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Guru Nanak Quotes
«As many mouthfuls as an ignorant man swallows at a sacrifice to the gods or to the manes, so many red hot spikes, spears, and iron balls must the giver of the repast swallow after death.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«Oblations to the manes ought to be carefully presented to those devoted to knowledge, but offerings to the gods, in accordance with the reason of the sacred law , to men of all the four above mentioned classes .»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«But a present made in accordance with the rules to a learned man, makes the giver and the recipient partakers of rewards both in this life and after death.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«This is the chief rule to be followed in offering sacrifices to the gods and manes, know that the virtuous always observe the following subsidiary rule.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«One may also entertain on such occasions one s maternal grandfather, a maternal uncle, a sister s son, a father in law, one s teacher, a daughter s son, a daughter s husband, a cognate kinsman, one s own officiating priest or a man for whom one offers sacrifices.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«Physicians, temple priests, sellers of meat, and those who subsist by shop keeping must be avoided at sacrifices offered to the gods and to the manes.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«A paid servant of a village or of a king, man with deformed nails or black teeth, one who opposes his teacher, one who has forsaken the sacred fire, and a usurer.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«He who forsakes his mother, his father, or a teacher without a sufficient reason, he who has contracted an alliance with outcasts either through the Veda or through a marriage.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«A shepherd, a keeper of buffaloes, the husband of a remarried woman, and a carrier of dead bodies, all these must be carefully avoided.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«I will fully declare what result the giver obtains after death, if he gives food, destined for the gods or manes, to a man who is unworthy to sit in the company.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)