Guru Nanak Quotes on Sons (44 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 .

A son is even ,as oneself, ,such a daughter is equal to a son, how can another ,heir take the estate, while such ,an appointed daughter who is even oneself, lives

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.

He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The division ,of the property and the rules for allotting ,shares to the ,several sons, those begotten on a wife and the rest, in ,due order, have been thus declared to you, hear ,now the laws concerning gambling.

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 .

Through that son whom ,a daughter , either not appointed or appointed, may bear to ,a husband of equal ,caste , his maternal grandfather ,has a son s son, he shall present the funeral cake and take the estate.

A mother shall obtain the inheritance of a son ,who dies without leaving issue, and, if the mother be dead, the paternal grandmother shall take the estate.

If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

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.

When the legitimate son of the body divides the paternal estate, he shall give one sixth or one fifth part of his father s property to the son begotten on the wife.

Through a son he conquers the worlds, through a son s son he obtains immortality, but through his son s grandson he gains the world of the sun.

The messenger comes, when it pleases God, and the mourners begin to mourn. Sons, brothers, nephews and very dear friends weep and wail.

The legitimate son of the body, the son begotten on a wife, the son adopted, the son made, the son secretly born, and the son cast off, ,are the six heirs and kinsmen.

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 .

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.

Whatever may be the separate property of the mother, that is the share of the unmarried daughter alone, and the son of an ,appointed daughter shall take the whole estate of ,his maternal grandfather who leaves no son.

If, after a daughter has been appointed, a son be born ,to her father , the division ,of the inheritance must in that ,case be equal, for there is no right of primogeniture for a woman.

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 .

If a woman ,duly appointed bears a son to her brother in law or to another , that ,son, if he is begotten through desire, they declare ,to be incapable of inheriting and to be produced in vain.

He who takes care of his deceased brother s estate and of his widow, shall, after raising up a son for his brother, give that property even to that ,son .

The son of a wife, not appointed ,to have issue by another , and he whom ,an appointed female, already the mother of a son, bears to her brother in law, are both unworthy of a share, ,one being the son of an adulterer and ,the other produced through ,mere lust.

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.

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 .

If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.

All the sons of twice born men, born of wives of the same caste, shall equally divide the estate, after the others have given to the eldest an additional share.

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned ,by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.

Some , sages , versed in the law, considering the purpose of the appointment not to have been attained by those two , on the birth of the first , think that a second , son may be lawfully procreated on , such women.

Those sons, who have been mentioned in connection with ,the legitimate son of the body , being begotten by strangers, belong ,in reality to him from whose seed they sprang, but not to the other ,man who took them .

If a younger brother begets a son on the wife of the elder, the division must then be made equally, this the law is settled.

He whom ,a man receives as his son, ,after he has been deserted by his parents or by either of them, is called a son cast off.

He who was begotten according to the peculiar law on the appointed wife of a dead man, of a eunuch, or of one diseased, is called a son begotten on a wife .

Whatever result a man obtains who ,tries to cross a ,sheet of water in an unsafe boat, even that result obtains he who ,tries to pass the gloom ,of the next world with ,the help of bad ,substitutes for a real son.

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 there be a doubt, how the division shall be made, in case the younger son is born of the elder wife and the elder son of the younger wife,Then the son born of the first wife shall take as his additional share one ,most excellent bull, the next best bulls ,shall belong to those ,who are inferior on account of their mothers.

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 .

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.

The eldest ,son, being born of the eldest wife, shall receive fifteen cows and a bull, the other sons may then take shares according to ,the seniority of their mothers, that is a settled rule.