Guru Nanak Quotes on Woman (25 Quotes)

If a woman thinks in her heart of anything that would pain her husband, the ,above mentioned text is declared ,to be a means for completely removing such infidelity.

Her father protects ,her in childhood, her husband protects ,her in youth, and her sons protect ,her in old age, a woman is never fit for independence.

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.

Women must particularly be guarded against evil inclinations, however trifling ,they may appear , for, if they are not guarded, they will bring sorrow on two families.

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.

Women should never make a hoard from ,the property of their families which is common to many, nor from their own ,husbands particular property without permission.

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.

Women, confined in the house under trustworthy and obedient servants, are not ,well guarded, but those who of their own accord keep guard over themselves, are well guarded.

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 .

We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings The woman is born from woman there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Let man and woman, united in marriage, constantly exert themselves, that ,they may not be disunited ,and may not violate their mutual fidelity.

Drinking ,spirituous liquor , associating with wicked people, separation from the husband, rambling abroad, sleeping ,at unseasonable hours , and dwelling in other men s houses, are the six causes of the ruin of women.

A shepherd, a keeper of buffaloes, the husband of a remarried woman, and a carrier of dead bodies, all these must be carefully avoided.

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.

The rules ,given above must be understood ,to apply to a distribution among sons of women of the same ,caste , hear ,now the law concerning those begotten by one man on many wives of different ,castes .

They all say that the male issue ,of a woman belongs to the lord, but with respect to the ,meaning of the term lord the revealed texts differ, some call the begetter ,of the child the lord , others declare ,that it is the owner of the soil.

Nor ,the food given by those who knowingly bear with paramours ,of their wives , and by those who in all matters are ruled by women, nor food ,given by men whose ten days of impurity on account of a death have not passed, nor that which is unpalatable.