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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="linzer" data-source="post: 179451" data-attributes="member: 13900"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>I am interested in hearing from everyone what are the different approaches they take do to seva? </strong> </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">My wife and I, with the help of a very impressive young man, started a new project yesterday that I wanted to share with you all. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">First of all a word about our friend Manzur, He’s not Sikh. (But he’s a good example of a Sikh) I imagine he’s Catholic but truth is I don’t know for sure. We’ve known him and his family as customers in our bakery since he was a teenager. When he was about 20 years old he had some type of attack that caused him to stop breathing and as a result he lost about 85% of his vision. This hasn’t stopped him from living his life. He works, is married and has a son of about a year. About 2 years ago he and his wife started taking yoga classes with my wife. One day he was explaining that he and his wife formed a charitable organization that goes to the local public hospital on Christmas and New Year’s Eve to give sandwiches and coffee to people who have family members in the hospital.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">This hospital serves a lot of truly poor people. We live in the capital city and many come from small towns, some travel for hours on public transport. It’s customary here that family members do the work that’s done by nurses or professional attendants in States. They have do things like helping the patients to eat, wash, and go to the bathroom. The hospital has a dormitory that can accept up to 80 people a day with food and shelter but that only covers portion of the people who come here. When these people are at the hospital they aren’t working so they don’t have their normal income.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">My wife and I have talked about what we could do as meaningful type of seva but we hadn’t settled on anything. We have Gurdwara in the yoga studio that we have about six times a year. We are learning Kirtan and we prepare langar. I suppose you can call that seva but it feels more like party. To give you an idea about the people that we are aiding, we have a woman who helps with the house cleaning once a week. Recently her father was interned in the hospital and she had to go and help her sisters. She explained how expensive a cup of coffee was outside the hospital, $8.00 peso. To put that in perspective ,I buy my coffee at the “kwiki mart” and accustomed to pay about $15.00 peso for a cup of coffee. It wouldn’t have occurred to me that $8.00 peso would be expensive but for her and a lot of other people it is.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"> When we found out about Manzur’s charity work, we asked if he wanted help. We could commit to going to the hospital once a month. He was ecstatic because he has only been able to do this once a year. We settled on starting in January of this year. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">We made arrangements to meet in our Bakery to prepare sandwiches and coffee at 7:30am in order to be at the hospital by 9:00. Manzur brought his cousin, his driver and a friend who is visiting from Cuba so we had an international, interfaith seva, very cool. The friend from Cuba asked about what sikhi was so we got to give a brief course on basic sikhi while we made sandwiches. He was impressed we’ve arranges to pass him books and literature.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">At the hospital we passed out 100 sandwiches and 5 gallons of coffee in a little less than an hour. Everyone was very appreciative. Many people came to say “thank you, May God bless you”. One woman who was there waiting on her mother in law came to thank us and ask how she could contact us. She lives in a town about 30 kilometers away. She bakes bread in her house and wants to donate bread sometime in the future. She couldn’t right now but when she was working again she would. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">When we were done we decided to go back to the bakery to have breakfast and talk about the experience. Manzur walked with us back to our car. I had to park about six blocks away. We were talking and laughing so much that by the time we got to the car Manzur said that his face hurt from laughing so much.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">During the breakfast Manzur’s driver, a man of around 60 years old explained, with tears in his eyes, how moved he was to be helping people. That people think about themselves and their families but usually not about all the other people that need help.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The whole experience was truly wonderful. We not only got to share a little with people who truly needed it, we met a person who wants to share what little she has. We also got share of points of view, a lot of laughter and a few tears of joy, all in all a good start.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">We’re looking to find other ways to share, so If you have ideas post them please.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="linzer, post: 179451, member: 13900"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][B]I am interested in hearing from everyone what are the different approaches they take do to seva? [/B] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]My wife and I, with the help of a very impressive young man, started a new project yesterday that I wanted to share with you all. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]First of all a word about our friend Manzur, He’s not Sikh. (But he’s a good example of a Sikh) I imagine he’s Catholic but truth is I don’t know for sure. We’ve known him and his family as customers in our bakery since he was a teenager. When he was about 20 years old he had some type of attack that caused him to stop breathing and as a result he lost about 85% of his vision. This hasn’t stopped him from living his life. He works, is married and has a son of about a year. About 2 years ago he and his wife started taking yoga classes with my wife. One day he was explaining that he and his wife formed a charitable organization that goes to the local public hospital on Christmas and New Year’s Eve to give sandwiches and coffee to people who have family members in the hospital.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]This hospital serves a lot of truly poor people. We live in the capital city and many come from small towns, some travel for hours on public transport. It’s customary here that family members do the work that’s done by nurses or professional attendants in States. They have do things like helping the patients to eat, wash, and go to the bathroom. The hospital has a dormitory that can accept up to 80 people a day with food and shelter but that only covers portion of the people who come here. When these people are at the hospital they aren’t working so they don’t have their normal income.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]My wife and I have talked about what we could do as meaningful type of seva but we hadn’t settled on anything. We have Gurdwara in the yoga studio that we have about six times a year. We are learning Kirtan and we prepare langar. I suppose you can call that seva but it feels more like party. To give you an idea about the people that we are aiding, we have a woman who helps with the house cleaning once a week. Recently her father was interned in the hospital and she had to go and help her sisters. She explained how expensive a cup of coffee was outside the hospital, $8.00 peso. To put that in perspective ,I buy my coffee at the “kwiki mart” and accustomed to pay about $15.00 peso for a cup of coffee. It wouldn’t have occurred to me that $8.00 peso would be expensive but for her and a lot of other people it is.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri] When we found out about Manzur’s charity work, we asked if he wanted help. We could commit to going to the hospital once a month. He was ecstatic because he has only been able to do this once a year. We settled on starting in January of this year. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]We made arrangements to meet in our Bakery to prepare sandwiches and coffee at 7:30am in order to be at the hospital by 9:00. Manzur brought his cousin, his driver and a friend who is visiting from Cuba so we had an international, interfaith seva, very cool. The friend from Cuba asked about what sikhi was so we got to give a brief course on basic sikhi while we made sandwiches. He was impressed we’ve arranges to pass him books and literature.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]At the hospital we passed out 100 sandwiches and 5 gallons of coffee in a little less than an hour. Everyone was very appreciative. Many people came to say “thank you, May God bless you”. One woman who was there waiting on her mother in law came to thank us and ask how she could contact us. She lives in a town about 30 kilometers away. She bakes bread in her house and wants to donate bread sometime in the future. She couldn’t right now but when she was working again she would. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]When we were done we decided to go back to the bakery to have breakfast and talk about the experience. Manzur walked with us back to our car. I had to park about six blocks away. We were talking and laughing so much that by the time we got to the car Manzur said that his face hurt from laughing so much.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]During the breakfast Manzur’s driver, a man of around 60 years old explained, with tears in his eyes, how moved he was to be helping people. That people think about themselves and their families but usually not about all the other people that need help.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]The whole experience was truly wonderful. We not only got to share a little with people who truly needed it, we met a person who wants to share what little she has. We also got share of points of view, a lot of laughter and a few tears of joy, all in all a good start.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]We’re looking to find other ways to share, so If you have ideas post them please.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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