Guru Nanak on property
Guru Nanak76 quotes“If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family, she shall deliver to that, son the whole property which belonged to the, deceased .”
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Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak If an appointed daughter by accident dies without, leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may be made separate ,by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Conquer your mind and conquer the world.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak 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.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.
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Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Social justice is group psychology, it’s group rights, it’s collectivisim, and it’s a negation of individual responsibility, which is what the Bible teaches. Individual responsibility. And of course, social justice leads very quickly to socialism, and ultimately to communism.
Ted CruzTed Cruz It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
Queen Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
Derrick LewisDerrick Lewis Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James MadisonJames Madison The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
James MadisonJames Madison The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
James MadisonJames Madison
