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The world is a drama, staged in a dream.

Guru Nanak

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
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
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Ancient Caste Children Man Myself Young
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
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
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
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
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
I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
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Bliss Constant Ego Myself Night
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
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Flower Fragrance God Himself Reflection Search
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
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Emperor God King Love Wealth
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
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
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
See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
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Conquer Kind Man World Yourself
O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.
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Blessing God Yourself
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
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Constant Foot Myself Way

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