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Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Guru Nanak

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
Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.
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Forever Land Oneself Wealth Wife
Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.
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Build Comfortable Discipline Meditation Path
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
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
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
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Kind Plant Production
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
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
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
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
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God Reason Time
Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.
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Bad Death People True
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
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
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
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God Happiness Himself Servant
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

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