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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="spnadmin" data-source="post: 189810" data-attributes="member: 35"><p><strong>Pauline Marois Desperate to Turn Ban on Religious Symbols into Wedge Issue</strong></p><p></p><p>Pauline Marois desperate to turn ban on religious symbols into wedge issue</p><p></p><p>Graeme Hamilton</p><p></p><p><a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/08/22/pauline-marois-desperate-to-turn-ban-on-religious-symbols-into-wedge-issue/" target="_blank">http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/08/22/pauline-marois-desperate-to-turn-ban-on-religious-symbols-into-wedge-issue/</a></p><p></p><p>The details of the Parti Québécois government’s planned Charter of Quebec Values that leaked this week have been denounced by minority groups and compared to repressive Russia by a leading expert on multiculturalism. Federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has expressed his “enormous concerns” that the charter will limit individual freedoms.</p><p></p><p>In other words, everything is going perfectly as far the PQ is concerned.</p><p></p><p>Entering their cabinet meeting in Quebec City Thursday, senior ministers in Pauline Marois’ government gave no indication they would bend in the face of criticism from inside and outside the province.</p><p></p><p>“We are going to show leadership. We are going to weather the storm,” said Jean-François Lisée, the Minister of International Relations and onetime adviser to Ms. Marois on matters of identity.</p><p></p><p>“The proposals we are going to table are very balanced proposals,” Bernard Drainville, the minister responsible for the proposed charter, said. “I think they find an appropriate balance between the respect of human rights and the respect of Quebecers’ common values.”</p><p></p><p>The most controversial aspect of the proposal leaked to the Journal de Montréal — one that the PQ promised in last summer’s election campaign and that no government minster denied Thursday — is a ban on public servants wearing religious symbols. Hijabs, kippas, turbans and conspicuous crucifixes would be off-limits for everyone from daycare workers to liquor-store clerks.</p><p></p><p>That is what led McGill University philosopher Charles Taylor to invoke Vladimir Putin’s Russia in his criticism of the charter and spurred the Jewish group B’nai Brith to accuse the government of discrimination. The media have reported on a turban-wearing physician mulling a move from Quebec</p><p></p><p>For the PQ, annoying Jewish groups, federal Liberals and anglo intellectuals is not going to cost them many votes. And the angst it is creating among minorities is a price worth paying to appeal to the insecurities of francophone Quebecers, particularly in the regions outside Montreal where immigrants are scarce.</p><p></p><p>The tensions offer a taste of what is in store when the PQ starts its promised discussion “among Quebecers” this fall of what should be done to ensure religious minorities do not threaten Quebec values.</p><p></p><p>Quebec lived through a similar discussion five years ago when Mr. Taylor and Gérard Bouchard led a public inquiry into what the state should do to reasonably accommodate minority religious practices. And it was not pretty, with some treating the public hearings as an invitation to vent intolerant views.</p><p></p><p>There is no good reason to reopen this can of worms, except that the PQ thinks it will serve as bait to voters. Leading a shaky minority government, standing at 29% in the latest CROP poll compared with 40% for the Liberals, Ms. Marois is desperate for a wedge issue that will stir up emotions.</p><p></p><p>She saw her predecessor as PQ leader, André Boisclair, take the path of inclusiveness and end up third in the 2007 election while Mario Dumont’s Action Démocratique du Québec successfully played up fears of an eroding Quebec identity. Within months, she had replaced Mr. Boisclair and tabled her Quebec Identity Act in the National Assembly.</p><p></p><p>Her bill, which was never adopted, would have required newcomers to demonstrate an “appropriate knowledge” of French before they could run for office or donate to political parties. It also would have modified Quebec’s charter of rights to specify that “the fundamental values of the Quebec nation” had to be taken into account when ruling on individual rights.</p><p></p><p>Since its creation, the PQ had been able to play to Quebecers’ fears about the survival of the French language. But the lukewarm reception given the government’s recent attempt to rewrite Bill 101 revealed that the language card is no longer a guaranteed winner.</p><p></p><p>So now the threat of the Big Bad Anglo has been replaced by the spectre of Muslims, Jews and Sikhs imposing their religious beliefs on Quebecers. “We do not have to apologize for being who we are,” she liked to say during last year’s election campaign, as if Quebec’s heritage was somehow under assault.</p><p></p><p> The most harmful would be to give in to the way of fear, to the temptation of withdrawal and rejection, to play the victim</p><p></p><p>After months of study by two of Quebec’s foremost intellectuals, the Bouchard-Taylor report concluded that the supposed crisis of Quebec identity was largely a crisis of perception, fuelled by erroneous media reports.</p><p></p><p>The authors said the province’s French-Canadian majority had the largest share of responsibility for smoothing intercultural relations and warned of traps to avoid.</p><p></p><p>“Among them,” they wrote, “the most harmful would be to give in to the way of fear, to the temptation of withdrawal and rejection, to play the victim, to fall back on an inheritance that, with the drop in the birth rate, leads to a future that has no long-term horizon — a frozen heritage that isolates and impoverishes.”