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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="Siri Kamala" data-source="post: 138448" data-attributes="member: 13802"><p><strong>Jasleen ji (findingmyway)</strong>, you make good points. Here is where I continue to get stuck though...</p><p></p><p>I am reading<a href="http://www.gurmukhyoga.com/sikhism_and_tantric_yoga.pdf" target="_blank"> Dr. Trilochan Singh's expose on his interaction with YB and 3HO</a> and I guess what I find most disturbing is that there was little or nothing about Yogi Bhajan or his teachings that was remotely rooted in Sikhi other than his being born into a Sikh family and he told some people that what he was practicing and teaching them was part and parcel of Sikh practice.</p><p></p><p>Not only does <a href="http://www.rickross.com/reference/3ho/3ho83.html" target="_blank">the testimony of Premka Kaur Khalsa</a> (Pamela Dyson) indicate that his teachings barely touched on matters of Sikh faith or the wisdom of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, but this conversation between YB and Dr. Singh would indicate that YB freely <em><u>admitted</u></em> it was never about the Sikh faith for him so much as it was about perpetuating the "brand" of White Tantric yoga he had created.</p><p></p><p>Dr. Singh ji wrote:</p><p></p><p></p><p>That just made me shudder... :scared:</p><p></p><p>If I was born to ranchers on a farm in Texas, but I never really herded cattle or rode the range mending barbed wire fences, or lassoed a steer...though I could probably talk about these things based on things I've seen and heard back home...</p><p></p><p>And then I go off to India and put on chaps and a cowboy hat and start telling people in India who don't really know much (if anything) about cowboys that I'm going to teach them how to be good ranchers and cowboys, and part of that is that they have to put on white cowboy hats and wear white cowboy boots and white jeans, and sit around a campfire and sing cowboy songs while looking at a picture of me. And then beyond that I tell them that all good ranchers and cowboys are good jazz dancers*, and that in order to be true ranchers and cowboys, they must become so good at jazz dance that they can *teach* it to others in the name of having *them* become good cowboys... and I set up a whole jazz dance studio business called Cowpokes Unto Perpetuity (where we also sell Curried Cowpoke Baked Beans). Oh, and as it suits me, I occasionally grope and sexually accost my staff and get them to submit to it by telling them it will improve their dance skills and make them better cowboys...</p><p></p><p>*For anyone unfamiliar w/ jazz dance and/or American Cowboy culture, the joke there being that cowboys DO dance, but they do a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuRiXm_Yp5Y" target="_blank">Texas Two Step </a>or a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrNttCb5emY" target="_blank">Cotton-eyed Joe</a>, but they don't generally get into jazz dance steps...</p><p></p><p>Does that make me a genuine cowboy? :a37:</p><p></p><p>Does it make me anything that even remotely resembles a cowboy? </p><p></p><p>Or does it make me the equivalent of a sort of morally corrupt John Wayne, because I'm dressed up like a cowboy, and I play one in front of other people for money, but unlike John Wayne, I do this in a way that is ego-centered, exploitative, and harmful to others?</p><p></p><p>I'd be willing to give him at least *some* credit if there was any evidence whatsoever that he truly believed himself to be a Sikh and *wanted* to be a good Sikh, and that he was studying the words of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji with sincere good intent, and was truly able to teach people about the beauty of what it has to say. But based on everything he has said and everything I have read, he not only wasn't really teaching it, he wasn't even *familiar* with its words -- he'd just randomly find a passage to use and then make stuff up about what it meant, often saying things that were a complete distortion of what it was actually intended to communicate.</p><p></p><p>So... jeeminy... to me that would indicate he was no more a Sikh than he was a cowboy (and I'm generally the last person to be picking on anyone for "not being spiritually up-to-snuff," but even *I* have to draw the line somewhere...) I guess I'm surprised that anyone could read what Dr. Singh ji wrote and not be unnerved and disturbed by it sufficiently to call YB what he really was -- a charlatan and a criminal.</p><p></p><p>Mind you, there are a lot of Christian televangelists out there who live in fancy houses and ride around in $500,000 automobiles and wear expensive jewelry. I find it a little creepy and not really in keeping what Jesus taught, but so long as they're not hurting or exploiting anyone, breaking any laws, or completely distorting what the Bible says for their own purposes, I have no problem with their doing what they do. The same cannot be said of YB when he was alive. I know he's been gone several years now, but his organization still perpetuates a lot of the same non-Sikh tantric/kundalini nonsense that he preached without ever being intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, or factually honest with themselves or anyone else about what this man was really, ultimately about: his own ego.