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Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

Guru Nanak

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

Body Dedication Himself Mindset Pieces
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
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
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.
GURU NANAK

Assumption Man Ocean Quality River Unity Woman
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.
GURU NANAK

End Heart Limitation Love Pen World Writing
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
With your hands carve out your own destiny.
GURU NANAK

Carve Destiny Hands Inspirational Yourself
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
Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
GURU NANAK

Activity Evil Obstruct Talk
I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.
GURU NANAK

Bird God Offering Prayer Song
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.
GURU NANAK

Herself Husband Loyalty Man Punishment Sick Sin
The world is a drama, staged in a dream.
GURU NANAK

Drama Dreams One Liner Stage World
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
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.
GURU NANAK

Animal Herself Himself Wife
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

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