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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="Archived_member15" data-source="post: 176177" data-attributes="member: 17438"><p>I say good! Hopefully it will help more people reach an enlightened belief that is fully their own rather than simply a leftover from their upbringing or culture. Most forms of religion today are in generally poor shape. It is individual believers within these faiths who light them up. </p><p> </p><p>Atheism is founded upon reasoned observations of the world and is often arrived at after an independent investigation. </p><p> </p><p>Religion - and by that I exclude absolutely none of the world religions -needs purified from an obsession with manmade customs, vain adherence to lifeless creeds that hold no meaning for people in the 21st century, cultural and mythical elements and simplistic understandings of God or the afterlife, amidst a myriad of other things. </p><p> </p><p>True religion changes peoples' lives for the better and inspires so many people in our world today to do acts of immense charity and humanity without any thought for self. </p><p> </p><p>Atheism however represents a chance for believers of every faith to purify their religious beliefs and their conception of God/supreme reality. </p><p> </p><p>I welcome it. </p><p> </p><p>Religion will only succeed in Europe again, as it does still in the rest of the world (Christianity is, for example, the fastest growing religion in Africa and China) when it becomes once again a force for change for the better of individual people rather than being itself corrupted by individual people. </p><p> </p><p>I am reminded of the famous words of a certain high-profile Cardinal of the Catholic Church during the Renaissance, who spoke these powerful words (that I think are very in tune with Sikhi) in the opening speech of the Fifth Lateran Council: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>And so I give to you the modern Catholic mystic (and convert from Atheism), Simone Weil (brought up in a secular Jewish family), who explained thus: </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Hence why Saint Edith Stein, a Catholic martyr of the Holocaust who died in a concentration camp because of her Jewish ethnicity (she converted from Judaism to Catholicism after a wander into agnosticism/atheism), once said about her mentor from her agnostic/atheist days: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The most daring forms of orthodox Catholic mysticism are quite akin to atheism anyway. </p><p> </p><p>There is a tradition of what is known by academics as "mystical atheism" in Catholic mysticism. Obviously, ordinary lay Catholics don't often think of it in this way but scholars do. A Vajrayana Buddhist online once asked me to explain it to him. He said: </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An example: </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In fact Sam Harris, the famed atheist neuroscientist, admitted last year that he enjoys reading Catholic and Indian mystics and actually "gets" them: </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is practically a form of religious atheism within a Catholic context: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>God doesn't exist. Many theists probably believe in a God they have thought up in their own head, one who corresponds to their personal needs, a comfort and a crutch to lean upon. That God, the God of "reward and punishment", the God of nationalisms and narrow belief systems, he <em>certainly</em> doesn't exist. I would be more than happy to let that God die and write the obituary for him and all the suffering he has caused countless human beings through meaningless wars, upheavals and rattling them with all kinds of unnecessary guilt and self-loathing. The worship of this God is idolatry, a subtle form of idolatry, that I am sure many people are innocently guilty of. Atheists are some of the few people on earth who are not guilty of this idolatry and for that alone they would warrant my respect.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I therefore have a very positive view of atheism in general mundahugAnd what's more many of them live highly principled lives under the auspices of such modern ethical systems as Secular Humanism and without any hope of a heavenly reward, they do it out of the sheer goodness of their humanity and empathy for their suffering brothers and sisters. That gets a huge thumbs up from me! </p><p> </p><p>What I find dangerous is not atheism (the denial of God and even an afterlife) but <em>materialism </em>and the sating of lusts, a kind of 'enjoy yourself and be a hedonist' attitude which is often falsely promoted as real atheism by popular writers of books and which gives a terrible example to confused young people today who want something more from life. The false gospel of "do as you please" materialism is the true sickness affecting Western civilisation, not principled atheists. </p><p> </p><p>BTW I do believe that pure religion will never vanish, only corrupted/stale manifestations of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_member15, post: 176177, member: 17438"] I say good! Hopefully it will help more people reach an enlightened belief that is fully their own rather than simply a leftover from their upbringing or culture. Most forms of religion today are in generally poor shape. It is individual believers within these faiths who light them up. Atheism is founded upon reasoned observations of the world and is often arrived at after an independent investigation. Religion - and by that I exclude absolutely none of the world religions -needs purified from an obsession with manmade customs, vain adherence to lifeless creeds that hold no meaning for people in the 21st century, cultural and mythical elements and simplistic understandings of God or the afterlife, amidst a myriad of other things. True religion changes peoples' lives for the better and inspires so many people in our world today to do acts of immense charity and humanity without any thought for self. Atheism however represents a chance for believers of every faith to purify their religious beliefs and their conception of God/supreme reality. I welcome it. Religion will only succeed in Europe again, as it does still in the rest of the world (Christianity is, for example, the fastest growing religion in Africa and China) when it becomes once again a force for change for the better of individual people rather than being itself corrupted by individual people. I am reminded of the famous words of a certain high-profile Cardinal of the Catholic Church during the Renaissance, who spoke these powerful words (that I think are very in tune with Sikhi) in the opening speech of the Fifth Lateran Council: [SIZE=3][/SIZE] And so I give to you the modern Catholic mystic (and convert from Atheism), Simone Weil (brought up in a secular Jewish family), who explained thus: Hence why Saint Edith Stein, a Catholic martyr of the Holocaust who died in a concentration camp because of her Jewish ethnicity (she converted from Judaism to Catholicism after a wander into agnosticism/atheism), once said about her mentor from her agnostic/atheist days: The most daring forms of orthodox Catholic mysticism are quite akin to atheism anyway. There is a tradition of what is known by academics as "mystical atheism" in Catholic mysticism. Obviously, ordinary lay Catholics don't often think of it in this way but scholars do. A Vajrayana Buddhist online once asked me to explain it to him. He said: An example: In fact Sam Harris, the famed atheist neuroscientist, admitted last year that he enjoys reading Catholic and Indian mystics and actually "gets" them: [B][/B] This is practically a form of religious atheism within a Catholic context: God doesn't exist. Many theists probably believe in a God they have thought up in their own head, one who corresponds to their personal needs, a comfort and a crutch to lean upon. That God, the God of "reward and punishment", the God of nationalisms and narrow belief systems, he [I]certainly[/I] doesn't exist. I would be more than happy to let that God die and write the obituary for him and all the suffering he has caused countless human beings through meaningless wars, upheavals and rattling them with all kinds of unnecessary guilt and self-loathing. The worship of this God is idolatry, a subtle form of idolatry, that I am sure many people are innocently guilty of. Atheists are some of the few people on earth who are not guilty of this idolatry and for that alone they would warrant my respect. I therefore have a very positive view of atheism in general mundahugAnd what's more many of them live highly principled lives under the auspices of such modern ethical systems as Secular Humanism and without any hope of a heavenly reward, they do it out of the sheer goodness of their humanity and empathy for their suffering brothers and sisters. That gets a huge thumbs up from me! What I find dangerous is not atheism (the denial of God and even an afterlife) but [I]materialism [/I]and the sating of lusts, a kind of 'enjoy yourself and be a hedonist' attitude which is often falsely promoted as real atheism by popular writers of books and which gives a terrible example to confused young people today who want something more from life. The false gospel of "do as you please" materialism is the true sickness affecting Western civilisation, not principled atheists. BTW I do believe that pure religion will never vanish, only corrupted/stale manifestations of it. [/QUOTE]
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