Guru Nanak Quotes

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

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

Conquer your mind and conquer the world.

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

those who have loved are those that have found God

Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.

The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

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

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

The True One was there from time immemorial. He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. ... Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.

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

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

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

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.

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

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

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

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

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.

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

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second.

If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

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

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

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

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.

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.

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

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

As a father ,supports his sons, so let the eldest support his younger brothers, and let them also in accordance with the law behave towards their eldest brother as sons ,behave.

Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.

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.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal 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.

Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.