Guru Nanak Quotes

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  • Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.

  • Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting, you should be a Muslim the like of this. Let good deeds be your Kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your Kalma be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour.

  • The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.

  • False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

  • The world is a drama, staged in a dream

  • Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

  • I don't die... He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.

  • Conquer your mind and conquer the world.

  • Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

  • Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

  • The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

    Children   Men  
  • I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

    "Juggling with destiny" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.
  • Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

  • When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.

  • Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

  • As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?

  • Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

  • Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

    "Encyclopaedia of Sikhism". Book by Harbans Singh, 1992.
  • The Formless Supreme Being abides in the Realm of Eternity. Over His creation He casts His glance of grace. In that Realm are contained all the continents and the universes, Exceeding in number all count. Of creation worlds upon worlds abide therein; All obedient to His will; He watches over them in bliss, And has each constantly in mind.

  • There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.

  • 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.

    Men  
  • I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

  • 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 .

    Men  
  • As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus ,it is with the wives of others.

  • Speak only that which will bring you honor.

  • The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace.

  • Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

  • Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

  • O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.

  • Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

    Men  
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