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Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

Guru Nanak

As 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 NANAK

Animal Herself Himself Wife
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
GURU NANAK

Children Production Reason Visible
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
Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.
GURU NANAK

Build Comfortable Discipline Meditation Path
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.
GURU NANAK

Appointment Born Forever Law Men Widow
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
The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.
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Bride Sorrow Soul Suffering
The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
GURU NANAK

Brother Creature Equality Religion Rise Universe
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 .
GURU NANAK

Abandonment Husband Marriage Son Woman
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
GURU NANAK

Constant Foot Myself Way
Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.
GURU NANAK

Bad Death People True
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
I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.
GURU NANAK

Bird God Offering Prayer Song
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

Brother Family Himself Live Occupation Property Share
The world is a drama, staged in a dream.
GURU NANAK

Drama Dreams One Liner Stage World
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone.
GURU NANAK

Ancestor Faith Heaven Performance Religious Service Wife

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