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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

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
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Appearance Aspect Ignorance Limitation State
The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.
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Bride Sorrow Soul Suffering
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
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Born Death Myself Philosophy
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
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
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Ego Fake Illusion Trick
He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a, man , is called a son self given.
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Abandoned Himself Lost Man Parents
I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.
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Bird God Offering Prayer Song
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
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
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
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar’s bowl.
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Beggar Bowl Compassionate Silence Wealth
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.
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Body Bride Growth Ignorance Love Old Pain Suffering Widow
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
Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.
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Architect Fake Karma Love
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
The world is a drama, staged in a dream.
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Drama Dreams One Liner Stage World

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.

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