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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="max314" data-source="post: 47895" data-attributes="member: 2817"><p>If you agree with <em>anything</em> I say, then instead of trying to "learn from [me]", just go back to <em>gurbani</em> and learn from <strong>it</strong>...because that's from where I get everything I say.</p><p></p><p>However, don't rely on third-hand interpretations of <em>gurbani</em>. Understand the context, understand the poetry, understand the overall purpose of what <em>gurbani</em> is about. And then, make your own deductions, using logic and common sense, as to what it's all about.</p><p></p><p>There is, however, one very small but invaluable thing I will share with you:</p><p></p><p>Imagine that the philosophy of Sikkhism is a large house or a mansion. That mansion has a number of smaller doors that take you through different routes, but essentially lead to that same grand hallway in the middle of the house.</p><p></p><p>People have all gotten so used to using these smaller doors, because they're so excited by the smaller, lavish-looking rooms they walk past. In fact, most people have decided that they won't even continue on their journey to the Great Hall...they rather like it in one of these smaller rooms. But there are a few who don't stop at those rooms, and manage to arrive at the wonderful Great Hall, and couldn't possible to back to those smaller rooms.</p><p></p><p>People have, in fact, become so used to using those smaller doors that the Great Door - which, as the front door, would be the most direct access point to the Great Hall - has fallen into almost complete disuse. But those who brush away the vines and rediscover the simplicity of the Truth can't help but feel sorry for or feel like helping those stuck in other locations within the house, because they know how easy it is!</p><p></p><p>Most of the world religions in their existing forms, and most of the interpretations I have encountered of Sikkhism are this "small door" route. Some people get trapped in insignificant practices and routines along the way, but some are able to transcend that completely and realise that 'religion' actually has no meaning, and that it is merely a sugar-coated topping designed to make people feel as though the Cosmic and the Divine is somehow in their control.</p><p></p><p>However, the Pure Path through Sikkhi is like that Great Door.</p><p></p><p>You just need the key.</p><p></p><p>And where is the key?</p><p></p><p>It's under the welcome mat of the Great Door...it's called the <em><strong>mool mantra</strong></em>.</p><p></p><p>If you can understand that this one simple passage is the essence to <strong>every <em>shabbad</em> written in <em>gurbani</em></strong>, things will start to make sense to you in a way you never conceived. Every philosophical musing by every philosophical mind will suddenly fall into place. Every religion's interpretation of God will start to make sense. The <em>mool mantra</em> is, for human beings, the closest thing to magic you can find.</p><p></p><p>Master the meaning of the <em>mool mantra</em>, and you will have mastered the meaning of life and the universe itself.</p><p></p><p>I'm no 'wise man' (to the contrary, I consider myself rather foolish). I'm not in any way more 'learned' than anyone else.</p><p></p><p>The only quality I have, if anything at all, is that I try and keep my ego at bay.</p><p></p><p>Because I try and do this (to varying degrees of success <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> ), I am able to let go of beliefs that I had invested in that were told to me by other people, and I subsequently free myself to being able to learn the Truth in the purest form it can be learned by a limited human mind.</p><p></p><p>And <em>that</em> is true freedom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="max314, post: 47895, member: 2817"] If you agree with [I]anything[/I] I say, then instead of trying to "learn from [me]", just go back to [I]gurbani[/I] and learn from [B]it[/B]...because that's from where I get everything I say. However, don't rely on third-hand interpretations of [I]gurbani[/I]. Understand the context, understand the poetry, understand the overall purpose of what [I]gurbani[/I] is about. And then, make your own deductions, using logic and common sense, as to what it's all about. There is, however, one very small but invaluable thing I will share with you: Imagine that the philosophy of Sikkhism is a large house or a mansion. That mansion has a number of smaller doors that take you through different routes, but essentially lead to that same grand hallway in the middle of the house. People have all gotten so used to using these smaller doors, because they're so excited by the smaller, lavish-looking rooms they walk past. In fact, most people have decided that they won't even continue on their journey to the Great Hall...they rather like it in one of these smaller rooms. But there are a few who don't stop at those rooms, and manage to arrive at the wonderful Great Hall, and couldn't possible to back to those smaller rooms. People have, in fact, become so used to using those smaller doors that the Great Door - which, as the front door, would be the most direct access point to the Great Hall - has fallen into almost complete disuse. But those who brush away the vines and rediscover the simplicity of the Truth can't help but feel sorry for or feel like helping those stuck in other locations within the house, because they know how easy it is! Most of the world religions in their existing forms, and most of the interpretations I have encountered of Sikkhism are this "small door" route. Some people get trapped in insignificant practices and routines along the way, but some are able to transcend that completely and realise that 'religion' actually has no meaning, and that it is merely a sugar-coated topping designed to make people feel as though the Cosmic and the Divine is somehow in their control. However, the Pure Path through Sikkhi is like that Great Door. You just need the key. And where is the key? It's under the welcome mat of the Great Door...it's called the [I][B]mool mantra[/B][/I]. If you can understand that this one simple passage is the essence to [b]every [i]shabbad[/i] written in [i]gurbani[/i][/b], things will start to make sense to you in a way you never conceived. Every philosophical musing by every philosophical mind will suddenly fall into place. Every religion's interpretation of God will start to make sense. The [i]mool mantra[/i] is, for human beings, the closest thing to magic you can find. Master the meaning of the [i]mool mantra[/i], and you will have mastered the meaning of life and the universe itself. I'm no 'wise man' (to the contrary, I consider myself rather foolish). I'm not in any way more 'learned' than anyone else. The only quality I have, if anything at all, is that I try and keep my ego at bay. Because I try and do this (to varying degrees of success :D ), I am able to let go of beliefs that I had invested in that were told to me by other people, and I subsequently free myself to being able to learn the Truth in the purest form it can be learned by a limited human mind. And [i]that[/i] is true freedom. [/QUOTE]
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