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Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

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.
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Blood Cleaning Food God Hands Sacred
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.
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Herself Night Silence Son
If an appointed daughter by accident dies without, leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.
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Accident Daughter Death Estate Hesitation Leaving
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
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High Live Truth Virtue
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
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth – these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
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Emperor Forget King Ocean Wealth
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.
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Assumption Man Ocean Quality River Unity Woman
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.
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Adversity Auspicious Burnt Care Follow Purity
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
Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
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Activity Evil Obstruct Talk
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
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Eyes Form Oneself
The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.
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Bride Sorrow Soul Suffering
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.
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Forever Land Oneself Wealth Wife
False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.
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Beautiful Body Clothes Fake
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.
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Avoid Desire Offend Pain Sacred Wealth
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

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