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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: 145355" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy">APRIL 21, 2011</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">The day the Earth shook and the ocean erupted</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy">April 21, 2011</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Mardi Tindal - THE STAR, Toronto</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><img src="http://media.thestar.topscms.com/images/76/8a/8279280f44d8826c79b02e84b0ae.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Paul Lachine / Newsart - Earth Day</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Paul Lachine/Newsart</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The Earth shook and split open last month. The ocean erupted in a giant wave. It wasn’t the first time the landscape of our world has been changed. The fissures and floods come too often these days, but still we respond with urgency.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Prayers and emergency supplies make fast flight to communities of Japan, New Zealand, Bolivia, Brazil, Australia, Pakistan, China, Chile and Haiti. We harness the best of ourselves and our technology to bring relief and begin rebuilding — healing the scars left on the landscape.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Healing the heart takes longer. Both those at the epicentre of tragedy and those of us on its edges suffer with anxiety and the persistent worry that the Earth itself is suffering. Deep down, we wonder where hope can be found.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Because Earth Day and Good Friday fall on the same day this year, Christians will be holding the suffering of the Earth and our grief over Jesus’s suffering together in our hearts. Interestingly, the words “core” and “heart” share the same Latin root, and we, like the Earth, have been shaken to our core. On Easter Sunday, we will be reminded of where hope is found.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Some see these things, the physical restoration of the Earth and the healing of the heart, as separate. Equally, some see a tension between science and faith. I see two interrelated domains, rational and spiritual, both gifts of God, equally necessary for healing and wholeness.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">On this Earth Day, I hope Christians and all people of faith and goodwill will pay heed to the science of global warming, and take heart for the healing of the Earth.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Christians learn that at the moment of Jesus’s death, the Earth shook, and the rocks split. Jesus’s friends, troubled and confused, returned to their homes. They had glimpsed in Jesus a new way of life. Without him, they thought their reason for hope was dead, their new life impossible.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But it wasn’t. By remembering Jesus, and knowing the living Christ, disciples find the courage to live in the way he taught. Even without him physically at our side, a community of hope and faith is re-formed.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Members of all faith traditions care deeply about the suffering of the Earth. Painful events that cause death and bruise souls may tempt us to think that hope is lost, but this is not our option as people of faith.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">We are people of hope and life. We accept our responsibility for the care of creation. We bring a song of hope and humility to the unvarnished prose of scientific fact, so that broken hearts can take heart together, and together we can choose life over death.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">We are inspired by those giving their lives for the sake of others, taking on life-threatening work inside a Japanese nuclear plant for the sake of life outside it. There are others, less dramatically, showing the courage to change today for the sake of their children’s lives tomorrow. There are churches, synagogues, mosques and temples making dramatic changes to properties and buildings, aware that 40 per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings. Many call for legislation that would see Canada keep our emissions reduction commitments to the world.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">According to science, our atmosphere must return to 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide if life is to continue as we’ve known it. This is an achievable goal — if we don’t turn away.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">It is not the job of faith to argue with science. Faith can embrace the fruits of our God-given intellect and work with the best science available, in the service of life. It is our job as people of faith to flavour science with hope.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">For Christians, this weekend represents an intense movement from the anguish of Good Friday to the joy of Easter Sunday. On Sunday we will take heart and embrace life again.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">We will not abandon hope. Every faith tradition participates in what is life-giving. Now is the time for all of us to pray and act together for the sake of life.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Earth Day 2012 will coincide with the third Sunday of Easter. I pray that between now and then voices of faith and voices of science will crescendo in a song of healing for the Earth.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><em>Mardi Tindal is Moderator of the United Church of Canada.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/978757--the-day-the-earth-shook-and-the-ocean-erupted" target="_blank">http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/978757--the-day-the-earth-shook-and-the-ocean-erupted</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 145355, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"]APRIL 21, 2011 [B][SIZE="5"]The day the Earth shook and the ocean erupted[/SIZE][/B] April 21, 2011 Mardi Tindal - THE STAR, Toronto [IMG]http://media.thestar.topscms.com/images/76/8a/8279280f44d8826c79b02e84b0ae.jpeg[/IMG] Paul Lachine / Newsart - Earth Day Paul Lachine/Newsart The Earth shook and split open last month. The ocean erupted in a giant wave. It wasn’t the first time the landscape of our world has been changed. The fissures and floods come too often these days, but still we respond with urgency. Prayers and emergency supplies make fast flight to communities of Japan, New Zealand, Bolivia, Brazil, Australia, Pakistan, China, Chile and Haiti. We harness the best of ourselves and our technology to bring relief and begin rebuilding — healing the scars left on the landscape. Healing the heart takes longer. Both those at the epicentre of tragedy and those of us on its edges suffer with anxiety and the persistent worry that the Earth itself is suffering. Deep down, we wonder where hope can be found. Because Earth Day and Good Friday fall on the same day this year, Christians will be holding the suffering of the Earth and our grief over Jesus’s suffering together in our hearts. Interestingly, the words “core” and “heart” share the same Latin root, and we, like the Earth, have been shaken to our core. On Easter Sunday, we will be reminded of where hope is found. Some see these things, the physical restoration of the Earth and the healing of the heart, as separate. Equally, some see a tension between science and faith. I see two interrelated domains, rational and spiritual, both gifts of God, equally necessary for healing and wholeness. On this Earth Day, I hope Christians and all people of faith and goodwill will pay heed to the science of global warming, and take heart for the healing of the Earth. Christians learn that at the moment of Jesus’s death, the Earth shook, and the rocks split. Jesus’s friends, troubled and confused, returned to their homes. They had glimpsed in Jesus a new way of life. Without him, they thought their reason for hope was dead, their new life impossible. But it wasn’t. By remembering Jesus, and knowing the living Christ, disciples find the courage to live in the way he taught. Even without him physically at our side, a community of hope and faith is re-formed. Members of all faith traditions care deeply about the suffering of the Earth. Painful events that cause death and bruise souls may tempt us to think that hope is lost, but this is not our option as people of faith. We are people of hope and life. We accept our responsibility for the care of creation. We bring a song of hope and humility to the unvarnished prose of scientific fact, so that broken hearts can take heart together, and together we can choose life over death. We are inspired by those giving their lives for the sake of others, taking on life-threatening work inside a Japanese nuclear plant for the sake of life outside it. There are others, less dramatically, showing the courage to change today for the sake of their children’s lives tomorrow. There are churches, synagogues, mosques and temples making dramatic changes to properties and buildings, aware that 40 per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings. Many call for legislation that would see Canada keep our emissions reduction commitments to the world. According to science, our atmosphere must return to 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide if life is to continue as we’ve known it. This is an achievable goal — if we don’t turn away. It is not the job of faith to argue with science. Faith can embrace the fruits of our God-given intellect and work with the best science available, in the service of life. It is our job as people of faith to flavour science with hope. For Christians, this weekend represents an intense movement from the anguish of Good Friday to the joy of Easter Sunday. On Sunday we will take heart and embrace life again. We will not abandon hope. Every faith tradition participates in what is life-giving. Now is the time for all of us to pray and act together for the sake of life. Earth Day 2012 will coincide with the third Sunday of Easter. I pray that between now and then voices of faith and voices of science will crescendo in a song of healing for the Earth. [I]Mardi Tindal is Moderator of the United Church of Canada.[/I] [B]source:[/B] [url]http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/978757--the-day-the-earth-shook-and-the-ocean-erupted[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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