Quotes from Guru Nanak

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

The True One was there from time immemorial. He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. ... Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.

Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.

If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

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.

Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

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.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.

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 .

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

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.

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.

By singing the Guru's hymns, I, the minstrel spread the Lord's glory. Nanak, by praising the True Name, I have obtained the perfect Lord.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

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.