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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

The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
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Brother Creature Equality Religion Rise Universe
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 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
Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.
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Blessing God Meditation Name True
May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.
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Faith Knowledge Man Need
By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.
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Appointment Born Forever Law Men Widow
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
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
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.
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Kind Plant Preparation Quality Seed
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
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Attachment Emotional Illusion Pain
Speak only that which will bring you honor.
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Respect Talk Willing
Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
GURU NANAK

Death Existence Home Peace Touch Yourself
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
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
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.
GURU NANAK

Brother Father Himself Son Support

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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