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Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

Guru 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.
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Ancestor Faith Heaven Performance Religious Service Wife
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.
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Brother Family Himself Live Occupation Property Share
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
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
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Ego Fake Illusion Trick
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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Kind Plant Preparation Quality Seed
An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives, his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.
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Adoption Family Name Natural Son
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
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Born Death Myself Philosophy
As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter, or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus, it is with the wives of others.
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Animal Herself Himself Wife
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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Beggar Bowl Compassionate Silence Wealth
I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.
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Bird God Offering Prayer Song
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
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Kind Plant Production
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.
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Faith Knowledge Man Need
There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.
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Accompany Children God Yourself
The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord’s name But more is the one who knows by the Guru’s grace.
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God Grace Shrine Word
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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Existence Identity Myself
The world is a drama, staged in a dream.
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Drama Dreams One Liner Stage World

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