black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
GURU NANAK

Creation Form God Himself Human
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
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
GURU NANAK

Emperor God King Love Wealth
I don’t die, He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.
GURU NANAK

Death God Immortal
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
Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
GURU NANAK

Death Existence Home Peace Touch Yourself
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
If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may be made separate ,by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.
GURU NANAK

Brother Family Himself Live Occupation Property Share
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
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
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 NANAK

Adversity Auspicious Burnt Care Follow Purity
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
GURU NANAK

Kind Plant Production
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
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 NANAK

Body Bride Growth Ignorance Love Old Pain Suffering Widow
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
GURU NANAK

Ancient Caste Children Man Myself Young

As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Guru Nanak Quotes