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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="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 60607" data-attributes="member: 884"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #000080">Our Inner Home</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="color: #000080">Just as we need a physical place to call home, a place of safety, comfort and nourishment, of familiarity and relaxation, of warmth and </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Kindness.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">kindness</span></a><span style="color: #000080">, we also need an inner home. Through our spiritual practice we can carve a home out of the unruly and at times embattled wilderness of our inner world. By our inner work we build, furnish, improve, maintain, and occupy that inner home, which calls for as much effort and care as we put into establishing and maintaining our physical home. The general tenor of our </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/ThoughtsAndThinking.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">thoughts</span></a><span style="color: #000080">, the patterns of our </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/DifficultEmotions.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">emotional responses</span></a><span style="color: #000080"> and the character of our awareness condition and define our experience, this one and only inner space of our life that we carry with us, like a turtle in its shell. Even more than our physical home, the quality of our inner home determines the quality of our life. </span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="color: #000080">Directed </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Attention.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">attention</span></a><span style="color: #000080"> and mindful awareness of bodily </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/EnergyBody.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">sensations</span></a><span style="color: #000080">, thoughts, and emotions build our inner home. </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Prayer.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">Prayer</span></a><span style="color: #000080"> furnishes it with love, warmth, kindness, and joy. </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Meditation.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">Meditation</span></a><span style="color: #000080"> improves, cleans, and maintains our inner home, while always acting in accord with </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Conscience.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">conscience</span></a><span style="color: #000080"> adds a higher floor. And </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Presence.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">presence</span></a><span style="color: #000080"> enables us to inhabit our inner home, to actually live within ourselves, within our life.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="color: #000080">To live in true comfort, we need a home where we feel accepted and befriended. To feel comfortable within our inner home, we need to accept ourselves as we are. We work to improve, but toward our goals rather than to escape what we do not accept about ourselves.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="color: #000080">Our physical home requires energy from external sources, for which we arrange and pay. Likewise, we need sources of </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/InnerEnergies.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">inner energy</span></a><span style="color: #000080">. One important source comes through the air, through </span><a href="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/EnergyBreathing.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080">energy breathing</span></a><span style="color: #000080">. An even stronger source descends through the higher reaches of prayer and meditation. </span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="color: #000080">Once our inner home reaches adequate readiness, we can invite guests. Our openness to and connection with other people gives them a welcome and honored place within our inner world. </span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="color: #000080">Ultimately, we allow the walls to dissolve and our inner home to expand as it merges with the greater world of the sacred. At that point the distinction between inner and outer disappears and our life becomes a prayer lived in and as the sacred spirit. Tastes of this can flow to us even now on days when our practice surges higher.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000080">source: innerfrontier.org</span></span></p><p></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 60607, member: 884"] [CENTER][COLOR=#000080][SIZE=1][COLOR=#000080][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#000080]Our Inner Home[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][COLOR=#000080][SIZE=1][COLOR=#000080][/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER][COLOR=#000080][SIZE=1][COLOR=#000080] [COLOR=#000080]Just as we need a physical place to call home, a place of safety, comfort and nourishment, of familiarity and relaxation, of warmth and [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Kindness.htm"][COLOR=#000080]kindness[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080], we also need an inner home. Through our spiritual practice we can carve a home out of the unruly and at times embattled wilderness of our inner world. By our inner work we build, furnish, improve, maintain, and occupy that inner home, which calls for as much effort and care as we put into establishing and maintaining our physical home. The general tenor of our [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/ThoughtsAndThinking.htm"][COLOR=#000080]thoughts[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080], the patterns of our [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/DifficultEmotions.htm"][COLOR=#000080]emotional responses[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080] and the character of our awareness condition and define our experience, this one and only inner space of our life that we carry with us, like a turtle in its shell. Even more than our physical home, the quality of our inner home determines the quality of our life. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Directed [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Attention.htm"][COLOR=#000080]attention[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080] and mindful awareness of bodily [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/EnergyBody.htm"][COLOR=#000080]sensations[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080], thoughts, and emotions build our inner home. [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Prayer.htm"][COLOR=#000080]Prayer[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080] furnishes it with love, warmth, kindness, and joy. [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Meditation.htm"][COLOR=#000080]Meditation[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080] improves, cleans, and maintains our inner home, while always acting in accord with [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Conscience.htm"][COLOR=#000080]conscience[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080] adds a higher floor. And [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/Presence.htm"][COLOR=#000080]presence[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080] enables us to inhabit our inner home, to actually live within ourselves, within our life.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]To live in true comfort, we need a home where we feel accepted and befriended. To feel comfortable within our inner home, we need to accept ourselves as we are. We work to improve, but toward our goals rather than to escape what we do not accept about ourselves.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Our physical home requires energy from external sources, for which we arrange and pay. Likewise, we need sources of [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/InnerEnergies.htm"][COLOR=#000080]inner energy[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080]. One important source comes through the air, through [/COLOR][URL="http://www.innerfrontier.org/Practices/EnergyBreathing.htm"][COLOR=#000080]energy breathing[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080]. An even stronger source descends through the higher reaches of prayer and meditation. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Once our inner home reaches adequate readiness, we can invite guests. Our openness to and connection with other people gives them a welcome and honored place within our inner world. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Ultimately, we allow the walls to dissolve and our inner home to expand as it merges with the greater world of the sacred. At that point the distinction between inner and outer disappears and our life becomes a prayer lived in and as the sacred spirit. Tastes of this can flow to us even now on days when our practice surges higher.[/COLOR] [LEFT][SIZE=1][COLOR=#000080]source: innerfrontier.org[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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