Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
GURU NANAK
GURU NANAK
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Guru Nanak76 quotes“Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.”
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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 Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
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Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
John BunyanJohn Bunyan Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
KabirKabir I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
KabirKabir The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
Abbe PierreAbbe Pierre All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
Maxim GorkyMaxim Gorky As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. BensonA. C. Benson I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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