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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.

Guru Nanak

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
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
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
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
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Attachment Emotional Illusion Pain
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
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
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.
GURU NANAK

Appearance Aspect Ignorance Limitation State
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
GURU NANAK

Flower Fragrance God Himself Reflection Search
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
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Ego Fake Illusion Trick
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
As a father ,supports his sons, so let the eldest support his younger brothers, and let them also in accordance with the law behave towards their eldest brother as sons ,behave.
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Brother Father Himself Son Support
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
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
GURU NANAK

Live Man Teacher World
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
Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.
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Blessing God Meditation
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.
GURU NANAK

Forever Land Oneself Wealth Wife
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
GURU NANAK

Emperor God King Love Wealth
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 .
GURU NANAK

Death Deliver Man Property Widow
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.
GURU NANAK

Adversity Auspicious Burnt Care Follow Purity
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
GURU NANAK

God Happiness Himself Servant
With your hands carve out your own destiny.
GURU NANAK

Carve Destiny Hands Inspirational Yourself
Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.
GURU NANAK

Compassion Divine Guide Heart Listening Music Support Wisdom
Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
GURU NANAK

Activity Evil Obstruct Talk
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
GURU NANAK

Fly Intellectual Shallow Sweet
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.
GURU NANAK

Earth Instruction Religion Sacrifice
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
GURU NANAK

High Live Truth Virtue
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
GURU NANAK

Kind Money Pilgrimage Sacred Shrine

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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