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I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Guru Nanak

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.
GURU NANAK

Blessing Live Vain Vision Wasted Whole
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.
GURU NANAK

Herself Night Silence Son
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 .
GURU NANAK

Death Deliver Man Property Widow
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.
GURU NANAK

Death God Husband Light Praise Soul
Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.
GURU NANAK

Compassion Divine Guide Heart Listening Music Support Wisdom
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.
GURU NANAK

Conquer Focus Mindset Realization Understand
Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.
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Bad Death People True
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar’s bowl.
GURU NANAK

Beggar Bowl Compassionate Silence Wealth
With your hands carve out your own destiny.
GURU NANAK

Carve Destiny Hands Inspirational Yourself
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
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
GURU NANAK

Alone Bliss Meditation Soul Supreme
O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.
GURU NANAK

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

Kind Money Pilgrimage Sacred Shrine
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
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
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.
GURU NANAK

Adversity Auspicious Burnt Care Follow Purity

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