Guru Nanak Quotes on Man (69 Quotes)

A man, aged thirty years, shall marry a maiden of twelve who pleases him, or a man of twenty four a girl eight years of age, if ,the performance of his duties would ,otherwise be impeded, ,he must marry sooner.

In that ,country , where the king avoids taking the property of ,mortal sinners, men are born in ,due time ,and are long lived,

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.

If ,a child be born in a man s house and his father be not known, he is a son born secretly in the house and shall belong to him of whose wife he was born.

Let him, though suffering in consequence of his righteousness, never turn his heart to unrighteousness, for he will see the speedy overthrow of unrighteous, wicked men.

Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.

Let him not insult those who have redundant limbs or are deficient in limbs, nor those destitute of knowledge, nor very aged men, nor those who have no beauty or wealth, nor those who are of low birth.

Women do not care for beauty, nor is their attention fixed on age, , thinking , , It is enough that he is a man, they give themselves to the handsome and to the ugly.

The maiden, though marriageable, should rather stop in ,the father s house until death, than that he should ever give her to a man destitute of good qualities.

For a man of bad conduct is blamed among people, constantly suffers misfortunes, is afflicted with diseases, and short lived.

A person in urgent necessity, an aged man, a pregnant woman, or a child, shall be reprimanded and clean the ,place , that is a settled rule.

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.

Him whom a man begets on his own wedded wife, let him know to be a legitimate son of the body , the first in rank.

Who could escape destruction, when he provokes to anger those , men , by whom the fire was made to consume all things, by whom the , water of the ocean was made undrinkable, and by whom the moon was made to wane and to increase again.

Those who take bribes, cheats and rogues, gamblers, those who live by teaching ,the performance of auspicious ceremonies, sanctimonious hypocrites, and fortune tellers, Officials of high rank and physicians who act improperly, men living by showing their

Let no prudent man, after giving his daughter to one ,man , give her again to another, for he who gives ,his daughter whom he had before given, incurs ,the guilt of speaking falsely regarding a human being.

On women, infants, men of disordered mind, the poor and the sick, the king shall inflict punishment with a whip, a cane, or a rope and the like.

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.

He who is persevering, gentle, ,and patient, shuns the company of men of cruel conduct, and does no injury ,to living creatures , gains, if he constantly lives in that manner, by controlling his organs and by liberality, heavenly bliss.

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.

During fifteen years the manes do not eat ,the food of that man who disdains a ,freely offered gift , nor does the fire carry his offerings ,to the gods .

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.

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 .

That boy equal ,by caste whom his mother or his father affectionately give, ,confirming the gift with ,a libation of water, in times of distress ,to a man as his son, must be considered as an adopted son.

Who could prosper, while he injures those , men who provoked to anger, could create other worlds and other guardians of the world, and deprive the gods of their divine station.

No man can completely guard women by force, but they can be guarded by the employment of the ,following expedients.

Men who have no marital property in women, but sow their seed in the soil of others, benefit the owner of the woman, but the giver of the seed reaps no advantage.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

To be mothers were women created, and to be fathers men, religious rites, therefore, are ordained in the Veda to be performed ,by the husband together with the wife.

Grass, room for resting , water, and fourthly a kind word, these things never fail in the houses of good men.

If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.

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.

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

Knowing their disposition, which the Lord of creatures laid in them at the creation, to be such, ,every man should most strenuously exert himself to guard them.

Having intentionally struck him in anger, even with a blade of grass, he will be born during twenty one existences in the wombs , of such beings where men are born in punishment of their sins.

A man who, ever covetous, displays the flag of virtue, ,who is a hypocrite, a deceiver of the people, intent on doing injury, ,and a detractor ,from the merits of all men, one must know to be one who acts like a cat.

Since that ,time the virtuous censure that ,man who in his folly appoints a woman, whose husband died, to ,bear children ,to another man .

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 .

That companion speedily conducts the man who is devoted to duty and effaces his sins by austerities, to the next world, radiant and clothed with an ethereal body.

For the wisdom, the energy, the strength, the sight, and the vitality of a man who approaches a woman covered with menstrual excretions, utterly perish.

Hence an ignorant , man should be afraid of accepting any presents, for by reason of a very small , gift even a fool sinks , into hell as a cow into a morass.

Listen ,now to the following holy discussion, salutary to all men, which the virtuous ,of the present day and the ancient great sages have held concerning male offspring.

Let him not show particular attention to an enemy, to the friend of an enemy, to a wicked man, to a thief, or to the wife of another man.

Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.

In water, during the middle part of the night, while he voids excrements, or is impure, and after he has partaken of a funeral dinner, a man must not even think in his heart ,of the sacred texts .

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.

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.

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.

If a man buys a ,boy , whether equal or unequal ,in good qualities , from his father and mother for the sake of having a son, that ,child is called a ,son bought.