Guru Nanak Quotes
"Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Joy, Name, Songs)
"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
(Related: Ignorance, Self, State)
"One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Reason)
"Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Delusion, Man, World)
"I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?"
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Death)
"God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: God)
"From its brilliancy everything is illuminated."
- 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
(Related: Love, God, Wealth, Kings)
"Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Death, People)
"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
(Related: Soul, Solitude)
"I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Man)
"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."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Happiness, Wife, Performance, Religious, Service)
"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
"The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Life, Men, Cause, Children, Production, Woman)
"Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Eye, Eyes)
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Intellect, Mind)
"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
(Related: Law, Man, Ocean, United, Woman)
"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