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 NANAKOwing 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.
More Guru Nanak Quotes
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Conquer your mind and conquer the world.
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Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
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I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
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Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
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I don’t die, He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.
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As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
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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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Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.
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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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With your hands carve out your own destiny.
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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.
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The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
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The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord’s name But more is the one who knows by the Guru’s grace.
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False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.
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One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
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