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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.

Guru Nanak

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

Existence Identity Myself
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.
GURU NANAK

Faith Knowledge Man Need
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
GURU NANAK

Kind Plant Production
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.
GURU NANAK

Companion Creature Hill Pain Raise Slow
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.
GURU NANAK

Adoption Family Name Natural Son
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don’t understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian
GURU NANAK

Argument Eat Fools Lying Meditation Plant Sin Truth Understand
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.
GURU NANAK

Abandoned Himself Lost Man Parents
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.
GURU NANAK

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.
GURU NANAK

Avoid Desire Offend Pain Sacred Wealth
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
GURU NANAK

Creation Form God Himself Human
But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.
GURU NANAK

Herself Husband Loyalty Man Punishment Sick Sin
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
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
GURU NANAK

Flower Fragrance God Himself Reflection Search
Those who have loved are those that have found God.
GURU NANAK

God Love Relationship
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.
GURU NANAK

Animal Herself Himself Wife
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.
GURU NANAK

Blood Cleaning Food God Hands Sacred

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