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ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
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Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
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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)
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Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
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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_member15" data-source="post: 163008" data-attributes="member: 17438"><p>Some more short quotes: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px">"...For those who look with their physical eyes, God is nowhere to be seen. For those who contemplate Him in spirit, He is everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all...." </span>[/FONT]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><em>- Saint Symeon the Stylite (c. 390 – 459), Catholic mystic</em></strong></span>[/FONT]</p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px">"...What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment...The one work we should rightly undertake is eradication of the Self. Could you completely forget yourself even for an instant, you would be given everything...God <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">is closer to me than I am to myself...When the soul has lost her nature in the Oneness, we can no longer speak of a 'soul' - but of immeasurable Being...I AM can be spoken by no creature but by God alone. I must become God and God must become me, so completely that we share the same 'I' eternally. Our truest 'I' is God...While she (thy soul) lacks union she has never really loved God, for actual love lies in union, if thou lovest God as God, as spirit, as Person or as image, that must all go. "Then how shall I love him?" Love him as he is: a not-God, a not-spirit, a not-Person, a not-image; as sheer, pure, limpid unity, alien from all duality. And in this one let us sink down eternally from nothingness to nothingness...</span>"</span> </span>[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT] </p><p>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] </p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><em>- Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 – c. 1327), Catholic Mystic & priest </em></strong></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"...If your heart is straight with God, then every creature will appear to you as a mirror of life and a sacred scripture. No creature is so small and insignificant so as not to express and demonstrate the goodness of God...I discovered myself to be nothing but nothing; an unweighable substance; a sea that cannot be sailed. In You and by You, I find that I exist as nothing but nothing..." </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12px">- Blessed Thomas Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (c. 1380 – 1471), Catholic mystic</span></em></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p>[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px">"...It is greater worship to God to see Him in all things, than in any special thing...God said to me in the depths of my soul: '</span>[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px">I am that which is highest. I am that which is lowest. I am that which is All'..." </span></span>[/FONT]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><em>- Blessed Julian of Norwich (1342 –1416), Catholic mystic</em></strong></span></span>[/FONT]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"...God presents himself in the inmost depths of my soul. I understand not only that he is present, but also how he is present. I have seen the One who is, and how He is the Being of all creatures. God is present in everything that exists, in a devil and a good angel, in heaven and hell, in good deeds and in adultery and murder, in the beautiful and the ugly. Therfore, while I am in this Truth, I take as much delight in seeing and understanding his presence in a devil and the act of adultery as I do in an angel and a good deed. The world is pregnant with God...He who loves with not only a part of himself, but the whole, transforms himself into the thing beloved..."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">- Blessed Angela of Foligna (c. 1248 – 1309), Catholic mystic</span></span></em></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px">"...God inhabits every soul, even those of the greatest sinners in the world. There is always this union between God and His creatures, for through it He preserves their being. If it were not so, these souls would instantly cease to be..." </span>[/FONT]</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><em>- Saint John of the Cross (1542 – 1591), Catholic mystic</em></strong></span>[/FONT]</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px">"...Our essential nature is uncreated, never-born and free in and for itself. It is found in all creatures, but is not restricted to them; it is outside all creatures, but not excluded from them...." </span>[/FONT]</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><em>- The Cloud of Unknowing, written in the 14th century (Classic text of Catholic mysticism)</em></strong></span>[/FONT]</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px"><em><strong>"....</strong></em>Man, if thou something love, True love thou dost not know;</span>[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]God is not this or that, So let the something go.<em>..." </em>[/FONT]</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><em>- <span style="color: black">Angelus Silesius (1624 – 1677), German Catholic mystic and convert from Protestantism</span></em></strong></span>[/FONT]</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_member15, post: 163008, member: 17438"] Some more short quotes: [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3]"...For those who look with their physical eyes, God is nowhere to be seen. For those who contemplate Him in spirit, He is everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all...." [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3][B][I]- Saint Symeon the Stylite (c. 390 – 459), Catholic mystic[/I][/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3]"...What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment...The one work we should rightly undertake is eradication of the Self. Could you completely forget yourself even for an instant, you would be given everything...God [FONT=Verdana][FONT=Arial]is closer to me than I am to myself...When the soul has lost her nature in the Oneness, we can no longer speak of a 'soul' - but of immeasurable Being...I AM can be spoken by no creature but by God alone. I must become God and God must become me, so completely that we share the same 'I' eternally. Our truest 'I' is God...While she (thy soul) lacks union she has never really loved God, for actual love lies in union, if thou lovest God as God, as spirit, as Person or as image, that must all go. "Then how shall I love him?" Love him as he is: a not-God, a not-spirit, a not-Person, a not-image; as sheer, pure, limpid unity, alien from all duality. And in this one let us sink down eternally from nothingness to nothingness...[/FONT]"[/FONT] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][I]- Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 – c. 1327), Catholic Mystic & priest [/I][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]"...If your heart is straight with God, then every creature will appear to you as a mirror of life and a sacred scripture. No creature is so small and insignificant so as not to express and demonstrate the goodness of God...I discovered myself to be nothing but nothing; an unweighable substance; a sea that cannot be sailed. In You and by You, I find that I exist as nothing but nothing..." [/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [B][I][SIZE=3]- Blessed Thomas Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (c. 1380 – 1471), Catholic mystic[/SIZE][/I][/B] [B][I][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/I][/B] [B][I][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/I][/B] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3]"...It is greater worship to God to see Him in all things, than in any special thing...God said to me in the depths of my soul: '[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][SIZE=3]I am that which is highest. I am that which is lowest. I am that which is All'..." [/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][SIZE=3][B][I]- Blessed Julian of Norwich (1342 –1416), Catholic mystic[/I][/B][/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT] [B][I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/I][/B] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]"...God presents himself in the inmost depths of my soul. I understand not only that he is present, but also how he is present. I have seen the One who is, and how He is the Being of all creatures. God is present in everything that exists, in a devil and a good angel, in heaven and hell, in good deeds and in adultery and murder, in the beautiful and the ugly. Therfore, while I am in this Truth, I take as much delight in seeing and understanding his presence in a devil and the act of adultery as I do in an angel and a good deed. The world is pregnant with God...He who loves with not only a part of himself, but the whole, transforms himself into the thing beloved..."[/SIZE][/FONT] [B][I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/I][/B] [B][I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]- Blessed Angela of Foligna (c. 1248 – 1309), Catholic mystic[/SIZE][/FONT][/I][/B] [B][I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/I][/B][SIZE=2] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3]"...God inhabits every soul, even those of the greatest sinners in the world. There is always this union between God and His creatures, for through it He preserves their being. If it were not so, these souls would instantly cease to be..." [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3][B][I]- Saint John of the Cross (1542 – 1591), Catholic mystic[/I][/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3]"...Our essential nature is uncreated, never-born and free in and for itself. It is found in all creatures, but is not restricted to them; it is outside all creatures, but not excluded from them...." [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3][B][I]- The Cloud of Unknowing, written in the 14th century (Classic text of Catholic mysticism)[/I][/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3][I][B]"....[/B][/I]Man, if thou something love, True love thou dost not know;[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]God is not this or that, So let the something go.[I]..." [/I][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=3][B][I]- [COLOR=black]Angelus Silesius (1624 – 1677), German Catholic mystic and convert from Protestantism[/COLOR][/I][/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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