Guru Nanak
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.Collection: God
There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now.Collection: Truth
From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.Collection: Inspirational
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Food
If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe.Collection: God
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.Collection: Alone
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.
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.
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
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.
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.
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.
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 am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.
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.
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
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.
By singing the Guru's hymns, I, the minstrel spread the Lord's glory. Nanak, by praising the True Name, I have obtained the perfect Lord.
With your hands carve out your own destiny.Collection: Destiny
Conquer your mind and conquer the world.Collection: Conquer The World
The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.Collection: Brother
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.Collection: Truthful
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.Collection: Eight
Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.Collection: Evil
We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without womanCollection: Kings
Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.Collection: Heart
The world is a drama, staged in a dreamCollection: Dream
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.Collection: Form
There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.Collection: Kindness
Those who have loved are those that have found GodCollection: Found
Speak only that which will bring you honor.Collection: Honor
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.Collection: Illusion
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarianCollection: Lying
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.Collection: Ocean
False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.Collection: Clothes
From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come. When his woman dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. So why call her bad? From her, kings are born. From woman, woman is born; without woman, there would be no one at all.Collection: Kings
I don't die... He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.Collection: Gone