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My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.

Guru Nanak

With your hands carve out your own destiny.
GURU NANAK

Carve Destiny Hands Inspirational Yourself
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
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 .
GURU NANAK

Death Deliver Man Property Widow
May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.
GURU NANAK

Faith Knowledge Man Need
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
GURU NANAK

God Happiness Himself Servant
The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.
GURU NANAK

Bride Sorrow Soul Suffering
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
GURU NANAK

Appearance Aspect Ignorance Limitation State
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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Herself Husband Loyalty Man Punishment Sick Sin
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
GURU NANAK

God Reason Time
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
GURU NANAK

Kind Money Pilgrimage Sacred Shrine
Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.
GURU NANAK

Blessing Live Vain Vision Wasted Whole
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 NANAK

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.
GURU NANAK

Herself Night Silence Son
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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Body Bride Growth Ignorance Love Old Pain Suffering Widow
Speak only that which will bring you honor.
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Respect Talk Willing
There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.
GURU NANAK

Accompany Children God Yourself

My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.

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