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Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

Guru Nanak

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
GURU NANAK

God Reason Time
The True One was there from time immemorial. He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. … Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.
GURU NANAK

Finding See Time True Yourself
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
Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.
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Bad Death People True
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
The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
GURU NANAK

Brother Creature Equality Religion Rise Universe
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
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
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
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
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
O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.
GURU NANAK

Fountain God Heart Love Rain
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
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar’s bowl.
GURU NANAK

Beggar Bowl Compassionate Silence Wealth
False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.
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Beautiful Body Clothes Fake
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

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

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