Guru Nanak Quotes on Fathers (21 Quotes)

A son, born after partition, shall alone take the property of his father, or if any ,of the other sons be reunited with the ,father , he shall share with them.

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.

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 .

The eldest alone may take the whole paternal estate, the others shall live under him just as ,they lived under their father.

If the two heirs of one man be a legitimate son of his body and a son begotten on his wife, each ,of the two sons , to the exclusion of the other, shall take the estate of his ,natural father.

Immediately on the birth of his first born a man is ,called the father of a son and is freed from the debt to the manes, that ,son , therefore, is worthy ,to receive the whole estate.

When the purpose of the appointment to , cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.

For in the next world neither father, nor mother, nor wife, nor sons, nor relations stay to be his companions, spiritual merit alone remains ,with him .

After the death of the father and of the mother, the brothers, being assembled, may divide among themselves in equal shares the paternal ,and the maternal estate, for, they have no power ,over it while the parents live.

He who takes , to wife a marriageable damsel, shall not pay any nuptial fee to her father, for the , latter will lose his dominion over her in consequence of his preventing , the legitimate result of the appearance of her enemies.

Whatever property the eldest ,son acquires ,by his own exertion after the father s death, a share of that ,shall belong to his younger ,brothers , provided they have made a due progress in learning.

He neither has father, nor mother, nor sons nor brothers.

Reprehensible is the father who gives not ,his daughter in marriage at the proper time, reprehensible is the husband who approaches not ,his wife in due season , and reprehensible is the son who does not protect his mother after her husband has died.

The legitimate son and the son of the wife ,thus share the father s estate, but the other tell become members of the family, and inherit according to their order ,each later named on failure of those named earlier .

The representative ,the son begotten on the wife is not invested with the right of the principal ,the eldest brother to an additional share , the principal ,became a father on the procreation ,of a son by his younger brother , hence one should give a share to the ,son begotten on the wife of the elder brother according to the rule ,stated above .

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.

If undivided brethren, ,living with their father, together make an exertion ,for gain , the father shall on no account give to them unequal shares ,on a division of the estate .

Infants, aged, poor and sick men must be considered as rulers of the middle sphere, the eldest brother as equal to one s father, one s wife and one s son as one s own body.

Let the son of an appointed daughter first present a funeral cake to his mother, the second to her father, the funeral to his father s father.

If two ,sons , begotten by two ,different men , contend for the property ,in the hands of their mother, each shall take, to the exclusion of the other, what belonged to his father.

The son of an ,appointed daughter, indeed, shall ,also take the estate of his ,own father, who leaves no ,other son, he shall ,then present two funeral cakes to his own father and to his maternal grandfather.