</p><p></p><p>As we say Down South, you can put lipstick and perfume on a hog, but at the end of the day, it's still a hog... :a36:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Siri Kamala, post: 138448, member: 13802"] [B]Jasleen ji (findingmyway)[/B], you make good points. Here is where I continue to get stuck though... I am reading[URL="http://www.gurmukhyoga.com/sikhism_and_tantric_yoga.pdf"] Dr. Trilochan Singh's expose on his interaction with YB and 3HO[/URL] and I guess what I find most disturbing is that there was little or nothing about Yogi Bhajan or his teachings that was remotely rooted in Sikhi other than his being born into a Sikh family and he told some people that what he was practicing and teaching them was part and parcel of Sikh practice. Not only does [URL="http://www.rickross.com/reference/3ho/3ho83.html"]the testimony of Premka Kaur Khalsa[/URL] (Pamela Dyson) indicate that his teachings barely touched on matters of Sikh faith or the wisdom of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, but this conversation between YB and Dr. Singh would indicate that YB freely [I][U]admitted[/U][/I] it was never about the Sikh faith for him so much as it was about perpetuating the "brand" of White Tantric yoga he had created. Dr. Singh ji wrote: That just made me shudder... :scared: If I was born to ranchers on a farm in Texas, but I never really herded cattle or rode the range mending barbed wire fences, or lassoed a steer...though I could probably talk about these things based on things I've seen and heard back home... And then I go off to India and put on chaps and a cowboy hat and start telling people in India who don't really know much (if anything) about cowboys that I'm going to teach them how to be good ranchers and cowboys, and part of that is that they have to put on white cowboy hats and wear white cowboy boots and white jeans, and sit around a campfire and sing cowboy songs while looking at a picture of me. And then beyond that I tell them that all good ranchers and cowboys are good jazz dancers*, and that in order to be true ranchers and cowboys, they must become so good at jazz dance that they can *teach* it to others in the name of having *them* become good cowboys... and I set up a whole jazz dance studio business called Cowpokes Unto Perpetuity (where we also sell Curried Cowpoke Baked Beans). Oh, and as it suits me, I occasionally grope and sexually accost my staff and get them to submit to it by telling them it will improve their dance skills and make them better cowboys... *For anyone unfamiliar w/ jazz dance and/or American Cowboy culture, the joke there being that cowboys DO dance, but they do a [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuRiXm_Yp5Y"]Texas Two Step [/url]or a [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrNttCb5emY"]Cotton-eyed Joe[/url], but they don't generally get into jazz dance steps... Does that make me a genuine cowboy? :a37: Does it make me anything that even remotely resembles a cowboy? Or does it make me the equivalent of a sort of morally corrupt John Wayne, because I'm dressed up like a cowboy, and I play one in front of other people for money, but unlike John Wayne, I do this in a way that is ego-centered, exploitative, and harmful to others? I'd be willing to give him at least *some* credit if there was any evidence whatsoever that he truly believed himself to be a Sikh and *wanted* to be a good Sikh, and that he was studying the words of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji with sincere good intent, and was truly able to teach people about the beauty of what it has to say. But based on everything he has said and everything I have read, he not only wasn't really teaching it, he wasn't even *familiar* with its words -- he'd just randomly find a passage to use and then make stuff up about what it meant, often saying things that were a complete distortion of what it was actually intended to communicate. So... jeeminy... to me that would indicate he was no more a Sikh than he was a cowboy (and I'm generally the last person to be picking on anyone for "not being spiritually up-to-snuff," but even *I* have to draw the line somewhere...) I guess I'm surprised that anyone could read what Dr. Singh ji wrote and not be unnerved and disturbed by it sufficiently to call YB what he really was -- a charlatan and a criminal. Mind you, there are a lot of Christian televangelists out there who live in fancy houses and ride around in $500,000 automobiles and wear expensive jewelry. I find it a little creepy and not really in keeping what Jesus taught, but so long as they're not hurting or exploiting anyone, breaking any laws, or completely distorting what the Bible says for their own purposes, I have no problem with their doing what they do. The same cannot be said of YB when he was alive. I know he's been gone several years now, but his organization still perpetuates a lot of the same non-Sikh tantric/kundalini nonsense that he preached without ever being intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, or factually honest with themselves or anyone else about what this man was really, ultimately about: his own ego. As we say Down South, you can put lipstick and perfume on a hog, but at the end of the day, it's still a hog... :a36: [/QUOTE]
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