Guru Nanak on listening
Guru Nanak76 quotes“Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.”
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May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak 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 NanakGuru Nanak See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Those who have loved are those that have found God.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak 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.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter, sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak The world is a drama, staged in a dream.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Speak only that which will bring you honor.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.
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