leads to dissatisfaction, to "restlessness" because man never be at rest or at peace so long as he does not find Himself - his true self - in God. When we find God and become one with Him, when we allow his Divine Light to envelope our whole being and rise again to our true, original nature and source in the divine - then we find peace. This is heaven. </p><p> </p><p>As Pope Pius XII explained in 1939: "<em>In the light of this unity of all mankind, which exists in law and in fact, individuals do not feel themselves isolated units, like grains of sand, but united by the very force of their nature and by their internal destiny, into an organic, harmonious mutual relationship which varies with the changing of times". </em></p><p> </p><p>And so man is not satisfied with Himself and the attempt to separate and deprive Himself of the love of God. There is no satisfaction in this. He will be restless and unsatisfied because the only satisfaction and rest that can be found is in God. </p><p> </p><p>Hell and Heaven are not different places. People will not be sent one way and others another. There is no time or space in the infinite, eternal, unfamothable emptiness of God. Hell and Heaven are both experiences of the same single reality: God. It is one's state of mind/soul which determines how one experiences God's love in the afterlife, as a hell or a heaven, just as in this life. </p><p> </p><p>Much love peacesign</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_member15, post: 161597, member: 17438"] My dear brother Ambarsaria peacesign [SIZE=3]"...There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love..." [/SIZE] [I][SIZE=3]- [/SIZE][/I][I]1 John 4:18[/I] I'm back! I just wanted to comment a little more, first of all, on the last part of your post: This is a very interesting observation. Is the God of Christianity - and indeed Abrahamic, Zoroastrian and other traditions - "vengeful" and "un-loving"? The first thing to understand is that in Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism, Hell is not a "place". There is no spatial place in time and space were dwell "damned people". That is a figment of cultural myth and popular folklore rather than of dedicated theology. Hell is considered by Catholicism to be a "state of being", a mental state. It can occur both in this temporal life and in the afterlife - although its the latter that receives the most notice, by Christians and non-Christians alike. [SIZE=3]"...The images of hell that Sacred Scripture presents to us must be correctly interpreted. They show the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God. [B]Rather than a [I]place[/I], hell indicates the [I][U]state[/U][/I][/B] of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy...[It is] a condition resulting from attitudes and actions which people adopt in this life...The thought of hell — and even less the improper use of biblical images — must not create anxiety or despair..." [/SIZE] [I][SIZE=3]- Blessed Pope John Paul II (General Audience, July 28, 1999)[/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=3][I]"...W[/I]e must see that hell is not an object that is 'full' or 'empty' of human individuals, but a possibility that is not 'created' by God but in any case by the free individuals who choose it..." [/SIZE] [SIZE=3][I]- [COLOR=#0066cc][COLOR=black]Hans Urs von Balthasar[/COLOR] [/COLOR](1905-1988), Catholic theologian[/I] [/SIZE] One could think of the medeival Church art based upon Dante's "Inferno" with its terrifying depiction of the various spheres of hell. However, none of this is derived from the Bible or even Sacred Tradition. Its popular folklore, although prevailing in the cultural imagimnation and very deep-set. Rather its based upon two sources: the apochryphal "[I]Apocalypse of Peter[/I]" from the third century AD and the depictions of hell in the Qur'an, which was translated into Latin near the beginning of the Second Millenium. The Bible speaks seldom of "hell", unlike the Qur'an - in which it is mentioned nearly on every page - and when it does so, like with heaven, it is never spoken of in the literalistic manner of the Islamic hell (a real, literal place of torture wherew people drink poisonous water, have their skin burned off and various other horrors). Much of the understanding of "hell" is not biblical but part of the cultural imagination of the Western world. Certainly there is no concept of hell in Judaism or in the Old Testament, which accounts for about a third or even quarter of the bulk of the Bible. In the New Testament we find many passages such as the following: [SIZE=3]"...But I say to you, [B]Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for [U][COLOR=red]he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous[/COLOR][/U][/B]. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect..." [/SIZE] [I][SIZE=3]- Jesus Christ (Gospel of Matthew 5:44-48)[/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=3][SIZE=2][I]God makes his sun rise on evil and good without partiality and with equal love and care? And furthermore this selfless, impartial, open-ended, universally applicable love is the justification for the need of Christians to love their enemies? [/I][/SIZE][/SIZE] It is also important to know that the state of "hell" is not a state in which the person is deprived of God's love. When we die, we are all engulfed by the same flame of Divine Love. It is the state of our soul that will determine how we experience that flame. This was explained by Saint Isaac the Syrian: [SIZE=3]"...Those tormented in hell are tormented by the invasion of love. What is there more bitter and violent than the pains of love? Those who feel they have sinned against love bear in themselves a damnation much heavier than the most dreaded punishments. The suffering with which sinning against love afflicts the heart is more keenly felt than any other torment. It is absurd to assume that the sinners in hell are deprived of God’s love. Love is offered impartially. But by its very power it acts in two ways. It torments sinners, as happens here on earth when we are tormented by the presence of a friend to whom we have been unfaithful. And it gives joy to those who have been faithful..." [/SIZE] [SIZE=3][I]- Saint Isaac the Syrian (died 700 AD)[/I][/SIZE] Hell is not something that God "does" to a person. Jesus told us that heaven is "within us" and so naturally hell is too. Rather hell is a state of mind into which a person wilfully chooses to become immersed in. God's love offers that person a release from the agony of trying to separate Himself from the love of God. God is not a dictator. The person must freely choose to embrace the love of God. Hell is a self-willed desire to be separate from God. It is the result of a deliberate, clear-sighted rejection of our Creator by those who choose to live for themselves in "splendid" isolation. There is great pleasure and satisfaction in being absolute master of oneself and having total independence - and yet there is a terrible consequence. To worship oneself is lunacy because the self is never satisfied with itself. In St. Augustine's words "[I]You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you[/I]." And so this obsession with Self, this idol-worship of oneself to the detriment of others, forgetting that humanity is one and made in the Image of the One God and that we all rise and fall as a unity, has the inevitable consequence of being unsatisfactory. We can never be satisfied wholly with ourself, because this is of course an illusion. No human being is sufficient unto Himself. He lives for others, he lives to move beyond Himself, to deny Himself and become one with God in the unity of the human family. And so this state of mind, this egoism and exaltation of oneself, this neglect of God and of other people, ultimately leads to dissatisfaction, to "restlessness" because man never be at rest or at peace so long as he does not find Himself - his true self - in God. When we find God and become one with Him, when we allow his Divine Light to envelope our whole being and rise again to our true, original nature and source in the divine - then we find peace. This is heaven. As Pope Pius XII explained in 1939: "[I]In the light of this unity of all mankind, which exists in law and in fact, individuals do not feel themselves isolated units, like grains of sand, but united by the very force of their nature and by their internal destiny, into an organic, harmonious mutual relationship which varies with the changing of times". [/I] And so man is not satisfied with Himself and the attempt to separate and deprive Himself of the love of God. There is no satisfaction in this. He will be restless and unsatisfied because the only satisfaction and rest that can be found is in God. Hell and Heaven are not different places. People will not be sent one way and others another. There is no time or space in the infinite, eternal, unfamothable emptiness of God. Hell and Heaven are both experiences of the same single reality: God. It is one's state of mind/soul which determines how one experiences God's love in the afterlife, as a hell or a heaven, just as in this life. Much love peacesign [/QUOTE]
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