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I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

Guru Nanak

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
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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Adoption Family Name Natural Son
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
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
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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Ancestor Faith Heaven Performance Religious Service Wife
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
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
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
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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Appearance Aspect Ignorance Limitation State
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
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Live Man Teacher World
I don’t die, He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.
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Death God Immortal
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
Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over, this earth.
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Earth Instruction Religion Sacrifice
The True One was there from time immemorial. He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. … Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.
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Finding See Time True Yourself
Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.
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Blood Cleaning Food God Hands Sacred

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