black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.

Guru 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 NANAK

Fountain God Heart Love Rain
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
GURU NANAK

Born Death Myself Philosophy
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.
GURU NANAK

Emperor Forget King Ocean Wealth
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

Children Production Reason Visible
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 NANAK

Faith Knowledge Man Need
I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.
GURU NANAK

Existence Identity Myself
As a father ,supports his sons, so let the eldest support his younger brothers, and let them also in accordance with the law behave towards their eldest brother as sons ,behave.
GURU NANAK

Brother Father Himself Son Support
But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.
GURU NANAK

Herself Husband Loyalty Man Punishment Sick Sin
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 NANAK

Argument Eat Fools Lying Meditation Plant Sin Truth Understand
I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.
GURU NANAK

Bird God Offering Prayer Song
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
GURU NANAK

Ego Fake Illusion Trick
If an appointed daughter by accident dies without, leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.
GURU NANAK

Accident Daughter Death Estate Hesitation Leaving
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
GURU NANAK

Constant Foot Myself Way
Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.
GURU NANAK

Blood Cleaning Food God Hands Sacred
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar’s bowl.
GURU NANAK

Beggar Bowl Compassionate Silence Wealth
My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.
GURU NANAK

Body Dedication Himself Mindset Pieces
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
GURU NANAK

Attachment Emotional Illusion Pain
He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a, man , is called a son self given.
GURU NANAK

Abandoned Himself Lost Man Parents
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 NANAK

Conquer Focus Mindset Realization Understand
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 NANAK

Herself Night Silence Son
When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.
GURU NANAK

Appointment Daughter Each Other Father Purpose Widow
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.
GURU NANAK

End Heart Limitation Love Pen World Writing
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 NANAK

Companion Creature Hill Pain Raise Slow
With your hands carve out your own destiny.
GURU NANAK

Carve Destiny Hands Inspirational Yourself
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

Appearance Aspect Ignorance Limitation State
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
GURU NANAK

Flower Fragrance God Himself Reflection Search
I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
GURU NANAK

Bliss Constant Ego Myself Night

O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Guru Nanak Quotes