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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="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 156433" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Threats to the Human Species</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><em><strong>Almost as long as there has been human existence, there have been theories on how it will end. Which, if any, of these potential threats do you think is most realistic?</strong></em></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/the_mark/wide_photos/2920/original.jpg?1288149173" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>by Robert Mann President, Canadian Association of Physicists.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The stars might be beautiful to look at, but their inevitable extinction means trouble for the likes of us earthlings.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Poets might gaze at the stars and ponder their romantic meaning, but over the last century, science has been trying to figure out exactly how tied is the fate of humans to that of the universe. The more we learn about the universe’s destiny, in fact, the clearer the picture we get of our own. And the prognosis is not good.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">To the best of our scientific knowledge, T.S. Eliot was onto something: our universe will go out with a very slow whimper, becoming cold, dark, and lifeless.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">This bleak image of the future began with Edwin Hubble. In 1929, he observed that all galaxies are receding from ours, the farther ones moving even faster. Hubble’s law has been confirmed by astronomers since, and is expressed well in Einstein's equations, which tell us that space itself is expanding every day. In fact, this expansion of space is one of the key observations supporting the Big Bang theory.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">For decades, cosmologists and astronomers expected the expansion to slow down due to the gravitational attraction between the galaxies, just as a ball thrown into the air is attracted back to Earth. But, when it comes to galaxies, is gravity be enough to reverse the expansion?</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Evidently not. In 1999 detailed observation indicated that instead of slowing down as predicted the expansion was actually speeding up! Instead of gravity pressing the cosmic brake pedal, something else is slamming the accelerator. Cosmic repulsion between galaxies is getting faster every day.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">This driving force, the "something" hastening the expansion of the universe, is called dark energy. Composing 73 per cent of the total energy of the universe, we know very little about dark energy – except that it is antigravitational.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">We also know that as time goes on, dark energy will dominate the universe. Eventually all other galaxies will move so far away from our own that they will no longer be visible; their light will not be able to cross the vast expanse of space dark energy has created in between.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In the meantime, the stars in our galaxy will burn out, one by one, before eventually being consumed by the black hole at the galaxy’s centre. Quantum effects will cause this black hole to decay very slowly. Then, after a googol year – a number of years so large that it is written with 1 followed by 100 zeroes – only very cold radiation and perhaps a stray neutrino or two will remain.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">No matter how humanity evolves, it will not be able to survive in such an environment. All sources of useable energy will accelerate out of reach as the expansion of space continues to increase. While we might be able to innovate ourselves out of the way of other threats to our existence, this one is inevitable.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">This whole process will take a very long time, of course. But not forever. Eventually the cosmic drama will come to a close, and the Earth’s history with it. Science can only go so far in helping us discern the meaning of our place in this universe … before it’s too late.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong><a href="http://www.themarknews.com/series/33-threats-to-the-human-species/articles/2920-cosmic-doom" target="_blank">http://www.themarknews.com/series/33-threats-to-the-human-species/articles/2920-cosmic-doom</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 156433, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"] [B][SIZE="5"]Threats to the Human Species[/SIZE][/B] [I][B]Almost as long as there has been human existence, there have been theories on how it will end. Which, if any, of these potential threats do you think is most realistic?[/B][/I] [IMG]http://s3.amazonaws.com/the_mark/wide_photos/2920/original.jpg?1288149173[/IMG] [B]by Robert Mann President, Canadian Association of Physicists.[/B] The stars might be beautiful to look at, but their inevitable extinction means trouble for the likes of us earthlings. Poets might gaze at the stars and ponder their romantic meaning, but over the last century, science has been trying to figure out exactly how tied is the fate of humans to that of the universe. The more we learn about the universe’s destiny, in fact, the clearer the picture we get of our own. And the prognosis is not good. To the best of our scientific knowledge, T.S. Eliot was onto something: our universe will go out with a very slow whimper, becoming cold, dark, and lifeless. This bleak image of the future began with Edwin Hubble. In 1929, he observed that all galaxies are receding from ours, the farther ones moving even faster. Hubble’s law has been confirmed by astronomers since, and is expressed well in Einstein's equations, which tell us that space itself is expanding every day. In fact, this expansion of space is one of the key observations supporting the Big Bang theory. For decades, cosmologists and astronomers expected the expansion to slow down due to the gravitational attraction between the galaxies, just as a ball thrown into the air is attracted back to Earth. But, when it comes to galaxies, is gravity be enough to reverse the expansion? Evidently not. In 1999 detailed observation indicated that instead of slowing down as predicted the expansion was actually speeding up! Instead of gravity pressing the cosmic brake pedal, something else is slamming the accelerator. Cosmic repulsion between galaxies is getting faster every day. This driving force, the "something" hastening the expansion of the universe, is called dark energy. Composing 73 per cent of the total energy of the universe, we know very little about dark energy – except that it is antigravitational. We also know that as time goes on, dark energy will dominate the universe. Eventually all other galaxies will move so far away from our own that they will no longer be visible; their light will not be able to cross the vast expanse of space dark energy has created in between. In the meantime, the stars in our galaxy will burn out, one by one, before eventually being consumed by the black hole at the galaxy’s centre. Quantum effects will cause this black hole to decay very slowly. Then, after a googol year – a number of years so large that it is written with 1 followed by 100 zeroes – only very cold radiation and perhaps a stray neutrino or two will remain. No matter how humanity evolves, it will not be able to survive in such an environment. All sources of useable energy will accelerate out of reach as the expansion of space continues to increase. While we might be able to innovate ourselves out of the way of other threats to our existence, this one is inevitable. This whole process will take a very long time, of course. But not forever. Eventually the cosmic drama will come to a close, and the Earth’s history with it. Science can only go so far in helping us discern the meaning of our place in this universe … before it’s too late. [B] source:[/B][url]http://www.themarknews.com/series/33-threats-to-the-human-species/articles/2920-cosmic-doom[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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