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Guru Nanak Quotes

«Thus she will bring forth a son who will be long lived, famous, intelligent, rich, the father of numerous offspring, endowed with the quality of goodness, and righteous.»
«Having washed his hands and sipped water, let him prepare food for his paternal relations and, after giving it to them with due respect, let him feed his maternal relatives also.»
«I will now fully declare what kind of sacrificial food, given to the manes according to the rule, will serve for a long time or for eternity.»
«Ten months they are satisfied with the meat of boars and buffaloes, but eleven months indeed with that of hares and tortoises.»
«Whatever a man , full of faith, duly gives according to the prescribed rule, that becomes in the other world a perpetual and imperishable gratification for the manes.»
«The days of the dark half of the month, beginning with the tenth, but excepting the fourteenth, are recommended for a funeral sacrifice, it is not thus with the others.»
«As the second half of the month is preferable to the first half, even so the afternoon is better for the performance of a funeral sacrifice than the forenoon.»
«Let him offer here below a funeral sacrifice, according to the rule given above, at least thrice a year, in winter, in summer, and in the rainy season, but that which is included among the five great sacrifices, every day.»
«For the purpose of gaining bare subsistence, let him accumulate property by ,following those irreproachable occupations ,which are prescribed for his ,caste , without ,unduly fatiguing his body.»
«He may either possess enough to fill a granary, or a store filling a grain jar, or he may collect what suffices for three days, or make no provision for the morrow.»

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