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Composition, Arrangement & Layout
ਜਪੁ | Jup
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="carolineislands" data-source="post: 73490" data-attributes="member: 5695"><p>And I read your post and think to myself, "Wow -- I used to think just like that!" Now I understand that your perception of God is only one perception and one way of understanding God. There are many others but it is the same God.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Faith without works is dead.</p><p> </p><p>And grace comes from God, only He decides who receives it and why. Your perception of God is very very <span style="font-size: 9px">small.</span><span style="font-size: 10px"> God is beyond the manmade rules of your religion. The beliefs you call the "truth" were outlined and defined at the council of nicea by MEN. God is beyond the reasoning of those men and beyond the words of any human language. God transends all of human kind's attempts to define him. Like the blind men trying to describe an elephant, we only have one perception of the truth. You describe the trunk of the elephant and another describes the ear, and yet another describes the leg and so on. What we need to do is take off our blinders and see that the God we ALL worship is far more than the little fragments of understanding that each of us has been holding up as the one and only truth. </span></p><p> </p><p>What you're telling us here is in effect that there is only one truth and it is the trunk of the elephant. What I am saying is that is only a part and that the whole measure and scope of God is more than any of us can perceive and that to truly love him and transend all the made up rules that people have used to try to define him, you have to first give up allegience to doctrine and put your focus on God alone.</p><p> </p><p>God is bigger than ANY religion -- including yours. We live in an infinite universe. Do you really think that a tiny litte gaggle of pompous catholic fathers at nicea were the only human beings to have ever understood truth throughout the ages of mankind? Everybody else is going to hell, right? Have you ever wondered about how illogical that is? Have you ever looked at the tiny dot on the globe that represents the life of Jesus? Have you ever looked at the size of the earth compared to the Sun? Or the Sun compared to other stars hundred of times it's size? Have you ever thought about the amount of energy it would take to create this universe? I have. One scientist figured it in Kilowatts. If you wrote the number as 1 followed by zeros on ticker tape it would encircle the earth at the equator 13 times. If you wrote the number 1 followed by zeros in books, it would fill a library of over a million volumes. God created this infinite universe with a single thought. And yet you think that your version of Christianity is the only section of humanity God has ever spoken to or revealed himself to? You think that you are the only ones that have the ability to know and love and be part of God? What gives you the right to define what God does and does not do or how he chooses to present himself to others? God can present himself to anybody any way He chooses at any time past or present and just because he has spoken to you in one way does NOT mean he cannot speak to another in another way. If that's the right way for you -- follow it with all your heart. However God reveals himself to each individual is how that individual should follow, and with everything within them give Him thanks and honor.</p><p> </p><p>You discredit and diminish God by restricting your perception of who he is and what He is capable of. And you make him less than He is in your own mind by attempting to impose your limited perception of Him on others.</p><p> </p><p>How dare you presume to declare how God does and does not reveal Himself to others. That is HIS job and HE will do it however HE desires. And that is between God and the individual he reveals himself to. If you would come to understand that, you just might find out that he has revealed MORE of Himself to others than He has to you because you are limiting him and others are not.</p><p> </p><p>Think about it...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="carolineislands, post: 73490, member: 5695"] And I read your post and think to myself, "Wow -- I used to think just like that!" Now I understand that your perception of God is only one perception and one way of understanding God. There are many others but it is the same God. [SIZE=3][/SIZE] Faith without works is dead. And grace comes from God, only He decides who receives it and why. Your perception of God is very very [SIZE=1]small.[/SIZE][SIZE=2] God is beyond the manmade rules of your religion. The beliefs you call the "truth" were outlined and defined at the council of nicea by MEN. God is beyond the reasoning of those men and beyond the words of any human language. God transends all of human kind's attempts to define him. Like the blind men trying to describe an elephant, we only have one perception of the truth. You describe the trunk of the elephant and another describes the ear, and yet another describes the leg and so on. What we need to do is take off our blinders and see that the God we ALL worship is far more than the little fragments of understanding that each of us has been holding up as the one and only truth. [/SIZE] What you're telling us here is in effect that there is only one truth and it is the trunk of the elephant. What I am saying is that is only a part and that the whole measure and scope of God is more than any of us can perceive and that to truly love him and transend all the made up rules that people have used to try to define him, you have to first give up allegience to doctrine and put your focus on God alone. God is bigger than ANY religion -- including yours. We live in an infinite universe. Do you really think that a tiny litte gaggle of pompous catholic fathers at nicea were the only human beings to have ever understood truth throughout the ages of mankind? Everybody else is going to hell, right? Have you ever wondered about how illogical that is? Have you ever looked at the tiny dot on the globe that represents the life of Jesus? Have you ever looked at the size of the earth compared to the Sun? Or the Sun compared to other stars hundred of times it's size? Have you ever thought about the amount of energy it would take to create this universe? I have. One scientist figured it in Kilowatts. If you wrote the number as 1 followed by zeros on ticker tape it would encircle the earth at the equator 13 times. If you wrote the number 1 followed by zeros in books, it would fill a library of over a million volumes. God created this infinite universe with a single thought. And yet you think that your version of Christianity is the only section of humanity God has ever spoken to or revealed himself to? You think that you are the only ones that have the ability to know and love and be part of God? What gives you the right to define what God does and does not do or how he chooses to present himself to others? God can present himself to anybody any way He chooses at any time past or present and just because he has spoken to you in one way does NOT mean he cannot speak to another in another way. If that's the right way for you -- follow it with all your heart. However God reveals himself to each individual is how that individual should follow, and with everything within them give Him thanks and honor. You discredit and diminish God by restricting your perception of who he is and what He is capable of. And you make him less than He is in your own mind by attempting to impose your limited perception of Him on others. How dare you presume to declare how God does and does not reveal Himself to others. That is HIS job and HE will do it however HE desires. And that is between God and the individual he reveals himself to. If you would come to understand that, you just might find out that he has revealed MORE of Himself to others than He has to you because you are limiting him and others are not. Think about it... [/QUOTE]
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