Great Throughts Treasury

"Among all twice born men the wife of equal caste alone, not a wife of a different caste by any means shall personally attend her husband and assist him in his daily sacred rites."

"Among the goods of every kind the eldest shall take the best article , and ,even a single chattel which is particularly good, as well as the best of ten animals."

"An adopted son shall never take the family ,name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives his son in adoption cease as far as that son is concerned ."

"Among them the open rogues are those who subsist by cheating in the sale of various marketable commodities but the concealed rogues are burglars, robbers in forests, and so forth."

"An eldest brother who through avarice may defraud the younger ones, shall no longer hold the position of the eldest, shall not receive an ,eldest son s additional share, and shall be punished by the king."

"As a father ,supports his sons, so let the eldest support his younger brothers, and let them also in accordance with the law behave towards their eldest brother as sons ,behave"

"And to this effect many sacred texts are sung also in the Vedas, in order to make fully known the true disposition ,of women , hear ,now those texts which refer to the expiation of their sins ."

"As fragrance abides in the flower as reflection is within the mirror, so does your Lord abide within you, why search for him without?"

"As his character is, as the work is which he desires to perform, and as the manner is in which he means to serve, even so a voluntary slave must offer himself."

"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."

"As long as the food remains warm, as long as they eat in silence, as long as the qualities of the food are not proclaimed, so long the manes partake of it."

"As He pleases, He engages us, such is His glorious greatness."

"As Indra sends copious rain during the four months of the rainy season, even so let the king, taking upon himself the office of Indra, shower benefits on his kingdom."

"As the Earth supports all created beings equally, thus ,a king who supports all his subjects, ,takes upon himself the office of the Earth."

"As the male is to whom a wife cleaves, even so is the son whom she brings forth, let him therefore carefully guard his wife, in order to keep his offspring pure."

"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."

"As the Sun during eight months imperceptibly draws up the water with his rays, even so let him gradually draw his taxes from his kingdom, for that is the office in which he resembles the Sun."

"As water mixes and blends with water, so does one?s light mix and blend with the Light. Merging with the perfect, all powerful Creator, one comes to know his own self."

"As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter or his owner who obtains the offspring even thus it is with the wives of others."

"Attuned to the Lord s Love, she is intuitively absorbed in bliss, she obtains the Lord God."

"Between a son s son and the son of a daughter there exists in this world no difference, for even the son of a daughter saves him ,who has no sons in the next world, like the son s son."

"Blessed and acclaimed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God, it is obtained by the merits of past actions."

"Bless me with your prayers that I may worship God with devotion, for those already united with Him, what more is there to unite?"

"Between sons born of wives equal in caste ,and without any other distinction no seniority in right of the mother exists, seniority is declared to be according to birth."

"Between a son s son and the son of an appointed daughter there is no difference, neither with respect to worldly matters nor to sacred duties, for their father and mother both sprang from the body of the same man ."

"Blessed is his coming into the world, he banishes self-conceit, and is acclaimed as true in the Court of the True Lord."

"Blessed is the Creator, the True King, who has linked the whole world to its tasks."

"Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God."

"Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord."

"Both he who respectfully receives a gift , and he who respectfully bestows it go to heaven in the contrary case t hey both fall into hell."

"Both the eldest and the youngest shall take their shares according to the rule just stated each of those who are between the eldest and the youngest, shall have the share prescribed for the middlemost."

"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."

"But he whose father is dead, while his grandfather lives, shall, after pronouncing his father s name, mention that of his great grandfather."

"Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit."

"But it is just that ,a man who knows ,the law should give even to all of them food and raiment without stint, according to his ability, he who gives it not will become all outcast."

"But if his Gurus are dead, or if he lives separate from them in another house, let him, when he seeks a subsistence, accept ,presents from good men alone."

"But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin."

"But the foolish man who eats first without having given food to these persons does, while he crams, not know that after death he himself will be devoured by dogs and vultures."

"But know also that there exist in this world countless sons and grandsons of those chief classes of manes which have been enumerated."

"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."

"But she alone is approved, who dies, while yet still alive, she lives for the sake of the Love of her Beloved."

"By great good fortune, I have obtained the Blessed Vision of the Guru s Darshan, blessed, blessed is my True Guru."

"But when lightning and the roar of thunder are observed after the sacred fires have been made to blaze, the stoppage shall last as long as the light of the sun or of the stars is visible if the remaining above named phenomenon, rain, occurs, the reading shall cease both in the day time and at night."

"By His Command, one intuitively merges and blends with Him."

"By spies, by a ,pretended display of energy, and by carrying out ,various undertakings, let the king constantly ascertain his own and his enemy s strength."

"By Guru s Grace, servant Nanak beholds Him, without the Lord, I have no other at all. The Lord Himself, the Lord Himself He is the Immaculate Almighty Lord God."

"By protecting those who live as becomes Aryans and by removing the thorns, kings, solely intent on guarding their subjects, reach heaven."

"By the sacred tradition the woman is declared to be the soil, the man is declared to be the seed, the production of all corporeal beings takes place through the union of the soil with the seed."

"By the means of clever reformed thieves, who associate with such rogues , follow them and know their various machinations, he must detect and destroy them."

"By the destiny written upon their foreheads, they become truly unattached, and by reflective meditation, they are imbued with Truth."