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Teachings from Guru Granth Sahib

• They who eat the fruit of their own labor and share with others are the people who have found the right way, O Nanak
• Man becomes what he loves best.

Equality of Gender

• How can you call woman inferior, She is the one who gives birth to great men.

Service

• There can be no love of God without active service

• When one does active service in this world, then alone he achieves salvation

• Those who meditate on Him, serve humanity

Unity of Mankind

• We all have common father, so we are all his children

• There is only one human race

Truthful Living

• Truth is higher than everything, but higher still is truthful living

Self Realization

• One who knoweth one's own self, recogniseth God

• By conquering the mind thou shalt conquer the whole world

• One who knoweth the meaning of soul, knoweth Supreme Essence

• On my soul thou hast emanated from the Light of God, know thy true essence

• The supreme lord is realizable within the soul

Egoism

• Egoism is deep-rooted disease (causing suffering) When mind is defiled with sin, it is purified by the love of the Name

• The perverse cannot offer devotion from their hearts, they are destroying themselves in ego

Prayer

• Prayers from the true heart never go in vain

• The mind's pain goeth when one offereth praises to Him in one's prayers

Human Relations

• Let all be called high, as no one seemteth low

• From one light hath come the whole world, so who is good and who is bad

• Measure the value of people in terms of their spiritual stature, and not in terms for their caste

• Every work or profession is noble if performed in the right way

• Sweetness and humility are the essence of all goodness and virtue.