Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
GURU NANAKBe kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
GURU NANAKAs 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 NANAKEven kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth – these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
GURU NANAKO Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.
GURU NANAKExcluded 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.
GURU NANAKThe 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.
GURU NANAKIf an appointed daughter by accident dies without, leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.
GURU NANAKGiving 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.
GURU NANAKThose who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.
GURU NANAKThe 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 NANAKWhatever 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 NANAKBut 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 NANAKHe who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a, man , is called a son self given.
GURU NANAKIf 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.
GURU NANAKThe production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
GURU NANAKWhatever 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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