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Guru Nanak Quotes

Guru Nanak Quotes.

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.
Guru Nanak
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
Guru Nanak
If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.
Guru Nanak
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Guru Nanak
Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.
Guru Nanak
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak
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.
Guru Nanak
Me, the bard out of work, the Lord has applied to His service. In the very beginning, He gave me the order to sing His praises night and day. The Master summoned the minstrel to His True Court. He clothed me with the robe of His true honour and eulogy. Since then, the True Name had become my ambrosial food.
Guru Nanak
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
Guru Nanak
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
Guru Nanak
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Guru Nanak
As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?
Guru Nanak
Let God’s grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.
Guru Nanak
Speak only that which will bring you honor.
Guru Nanak
Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
Guru Nanak
The world is a drama, staged in a dream
Guru Nanak
Those who have loved are those that have found God
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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.
Guru Nanak
Asceticism doesn’t lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn’t lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.
Guru Nanak
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
Guru Nanak
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Guru Nanak
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
Guru Nanak
With your hands carve out your own destiny.
Guru Nanak
Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
Guru Nanak
False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.
Guru Nanak
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Guru Nanak
The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
Guru Nanak
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
Guru Nanak
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.
Guru Nanak
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
Guru Nanak