It is said that Guru Nanak ji (the first Guru of the Sikhs) told his disciple to build a plate form. He built it. When Guru Nanak Saw it. He told him to demolish it. He demolished it. Guru Nanak told him to rebuilt it. He rebuilt it. Guru Nanak again told him to demolish […]
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During his tour of Malwa. Guru Tegh Bahadur reached village Barna from Kaithal. He inquired of a man outside the village. “Brother. does any Sikh of Guru Nanak live in this village?” He replied. “There is one farmer who is Guru Nanak’s Sikh.” The Guru said to him, “Please go and tell him that your
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Sikh Ancient Wisdom Smoking is Prohibited During his tour of Malwa. Guru Tegh Bahadur reached village Barna from Kaithal. He inquired of a man outside the village. “Brother. does any Sikh of Guru Nanak live in this village?” He replied. “There is one farmer who is Guru Nanak’s Sikh.” The Guru said to him, “Please
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When anger is repressed by reason of inability to do immediate harm, it retires into the heart in the form of malice and breeds these vices envy, triumph over the enemy’s ill, repulsion of friendly approaches, contempt, slander, derision, personal violence, and injustice.
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There is, among the records of Newton, a sentence in the spirit of ‘Shakspeare’ : —”I don’t know what I may seem to the world ; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a
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George the Third was one day standing between Lord Eldon and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Sutton. After a moment’s pause in the conversation, the King said gravely, ” I am now in a position which probably no European king ever occupied before.” Lord Eldon begged His Majesty to explain himself. ” I am standing,”
A lady of an irascible temper asked George Selwyn why woman was made out of the rib of man. “Indeed, I can’t say,” was his reply, “except it be that the rib is the most crooked part of the body.
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European Ancient Wisdom Journey through the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, where European thinkers revolutionized science, art, and philosophy. An Ungallant Reply A lady of an irascible temper asked George Selwyn why woman was made out of the rib of man. “Indeed, I can’t say,” was his reply, “except it be that the rib is the most crooked
To be built well is not to be toppled. To be held fast is not to slip. With this, children and grandchildren will never stop offering sacrifice to their ancestors With this to cultivate oneself, one’s virtue will be true; With this to cultivate the family, its virtue will be plentiful. With this to cultivate
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‘Yang Chau’ once remarked to the King of ‘Liang’, “It is as easy to govern the world as to turn the palm of your hand.” The King, however, retorted, “Sir, you have a wife and concubine, yet struggle to manage them. Your three-acre garden remains overrun with weeds. How can you claim that governing the world
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