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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)
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Gaathaa Mahala 5
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Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
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<blockquote data-quote="KulwantK" data-source="post: 73234" data-attributes="member: 5343"><p>Sat Nam and Greetings to all!</p><p>There are some very good points raised here. However, I highly doubt that most everyone who has been posting on this topic could live as if we were all back in the 16th century. Most people do not know how to grow food, and you would have to know that, and how to hunt and fish if you could not grow enough food. We are used to travelling around in a matter of hours, not days, weeks, months, or years, as people did back then. Then again, much as I deplore many of the practices of modern medicine, most of us would not have made it out of childhood without many of the modern medicines, and our parents might not have made it out of their childhoods. Most of us are used to the instantly available, consumerist society we find ourselves in. Indeed, look at us all- we are posting on the Internet! We are used to talking on telephones! Imagine- you can press a few buttons on a device, and you could be talking to your next-door neighbor, or someone half the world away. We have washing machines, televisions, cars, buses, planes, and all manner of transport. How many of you can really ride a horse? I mean really ride- not just sit there hoping the horse will not sense your secret apprehensions and throw you off. How many of us can make candles, soap, mend fences of whatever type, set broken bones, can fruit, hunt, grow fruits and vegetables, or walk 20 miles at a stretch? Not many of us can do all this and more.</p><p> So, no, I do not like the negative impacts on our environment that industriallization has caused, but I can look at some of the amazing technologies for producing power such as solar, wind and water actions such as have been being used in places like the Netherlands. Such technologies rarely make it into the news because the big power companies that make so much money do not want us off the grid. Then they would lose money. Back in the 1930's and '40's inventors like Nicola Tesla came up with free energy devices, which various govts then banned and secreted away. How would what we call cities look today if we could do things without producing so much pollution? Would they really be that big? Probably not. </p><p> When you get really right down to it, most people would not wish to give up their creature comforts that they have become accustomed to, and I must say I can understand that. There is no reason why any of what we call the First World countries should lower their standards of living to that of the poorest country in the world, where people live in ditches and half the time eat dirt because they are too poor to get anything else, and they have lost the ability to farm the land. This is a small country in Africa, by the way, a land which has been exploited almost to death- by, interestingly enough, mostly older white guys. Perhaps it behooves us to seek better and cleaner ways of utilizing technology, clean up the messes we have all contributed to simply by living in industrialized societies, and assist those that are less fortunate to lift themselves up. Debasing ourselves to the lowest common denominator would serve no purpose whatsoever. Regarding the recycling of consumer goods, there are, happily, technologies currently being developed that can recycle these items without so much pollution being produced in the process.</p><p> One of my main points in this post is that all the above posts are so pessimistic and doomsday oriented. I am rather tired of that. We get it in the news often enough, and it is designed, yes, you read rightly, designed to produce exactly that effect. Why? Because then when you are told you shall pay higher taxes to supposedly clean up the environment, you will not even think to protest, much less attempt to find out where that money really goes. </p><p> So before you go into a knee-jerk reactionary mode upon reading this post, stop, and think. God and Guru gave us brains for a reason!</p><p>Wahe Guru-</p><p>Kulwant</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KulwantK, post: 73234, member: 5343"] Sat Nam and Greetings to all! There are some very good points raised here. However, I highly doubt that most everyone who has been posting on this topic could live as if we were all back in the 16th century. Most people do not know how to grow food, and you would have to know that, and how to hunt and fish if you could not grow enough food. We are used to travelling around in a matter of hours, not days, weeks, months, or years, as people did back then. Then again, much as I deplore many of the practices of modern medicine, most of us would not have made it out of childhood without many of the modern medicines, and our parents might not have made it out of their childhoods. Most of us are used to the instantly available, consumerist society we find ourselves in. Indeed, look at us all- we are posting on the Internet! We are used to talking on telephones! Imagine- you can press a few buttons on a device, and you could be talking to your next-door neighbor, or someone half the world away. We have washing machines, televisions, cars, buses, planes, and all manner of transport. How many of you can really ride a horse? I mean really ride- not just sit there hoping the horse will not sense your secret apprehensions and throw you off. How many of us can make candles, soap, mend fences of whatever type, set broken bones, can fruit, hunt, grow fruits and vegetables, or walk 20 miles at a stretch? Not many of us can do all this and more. So, no, I do not like the negative impacts on our environment that industriallization has caused, but I can look at some of the amazing technologies for producing power such as solar, wind and water actions such as have been being used in places like the Netherlands. Such technologies rarely make it into the news because the big power companies that make so much money do not want us off the grid. Then they would lose money. Back in the 1930's and '40's inventors like Nicola Tesla came up with free energy devices, which various govts then banned and secreted away. How would what we call cities look today if we could do things without producing so much pollution? Would they really be that big? Probably not. When you get really right down to it, most people would not wish to give up their creature comforts that they have become accustomed to, and I must say I can understand that. There is no reason why any of what we call the First World countries should lower their standards of living to that of the poorest country in the world, where people live in ditches and half the time eat dirt because they are too poor to get anything else, and they have lost the ability to farm the land. This is a small country in Africa, by the way, a land which has been exploited almost to death- by, interestingly enough, mostly older white guys. Perhaps it behooves us to seek better and cleaner ways of utilizing technology, clean up the messes we have all contributed to simply by living in industrialized societies, and assist those that are less fortunate to lift themselves up. Debasing ourselves to the lowest common denominator would serve no purpose whatsoever. Regarding the recycling of consumer goods, there are, happily, technologies currently being developed that can recycle these items without so much pollution being produced in the process. One of my main points in this post is that all the above posts are so pessimistic and doomsday oriented. I am rather tired of that. We get it in the news often enough, and it is designed, yes, you read rightly, designed to produce exactly that effect. Why? Because then when you are told you shall pay higher taxes to supposedly clean up the environment, you will not even think to protest, much less attempt to find out where that money really goes. So before you go into a knee-jerk reactionary mode upon reading this post, stop, and think. God and Guru gave us brains for a reason! Wahe Guru- Kulwant [/QUOTE]
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