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«The elder brother who marries after the younger, the younger brother who marries before the elder, the female with whom such a marriage is contracted, he who gives her away, and the sacrificing priest, as the fifth, all fall into hell.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«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 .»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«The foolish giver of a funeral repast does not reap the reward for as many worthy guests as a man, inadmissible into company, can look on while they are feeding.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«A blind man by his presence causes to the giver of the feast the loss of the reward for ninety guests , a one eyed man for sixty, one who suffers from white leprosy for a hundred, and one punished by a terrible disease for a thousand.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«Food given to a seller of Soma becomes ordure, that given to a physician pus and blood, but that presented to a temple priest is lost, and that given to a usurer finds no place in the world of the gods .»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«But the wise declare that the food which is offered to other unholy, inadmissible men, enumerated above, is turned into adipose secretions, blood, flesh, marrow, and bone.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«The manes are primeval deities, free from anger, careful of purity, ever chaste, averse from strife, and endowed with great virtues.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«Now learn fully from whom all these manes derive their origin, and with what ceremonies they ought to be worshipped.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«But know also that there exist in this world countless sons and grandsons of those chief classes of manes which have been enumerated.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«Even water offered with faith to the manes in vessels made of silver or adorned with silver, produces endless bliss .»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
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