Quotes from Guru Nanak

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

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

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

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

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

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.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truely die.

those who have loved are those that have found God

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

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.

Your Mercy is my social status.

There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.

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.

What should the yogi have to fear? Trees, plants, and all that is inside and outside, is He Himself

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

He who regards all men as equals is religious.

Nanak, the whole world is in distress. He, who believes in the Name, becomes victorious.

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.

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