Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak pronunciation was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated world-wide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Kartik Pooranmashi, the full-moon day in the month of Katak, October–November...
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth15 April 1469
CityPunjab, Pakistan
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O my mind, the treasure is deep within you, do not search for it on the outside.
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one must worship by ,gifts of food sacred to gods and manes, but one must avoid those who are different.
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A son whom a damsel secretly bears in the house of her father, one shall name the son of an unmarried damsel and declare such offspring of an unmarried girl ,to belong to him who weds her ,afterwards .
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Let him gently pour out the remainder of the water near the cakes, and, with fixed attention, smell those cakes, in the order in which they were placed on the ground .
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Having detected them by means of trustworthy persons, who, disguising themselves, ,pretend to follow the same occupations and by means of spies, wearing various disguises, he must cause them to be instigated ,to commit offences , and bring them into his power.
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Since that ,time the virtuous censure that ,man who in his folly appoints a woman, whose husband died, to ,bear children ,to another man .
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During fifteen years the manes do not eat ,the food of that man who disdains a ,freely offered gift , nor does the fire carry his offerings ,to the gods .
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Those two creatures, who are born of wives of other men, cause to the giver the loss of the rewards , both in this life and after death, for the food sacred to gods or manes which has been given to them .
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The ornaments which may have been worn by women during their husbands lifetime, his heirs shall not divide, those who divide them become outcasts.
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Very fortunate is that bride who focuses her consciousness on Him, her Lord s Love is so sweet to her.
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Those who worship in adoration the Name of the Lord, their pain, doubt and fear are dispelled.
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Those who are appointed to guard provinces and his vassals who have been ordered ,to help , he shall speedily punish like thieves, ,if they remain inactive in attacks ,by robbers .
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Those humble beings engage in the Lord s trade, who have the jewel of such pre ordained destiny upon their foreheads.
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We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman