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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

There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.
GURU NANAK

Accompany Children God Yourself
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
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
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Children Production Reason Visible
Those 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.
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Conquer Focus Mindset Realization Understand
The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.
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Bride Sorrow Soul Suffering
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.
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Death Existence Home Peace Touch Yourself
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
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.
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Forever Land Oneself Wealth Wife
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
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
I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.
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Existence Identity Myself
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
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
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
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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End Heart Limitation Love Pen World Writing

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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