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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

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.
GURU NANAK

Existence Identity Myself
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.
GURU NANAK

Body Bride Growth Ignorance Love Old Pain Suffering Widow
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
GURU NANAK

Children Production Reason Visible
As a father ,supports his sons, so let the eldest support his younger brothers, and let them also in accordance with the law behave towards their eldest brother as sons ,behave.
GURU NANAK

Brother Father Himself Son Support
Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.
GURU NANAK

Blessing God Meditation Name True
No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter, sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.
GURU NANAK

Adversity Auspicious Burnt Care Follow Purity
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
GURU NANAK

High Live Truth Virtue
Those who have loved are those that have found God.
GURU NANAK

God Love Relationship
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 .
GURU NANAK

Abandonment Husband Marriage Son Woman
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
GURU NANAK

Eyes Form Oneself
He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a, man , is called a son self given.
GURU NANAK

Abandoned Himself Lost Man Parents
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.
GURU NANAK

Blood Cleaning Food God Hands Sacred
Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.
GURU NANAK

Build Comfortable Discipline Meditation Path
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
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
GURU NANAK

Born Death Myself Philosophy
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 NANAK

Kind Plant Preparation Quality Seed

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.

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