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 NANAKTruth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
More Guru Nanak Quotes
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There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.
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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.
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Conquer your mind and conquer the world.
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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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Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth – these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
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When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.
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Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
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An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives, his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.
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One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
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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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See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
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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.
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Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.
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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 .
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Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
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I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
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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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I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
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Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
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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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