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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_member14" data-source="post: 175869" data-attributes="member: 586"><p>Ambarsaria ji,</p><p></p><p>I am waiting for your response to my other message, but since you have not done so yet, I'm responding to this one. Perhaps this will incite a response. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But why the idea of “creation” to begin with? Why the attention moves around this and that and then the curiosity as to where it all came from / created by whom?</p><p></p><p>Yes, no need to think about enlightenment, but should not the urgency then be to understand the experience “now” instead of getting lost in stories about this and that?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>From where I stand, creation and creator are the ultimate thought proliferation, and it is this that should give you pause, not the verbalizing associated with the study of our moment to moment experiences.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Regardless, you are caught up in the story of creation. </p><p>Insignificant are conditioned phenomena and this is because they fall away the moment they arise. Developing an understanding about these is therefore the only way to detachment and dealing with conceit / ego. Making a comparison, no matter as big or as small, is an instance of conceit and therefore only feeds it. Today you think the human being is insignificant, tomorrow he will be great, this is just a game 'self' plays. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enlightenment is first and foremost, coming to know / understand. If you want to say something about it, this must therefore be what enlightenment comes to know / understand. What the effects of enlightenment are is only secondary.</p><p></p><p>Holism is a notion held by those with no understanding about the nature of the different mental phenomena, particularly that of “self-view”. Parts belonging to wholes are just concepts spun by self-view .</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A glimpse into the extent of one's own ignorance turns the attentions in the direction of better understanding one's own mind, away from ideas about the world out there, one conceived of by force of the very ignorance and attachments still existing and very much in control. If there is any humility, it is this and not in the idea that humans are insignificant. After all, does not the latter perception then turn the attention towards an attempt to identify with the so called, Creator? If this is not ego identification, what is it?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Are you trying to make the point that because one can’t see the rock on mars, this shows that our faculties are limited and therefore nothing when compared to the vastness of creation? Of course seeing is limited and won’t arise if there are no conditions for it, which include the eye and visible object coming into range and contacting the eye. So not only the rock on mars, but you will unlikely ever see the back of your own neck. </p><p></p><p>All the faculties are limited and the thinking which makes sense of the experiences through these faculties must therefore also limited. So why give so much importance to the imaginings such as that of the concept of Creator? Would not this have been within the limits of the sense faculties and because these are not understood for what they are, is the result in fact, of ignorance?</p><p></p><p>But actually the limit of these experience is not about the range, but the functions. For example, eye consciousness can only experience visible object and can't experience say, sound. Likewise, hearing cannot think and thinking cannot hear. While looking in the direction of the stars or the computer screen, it does not matter at all if the vision is blur. it would be most valuable however, if wisdom arose and understood visible object as visible object or seeing as seeing.</p><p> </p><p>Yes, the eye, ear, nose etc., visible object, fire element, earth element and so on, feeling, perception, thinking, attachment, conceit, and even kindness, compassion and wisdom itself, these are all insignificant. But this is not because it stands in contrast to the “idea” of creation, but because of their very conditioned nature. Creation is just an idea, and that very thinking / idea is likewise, insignificant. But not only, because while wisdom also rises and falls away, it however puts one on the right track towards “right knowledge”. Creator / creation on the other hand, are “wrong knowledge”, and this can’t ultimately, lead to any good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_member14, post: 175869, member: 586"] Ambarsaria ji, I am waiting for your response to my other message, but since you have not done so yet, I'm responding to this one. Perhaps this will incite a response. But why the idea of “creation” to begin with? Why the attention moves around this and that and then the curiosity as to where it all came from / created by whom? Yes, no need to think about enlightenment, but should not the urgency then be to understand the experience “now” instead of getting lost in stories about this and that? From where I stand, creation and creator are the ultimate thought proliferation, and it is this that should give you pause, not the verbalizing associated with the study of our moment to moment experiences. Regardless, you are caught up in the story of creation. Insignificant are conditioned phenomena and this is because they fall away the moment they arise. Developing an understanding about these is therefore the only way to detachment and dealing with conceit / ego. Making a comparison, no matter as big or as small, is an instance of conceit and therefore only feeds it. Today you think the human being is insignificant, tomorrow he will be great, this is just a game 'self' plays. Enlightenment is first and foremost, coming to know / understand. If you want to say something about it, this must therefore be what enlightenment comes to know / understand. What the effects of enlightenment are is only secondary. Holism is a notion held by those with no understanding about the nature of the different mental phenomena, particularly that of “self-view”. Parts belonging to wholes are just concepts spun by self-view . A glimpse into the extent of one's own ignorance turns the attentions in the direction of better understanding one's own mind, away from ideas about the world out there, one conceived of by force of the very ignorance and attachments still existing and very much in control. If there is any humility, it is this and not in the idea that humans are insignificant. After all, does not the latter perception then turn the attention towards an attempt to identify with the so called, Creator? If this is not ego identification, what is it? Are you trying to make the point that because one can’t see the rock on mars, this shows that our faculties are limited and therefore nothing when compared to the vastness of creation? Of course seeing is limited and won’t arise if there are no conditions for it, which include the eye and visible object coming into range and contacting the eye. So not only the rock on mars, but you will unlikely ever see the back of your own neck. All the faculties are limited and the thinking which makes sense of the experiences through these faculties must therefore also limited. So why give so much importance to the imaginings such as that of the concept of Creator? Would not this have been within the limits of the sense faculties and because these are not understood for what they are, is the result in fact, of ignorance? But actually the limit of these experience is not about the range, but the functions. For example, eye consciousness can only experience visible object and can't experience say, sound. Likewise, hearing cannot think and thinking cannot hear. While looking in the direction of the stars or the computer screen, it does not matter at all if the vision is blur. it would be most valuable however, if wisdom arose and understood visible object as visible object or seeing as seeing. Yes, the eye, ear, nose etc., visible object, fire element, earth element and so on, feeling, perception, thinking, attachment, conceit, and even kindness, compassion and wisdom itself, these are all insignificant. But this is not because it stands in contrast to the “idea” of creation, but because of their very conditioned nature. Creation is just an idea, and that very thinking / idea is likewise, insignificant. But not only, because while wisdom also rises and falls away, it however puts one on the right track towards “right knowledge”. Creator / creation on the other hand, are “wrong knowledge”, and this can’t ultimately, lead to any good. [/QUOTE]
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