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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)
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Thittee (296-300)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
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Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
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<blockquote data-quote="linzer" data-source="post: 176898" data-attributes="member: 13900"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: #4f81bd"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The comments I've read in this thread generally dismissing the merit of yoga in Sikhi betray, quite frankly, the position of one who has never really tasted the experience. Discriptions like yoga is 'sitting in a corner, twiddling your thumbs, or sitting in silly postures, indulging in vain self-exploration rather than engaging in the real world' are the observations of one who has not genuinely tried Sikh Kundalini Yoga. I am not a salesman for this science, nor am I a member of Yogi Bhajan's community. I am simply saying, if we took the time to actually taste this science, rather than falling back on pat, uninformed dismissals of all yoga as self-indulgent, selfish and futile, we would learn that this Kundalini Yoga, is really just a art of extending our prayer and devotion into physical discipline. Done properly, it clears the mind, heightens awareness, strengthens the spine and body, teaches stamina and endurance, and, yes, might even give a feeling of transcendant joy and spiritual ecstasy. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: black">Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/hinduism/39509-yoga-reach-chauthaa-pada-fourth-state.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/hinduism/39509-yoga-reach-chauthaa-pada-fourth-state.html</span></span></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I guess I have the right to dismiss Yogi Bhajans brand of Kundalini Yoga. I went through the so called teacher training, as P.T. Barnum Said “there’s a sucker born every minute”. At least I wised up.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">For starters there is no such thing as Sikh Kundalini Yoga. There is Kundalini yoga which has its basis in the Tantras and Upanishads ( you might look up books by Swami Satyananda Saraswati )and there is Kundalini Yoga as invented by "Yogi" Bhajan which has its basis in the imagination of Bhajan. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I recommend reading Sikhism and Tantric Yoga by Trilochan Singh. Here’s a link to a free ebook </span></span><a href="http://www.gurmukhyoga.com/forum/index.php?mode=page&id=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">http://www.gurmukhyoga.com/forum/index.php?mode=page&id=1</span></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I got to tell you YB's type of yoga complete B.S. It's not science. Science has methodology. Science has reproducible results. Yogi? Fattest Yogi I ever saw. From the stand point of Kinesiology (real science) his exercises do real and lasting damage to the spine. They don't strengthen it. Ask me, I had to have months of therapy after damaging my low back doing “yoga as taught by yogi Bhajan." I know of many other people with the same problem.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">As part of my therapy I was told to take up swimming. So I guess I'm lucky. I love to swim. I find it much more meditative than YB's stupid meditations which by the way are not real meditation either. As a Sikh I find it offensive that he uses passages of the S.G.G.S like "Mantras”, telling students that it's not important to understand the meaning that the vibration of Shabad Guru will change you on a molecular level. “Oh Please.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Guru ji wrote Gurbani in the language of the people so that they could understand and apply to their lives not so it would vibrate their pineal gland or whatever.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">“Transcendent joy and spiritual ecstasy.”</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Or do you mean Mystic hysteria. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I have no problem with meditation but holding your arms in the air until they ache is not meditive. Some studies suggest that certain type of meditation can lower blood pressure. That's great something that can make you calmer person is helpful but if you’re too wrapped up in it, it becomes an addiction like anything else. That's why Guru ji didn't pass the Guru ship onto Siri Chand. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I don't have any problem with yoga as exercise when it well thought out and appropriate to the level of ability. This is not the case with Kundalini as taught by yogi bhajan.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">My personal view on chauthaa pada is that it doesn? do anyone any good if you achieve this state alone meditating. Where it would do the most good is in trying situations involving other people.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="linzer, post: 176898, member: 13900"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#4f81bd][FONT=Verdana]The comments I've read in this thread generally dismissing the merit of yoga in Sikhi betray, quite frankly, the position of one who has never really tasted the experience. Discriptions like yoga is 'sitting in a corner, twiddling your thumbs, or sitting in silly postures, indulging in vain self-exploration rather than engaging in the real world' are the observations of one who has not genuinely tried Sikh Kundalini Yoga. I am not a salesman for this science, nor am I a member of Yogi Bhajan's community. I am simply saying, if we took the time to actually taste this science, rather than falling back on pat, uninformed dismissals of all yoga as self-indulgent, selfish and futile, we would learn that this Kundalini Yoga, is really just a art of extending our prayer and devotion into physical discipline. Done properly, it clears the mind, heightens awareness, strengthens the spine and body, teaches stamina and endurance, and, yes, might even give a feeling of transcendant joy and spiritual ecstasy. [/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Calibri] [SIZE=3][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black]Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network [/COLOR][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/hinduism/39509-yoga-reach-chauthaa-pada-fourth-state.html"][COLOR=#0066cc][FONT=Verdana]http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/hinduism/39509-yoga-reach-chauthaa-pada-fourth-state.html[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I guess I have the right to dismiss Yogi Bhajans brand of Kundalini Yoga. I went through the so called teacher training, as P.T. Barnum Said “there’s a sucker born every minute”. At least I wised up.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]For starters there is no such thing as Sikh Kundalini Yoga. There is Kundalini yoga which has its basis in the Tantras and Upanishads ( you might look up books by Swami Satyananda Saraswati )and there is Kundalini Yoga as invented by "Yogi" Bhajan which has its basis in the imagination of Bhajan. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I recommend reading Sikhism and Tantric Yoga by Trilochan Singh. Here’s a link to a free ebook [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://www.gurmukhyoga.com/forum/index.php?mode=page&id=1"][COLOR=#0000ff]http://www.gurmukhyoga.com/forum/index.php?mode=page&id=1[/COLOR][/URL][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I got to tell you YB's type of yoga complete B.S. It's not science. Science has methodology. Science has reproducible results. Yogi? Fattest Yogi I ever saw. From the stand point of Kinesiology (real science) his exercises do real and lasting damage to the spine. They don't strengthen it. Ask me, I had to have months of therapy after damaging my low back doing “yoga as taught by yogi Bhajan." I know of many other people with the same problem.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]As part of my therapy I was told to take up swimming. So I guess I'm lucky. I love to swim. I find it much more meditative than YB's stupid meditations which by the way are not real meditation either. As a Sikh I find it offensive that he uses passages of the S.G.G.S like "Mantras”, telling students that it's not important to understand the meaning that the vibration of Shabad Guru will change you on a molecular level. “Oh Please.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Guru ji wrote Gurbani in the language of the people so that they could understand and apply to their lives not so it would vibrate their pineal gland or whatever.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]“Transcendent joy and spiritual ecstasy.”[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Or do you mean Mystic hysteria. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I have no problem with meditation but holding your arms in the air until they ache is not meditive. Some studies suggest that certain type of meditation can lower blood pressure. That's great something that can make you calmer person is helpful but if you’re too wrapped up in it, it becomes an addiction like anything else. That's why Guru ji didn't pass the Guru ship onto Siri Chand. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I don't have any problem with yoga as exercise when it well thought out and appropriate to the level of ability. This is not the case with Kundalini as taught by yogi bhajan.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]My personal view on chauthaa pada is that it doesn? do anyone any good if you achieve this state alone meditating. Where it would do the most good is in trying situations involving other people.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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