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Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Guru Nanak

Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.
GURU NANAK

Forever Land Oneself Wealth Wife
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
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Kind Money Pilgrimage Sacred Shrine
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.
GURU NANAK

Herself Night Silence Son
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 NANAK

Ancestor Faith Heaven Performance Religious Service Wife
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
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth – these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
GURU NANAK

Emperor Forget King Ocean Wealth
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
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Alone Bliss Meditation Soul Supreme
Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
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Activity Evil Obstruct Talk
I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
GURU NANAK

Bliss Constant Ego Myself Night
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
GURU NANAK

Live Man Teacher World
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
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Ancient Caste Children Man Myself Young
See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
GURU NANAK

Conquer Kind Man World Yourself
If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears, a son, he is called the son of a re married woman .
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Abandonment Husband Marriage Son Woman
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
GURU NANAK

Fly Intellectual Shallow Sweet
If an appointed daughter by accident dies without, leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.
GURU NANAK

Accident Daughter Death Estate Hesitation Leaving
O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.
GURU NANAK

Blessing God Yourself

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