Top 14 Guru Nanak Quotes



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.

 

those who have loved are those that have found God

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

 

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.

 

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

 

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?

 

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.

 

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

 

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?

 

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

 

 

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