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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Let God’s grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

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

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

Those who have loved are those that have found God

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.

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.

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

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

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

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.

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

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

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

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 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.

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