Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
GURU NANAK
GURU NANAK
Guru Nanak on illusion
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Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
Guru NanakGuru 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 NanakGuru Nanak The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak I don’t die, He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak He, who is appointed to, cohabit with the widow shall, approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, and beget one son, by no means a second.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears, a son, he is called the son of a re married woman .
Guru NanakGuru Nanak 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
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter, or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus, it is with the wives of others.
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Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.
Radhanath SwamiRadhanath Swami Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.
Radhanath SwamiRadhanath Swami All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
KabirKabir Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion.
KabirKabir Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
KabirKabir All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.
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