</p><p></p><p>Ms. Marois was not listening then, and she is not listening now.</p><p></p><p>Her Charter of Quebec Values sounds a lot like a “frozen heritage that isolates an impoverishes.”</p><p></p><p>National Post</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 189810, member: 35"] [b]Pauline Marois Desperate to Turn Ban on Religious Symbols into Wedge Issue[/b] Pauline Marois desperate to turn ban on religious symbols into wedge issue Graeme Hamilton [url]http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/08/22/pauline-marois-desperate-to-turn-ban-on-religious-symbols-into-wedge-issue/[/url] The details of the Parti Québécois government’s planned Charter of Quebec Values that leaked this week have been denounced by minority groups and compared to repressive Russia by a leading expert on multiculturalism. Federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has expressed his “enormous concerns” that the charter will limit individual freedoms. In other words, everything is going perfectly as far the PQ is concerned. Entering their cabinet meeting in Quebec City Thursday, senior ministers in Pauline Marois’ government gave no indication they would bend in the face of criticism from inside and outside the province. “We are going to show leadership. We are going to weather the storm,” said Jean-François Lisée, the Minister of International Relations and onetime adviser to Ms. Marois on matters of identity. “The proposals we are going to table are very balanced proposals,” Bernard Drainville, the minister responsible for the proposed charter, said. “I think they find an appropriate balance between the respect of human rights and the respect of Quebecers’ common values.” The most controversial aspect of the proposal leaked to the Journal de Montréal — one that the PQ promised in last summer’s election campaign and that no government minster denied Thursday — is a ban on public servants wearing religious symbols. Hijabs, kippas, turbans and conspicuous crucifixes would be off-limits for everyone from daycare workers to liquor-store clerks. That is what led McGill University philosopher Charles Taylor to invoke Vladimir Putin’s Russia in his criticism of the charter and spurred the Jewish group B’nai Brith to accuse the government of discrimination. The media have reported on a turban-wearing physician mulling a move from Quebec For the PQ, annoying Jewish groups, federal Liberals and anglo intellectuals is not going to cost them many votes. And the angst it is creating among minorities is a price worth paying to appeal to the insecurities of francophone Quebecers, particularly in the regions outside Montreal where immigrants are scarce. The tensions offer a taste of what is in store when the PQ starts its promised discussion “among Quebecers” this fall of what should be done to ensure religious minorities do not threaten Quebec values. Quebec lived through a similar discussion five years ago when Mr. Taylor and Gérard Bouchard led a public inquiry into what the state should do to reasonably accommodate minority religious practices. And it was not pretty, with some treating the public hearings as an invitation to vent intolerant views. There is no good reason to reopen this can of worms, except that the PQ thinks it will serve as bait to voters. Leading a shaky minority government, standing at 29% in the latest CROP poll compared with 40% for the Liberals, Ms. Marois is desperate for a wedge issue that will stir up emotions. She saw her predecessor as PQ leader, André Boisclair, take the path of inclusiveness and end up third in the 2007 election while Mario Dumont’s Action Démocratique du Québec successfully played up fears of an eroding Quebec identity. Within months, she had replaced Mr. Boisclair and tabled her Quebec Identity Act in the National Assembly. Her bill, which was never adopted, would have required newcomers to demonstrate an “appropriate knowledge” of French before they could run for office or donate to political parties. It also would have modified Quebec’s charter of rights to specify that “the fundamental values of the Quebec nation” had to be taken into account when ruling on individual rights. Since its creation, the PQ had been able to play to Quebecers’ fears about the survival of the French language. But the lukewarm reception given the government’s recent attempt to rewrite Bill 101 revealed that the language card is no longer a guaranteed winner. So now the threat of the Big Bad Anglo has been replaced by the spectre of Muslims, Jews and Sikhs imposing their religious beliefs on Quebecers. “We do not have to apologize for being who we are,” she liked to say during last year’s election campaign, as if Quebec’s heritage was somehow under assault. The most harmful would be to give in to the way of fear, to the temptation of withdrawal and rejection, to play the victim After months of study by two of Quebec’s foremost intellectuals, the Bouchard-Taylor report concluded that the supposed crisis of Quebec identity was largely a crisis of perception, fuelled by erroneous media reports. The authors said the province’s French-Canadian majority had the largest share of responsibility for smoothing intercultural relations and warned of traps to avoid. “Among them,” they wrote, “the most harmful would be to give in to the way of fear, to the temptation of withdrawal and rejection, to play the victim, to fall back on an inheritance that, with the drop in the birth rate, leads to a future that has no long-term horizon — a frozen heritage that isolates and impoverishes.” Ms. Marois was not listening then, and she is not listening now. Her Charter of Quebec Values sounds a lot like a “frozen heritage that isolates an impoverishes.” National Post [/QUOTE]
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