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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

Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.
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Blessing Live Vain Vision Wasted Whole
Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.
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Companion Creature Hill Pain Raise Slow
My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.
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Body Dedication Himself Mindset Pieces
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.
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Finding See Time True Yourself
I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
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Bliss Constant Ego Myself Night
O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.
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Blessing God Yourself
Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.
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Compassion Divine Guide Heart Listening Music Support Wisdom
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
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Creation Form God Himself Human
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
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Emperor God King Love Wealth
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
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
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
See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
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Conquer Kind Man World Yourself
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
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Flower Fragrance God Himself Reflection Search
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
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Born Death Myself Philosophy
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
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 .
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Abandonment Husband Marriage Son Woman
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.
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Death God Husband Light Praise Soul
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
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
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Kind Money Pilgrimage Sacred Shrine
Those who have loved are those that have found God.
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God Love Relationship
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
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Alone Bliss Meditation Soul Supreme
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 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 .
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Death Deliver Man Property Widow
Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over, this earth.
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Earth Instruction Religion Sacrifice
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.
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Fountain God Heart Love Rain

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