“Make compassion the cotton, contentment the thread, modesty the knot and truth the twist.
This is the sacred thread of the soul; if you have it, then go ahead and put it on me.”

—  Nanak

Raag Aasaa 471:5383-4

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Founder of Sikhism 1469–1539

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