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Guru Nanak Quotes

«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.»
«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 .»
«If she be ,still a virgin, or one who returned ,to her first husband after leaving him, she is worthy to again perform with her second ,or first deserted husband the ,nuptial ceremony.»
«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.»
«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 .»
«On failure of each better ,son , each next inferior ,one is worthy of the inheritance, but if there be many ,of equal ,rank , they shall all share the estate.»
«Not brothers, nor fathers, ,but sons take the paternal estate, but the father shall take the inheritance of ,a son who leaves no male issue, and his brothers.»
«To three ,ancestors water must be offered, to three the funeral cake is given, the fourth ,descendant is the giver of these ,oblations , the fifth has no connection ,with them .»
«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 .»
«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.»