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Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
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Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
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Gurbani (696-703)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
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Gurbani (795-831)
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Thitteen (838-840)
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Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
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Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
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Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
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Bara Maha (1107-1110)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
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Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
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Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
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Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
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Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ishna" data-source="post: 141437" data-attributes="member: 2709"><p>Spnadmin ji</p><p> </p><p>Thank you for your patience with me (and my frustration) over this topic. I'm skirting the edge of my knowledge-level so I may become incoherant at any given moment. :grinningkaur:</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: darkgreen">Spnadmin said: If you really believe that culture is a "toxic and useless force," then how could there be an ideal Sikh state, or any ideal state? </span></p><p> </p><p>Point taken. And with your definition of culture in mind, I think I have misappropriated the word. Furthermore, I think I'm guilty of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: darkgreen">Spnadmin said: 1. How does anyone extricate oneself from "culture?" It is more than hypothetical as we all belong to more than one culture, when you think about it. 2. Why does culture exist in the first place? 3. What is culture, as you define it? </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black">I define culture as being the mainstream/majority behaviour and beliefs of groups of people. It surrounds a person growing up and it becomes behaviour and beliefs which make up that person's psyche and/or perpetuates the behaviour and beliefs.</span></p><p> </p><p>These behaviours and beliefs become their own "truths" and people tend to not question or challenge them. They are "just part of life". Some of these behaviours and beliefs are very negative, and are so in-grained to some cultures that even a powerful religious text or religion can't over-ride the cultural belief. So they are picked up and taken as part of the religion.</p><p> </p><p>I think the two easiest examples we have in this thread are female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa/Middle East/Asia and spreading, and female infanticide in China and Punjab.</p><p> </p><p>I can't really speak for Islam because I don't know enough about it, but I'm pretty sure FGM isn't mandated in the Quran. Therefore not part of the religion.</p><p> </p><p>And I fully well know that female infanticide isn't a part of Sikhism. But yet, the majority of Sikhs live in Punjab and I believe it has one of the worlds highest rates of infanticide. Someone looking in might think female infanticide is a part of Sikhism, or that Sikhism condones such practices. It illustrates to me that people are happier following their group-culture than they are in following their religion.</p><p> </p><p>In my own culture, half-naked pencil thin women are everywhere. The belief is that to be a proper woman you have to remove unwanted hair and be super skinny. These elements go against Sikhi and I find myself guilty of rooting for my own cultural ideas of removing hairs. It's such a deep-seated image in my tiny little Western psyche.</p><p> </p><p>I think, spnadmin ji, one of the points you're trying to make to me is that you can't have a group of people without a culture. My workplace has a culture. I've been enlisted to help change aspects of the organisational culture by consistently using different terms for things to try and dissolve the "us versus them" mentality of some of our teams. So, this group mentality thing is pervasive. I get it. It's going to exist no matter what.</p><p> </p><p>I don't know, I just wish people would just be nice and get along. Why people have to be so negative, look for negatives, be violent to others, be totally illogical and cruel (female children shouldn't be any less valuable than boy children, and bodies should be left intact not hacked to pieces -- why can't people see this???)?</p><p> </p><p>Why can't religion over-power these elements?</p><p> </p><p>Another good example is caste. So many Sikhs are still worried about caste even when the Gurus said it a million different ways that it's meaningless.</p><p> </p><p>I'm running myself around in circles now. :whatzpointkudi:</p><p> </p><p>But I still stand by the presenter's statement that humans get into trouble when they let cultural norms override their religious instruction. There has to be a clear separation between a cultural practice and a religious practice. It is easiest to see when you come from an alien culture and look at another culture's religion in theory. In practice it becomes culturafied. You can't have a universal religion without a universal culture.</p><p> </p><p>"What could be the Sikh Universal Culture"?</p><p> </p><p>Ishna</p><p>Off to fix the cultures of the world, starting in her office kitchen! teehee...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ishna, post: 141437, member: 2709"] Spnadmin ji Thank you for your patience with me (and my frustration) over this topic. I'm skirting the edge of my knowledge-level so I may become incoherant at any given moment. :grinningkaur: [COLOR=darkgreen]Spnadmin said: If you really believe that culture is a "toxic and useless force," then how could there be an ideal Sikh state, or any ideal state? [/COLOR] Point taken. And with your definition of culture in mind, I think I have misappropriated the word. Furthermore, I think I'm guilty of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater". [COLOR=darkgreen]Spnadmin said: 1. How does anyone extricate oneself from "culture?" It is more than hypothetical as we all belong to more than one culture, when you think about it. 2. Why does culture exist in the first place? 3. What is culture, as you define it? [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]I define culture as being the mainstream/majority behaviour and beliefs of groups of people. It surrounds a person growing up and it becomes behaviour and beliefs which make up that person's psyche and/or perpetuates the behaviour and beliefs.[/COLOR] These behaviours and beliefs become their own "truths" and people tend to not question or challenge them. They are "just part of life". Some of these behaviours and beliefs are very negative, and are so in-grained to some cultures that even a powerful religious text or religion can't over-ride the cultural belief. So they are picked up and taken as part of the religion. I think the two easiest examples we have in this thread are female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa/Middle East/Asia and spreading, and female infanticide in China and Punjab. I can't really speak for Islam because I don't know enough about it, but I'm pretty sure FGM isn't mandated in the Quran. Therefore not part of the religion. And I fully well know that female infanticide isn't a part of Sikhism. But yet, the majority of Sikhs live in Punjab and I believe it has one of the worlds highest rates of infanticide. Someone looking in might think female infanticide is a part of Sikhism, or that Sikhism condones such practices. It illustrates to me that people are happier following their group-culture than they are in following their religion. In my own culture, half-naked pencil thin women are everywhere. The belief is that to be a proper woman you have to remove unwanted hair and be super skinny. These elements go against Sikhi and I find myself guilty of rooting for my own cultural ideas of removing hairs. It's such a deep-seated image in my tiny little Western psyche. I think, spnadmin ji, one of the points you're trying to make to me is that you can't have a group of people without a culture. My workplace has a culture. I've been enlisted to help change aspects of the organisational culture by consistently using different terms for things to try and dissolve the "us versus them" mentality of some of our teams. So, this group mentality thing is pervasive. I get it. It's going to exist no matter what. I don't know, I just wish people would just be nice and get along. Why people have to be so negative, look for negatives, be violent to others, be totally illogical and cruel (female children shouldn't be any less valuable than boy children, and bodies should be left intact not hacked to pieces -- why can't people see this???)? Why can't religion over-power these elements? Another good example is caste. So many Sikhs are still worried about caste even when the Gurus said it a million different ways that it's meaningless. I'm running myself around in circles now. :whatzpointkudi: But I still stand by the presenter's statement that humans get into trouble when they let cultural norms override their religious instruction. There has to be a clear separation between a cultural practice and a religious practice. It is easiest to see when you come from an alien culture and look at another culture's religion in theory. In practice it becomes culturafied. You can't have a universal religion without a universal culture. "What could be the Sikh Universal Culture"? Ishna Off to fix the cultures of the world, starting in her office kitchen! teehee... [/QUOTE]
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