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

Guru Nanak

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.
GURU NANAK

Appointment Daughter Each Other Father Purpose Widow
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
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
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
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
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Alone Bliss Meditation Soul Supreme
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
Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.
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Bad Death People True
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
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
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
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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Companion Creature Hill Pain Raise Slow
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.
GURU NANAK

Kind Plant Preparation Quality Seed
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
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
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Ego Fake Illusion Trick
The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.
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Bride Sorrow Soul Suffering
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

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