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ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
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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)
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Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
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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)
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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
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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
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<blockquote data-quote="Sinister" data-source="post: 61601" data-attributes="member: 2684"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">These will be the most honest answers that you will receive, so read carefully.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ff0000">Why am I a sikh? </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Your not</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ff0000">Why should I be? </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">You shouldn’t</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">What proof is there that I should believe</span></span><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">?</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">None</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Do I just need to have faith?</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">That won’t get you anywhere other than a superficial belief in rituals (and your smart enough to know that)</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aside from your meandering lectures on “the unexamined life is not worth living” and ill developed questions, I think you’re right on track in your life. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ff0000">I look forward to publishing some more posts and hopefully hearing some intellectual responses.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Sorry, in order to have an intellectual response you have to able to produce an intellectual question. Exactly what are you asking the members of this forum? </span></span>You are asking questions that you already know the answers to! </u></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">You are not the only one questioning the faith…at least come up with a developed question…synchronize your questions into one overarching thesis that covers a narrower sphere that a member can be discuss with impunity on a forum. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ff0000">But should a person really structure his/her belief system according to a viewpoint his/her parents held?</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Answer: NO</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I am in pursuit of achieving a greater understanding of the world around me.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">LOL good one. You keep at it. Ill praise you for this. I would recommend you stick to science if you truly are looking for “logic” in your explanations. Religion is more of a social and moral science thus is not always correlated to the stringent rules of nature. But as an intellectual shouldn't you already have this knowledge?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It essentially throws you in a position where logic cannot defeat your argument.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">So why ask it? unless you are here to preach. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ff0000">If you can provide any real factual evidence that shows me why you think I should be sikh (or heck even why you are a sikh) I might start reconsidering sikhism. I do not really want to hear "stop the nonsense, you are a sikh" or even "it's just something you have to believe".</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">why am I sikh: because i have tremendous respect for history.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Talk to me and I will have some discourse with you. Maybe we’ll both learn something in the process. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">PS: Keep your posts shorter because they are really boring!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">And don’t listen to skeptik, he seems deranged as it is with all his profanities (where are the moderators on this forum?) :down:</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sinister, post: 61601, member: 2684"] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=black][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]These will be the most honest answers that you will receive, so read carefully.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#ff0000][/COLOR][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#ff0000]Why am I a sikh? [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Your not[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#ff0000]Why should I be? [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]You shouldn’t[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=red][FONT=Tahoma]What proof is there that I should believe[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma]?[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]None[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#5b5b5b][/COLOR][COLOR=red][FONT=Tahoma]Do I just need to have faith?[/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]That won’t get you anywhere other than a superficial belief in rituals (and your smart enough to know that)[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Aside from your meandering lectures on “the unexamined life is not worth living” and ill developed questions, I think you’re right on track in your life. [/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#ff0000]I look forward to publishing some more posts and hopefully hearing some intellectual responses.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U][COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma]Sorry, in order to have an intellectual response you have to able to produce an intellectual question. Exactly what are you asking the members of this forum? [/FONT][/COLOR]You are asking questions that you already know the answers to! [/U][/B][B][U][COLOR=#5b5b5b][/COLOR][/U][/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]You are not the only one questioning the faith…at least come up with a developed question…synchronize your questions into one overarching thesis that covers a narrower sphere that a member can be discuss with impunity on a forum. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#ff0000][/COLOR][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#ff0000]But should a person really structure his/her belief system according to a viewpoint his/her parents held?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Answer: NO[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=red][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]I am in pursuit of achieving a greater understanding of the world around me.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=red][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]LOL good one. You keep at it. Ill praise you for this. I would recommend you stick to science if you truly are looking for “logic” in your explanations. Religion is more of a social and moral science thus is not always correlated to the stringent rules of nature. But as an intellectual shouldn't you already have this knowledge?[/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=red][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]It essentially throws you in a position where logic cannot defeat your argument.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]So why ask it? unless you are here to preach. [/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#ff0000]If you can provide any real factual evidence that shows me why you think I should be sikh (or heck even why you are a sikh) I might start reconsidering sikhism. I do not really want to hear "stop the nonsense, you are a sikh" or even "it's just something you have to believe". [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT='Times New Roman']why am I sikh: because i have tremendous respect for history.[/FONT] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Talk to me and I will have some discourse with you. Maybe we’ll both learn something in the process. [/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]PS: Keep your posts shorter because they are really boring![/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]And don’t listen to skeptik, he seems deranged as it is with all his profanities (where are the moderators on this forum?) :down:[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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