Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
GURU NANAKTruth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
More Guru Nanak Quotes
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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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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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I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.
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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.
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Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over, this earth.
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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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Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
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I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
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I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
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Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
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My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.
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The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.
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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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If an appointed daughter by accident dies without, leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.
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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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