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Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar’s bowl.

Guru Nanak

An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives, his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.
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Adoption Family Name Natural Son
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar’s bowl.
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Beggar Bowl Compassionate Silence Wealth
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
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Ego Fake Illusion Trick
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don’t understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian
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Argument Eat Fools Lying Meditation Plant Sin Truth Understand
Speak only that which will bring you honor.
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Respect Talk Willing
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
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Children Production Reason Visible
My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.
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Body Dedication Himself Mindset Pieces
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
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Emperor God King Love Wealth
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
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Live Man Teacher World
O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.
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Fountain God Heart Love Rain
The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.
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Death God Husband Light Praise Soul
He, who is appointed to, cohabit with the widow shall, approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, and beget one son, by no means a second.
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Herself Night Silence Son
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
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Born Death Myself Philosophy
There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.
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Accompany Children God Yourself
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
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Flower Fragrance God Himself Reflection Search
Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.
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Blood Cleaning Food God Hands Sacred

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