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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

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
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
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Eyes Form Oneself
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
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Fly Intellectual Shallow Sweet
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
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
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Ego Fake Illusion Trick
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
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Born Death Myself Philosophy
I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.
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Bird God Offering Prayer Song
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 word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord’s name But more is the one who knows by the Guru’s grace.
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God Grace Shrine Word
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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Appointment Daughter Each Other Father Purpose Widow
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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Compassion Divine Guide Heart Listening Music Support Wisdom
My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.
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Body Dedication Himself Mindset Pieces
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
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Creation Form God Himself Human
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
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Attachment Emotional Illusion Pain
The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.
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Death God Husband Light Praise Soul
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
Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
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Activity Evil Obstruct Talk
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
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
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.
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Animal Herself Himself Wife
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
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
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
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.
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Brother Father Himself Son Support
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
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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Death Deliver Man Property Widow
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

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