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With your hands carve out your own destiny.

Guru Nanak

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth – these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
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Emperor Forget King Ocean Wealth
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
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
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Alone Bliss Meditation Soul Supreme
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
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High Live Truth Virtue
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.
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Blessing Live Vain Vision Wasted Whole
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
Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.
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Compassion Divine Guide Heart Listening Music Support Wisdom
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 .
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Abandonment Husband Marriage Son Woman
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
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
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar’s bowl.
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Beggar Bowl Compassionate Silence Wealth
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
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
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.
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Companion Creature Hill Pain Raise Slow
With your hands carve out your own destiny.
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Carve Destiny Hands Inspirational Yourself
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
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Ego Fake Illusion Trick

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

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