Guru Nanak Quotes

“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

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

— Guru Nanak

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?

— Guru Nanak

Those who have loved are those that have found God

— Guru Nanak

“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.”

— Guru Nanak

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

— Guru Nanak

“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

“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

“Your Mercy is my social status.”

— Guru Nanak

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

— Guru Nanak

“He who regards all men as equals is religious.”

— Guru Nanak

“There is but one God. True is His Name, creative His personality and immortal His form. He is without fear sans enmity, unborn and self-illumined. By the Guru's grace He is obtained.”

— Guru Nanak

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

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

— Guru Nanak

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

— Guru Nanak

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

— Guru Nanak

“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.”

— Guru Nanak

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

— Guru Nanak

“From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.”

— Guru Nanak

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

— Guru Nanak

“One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.”

— Guru Nanak

Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.

— Guru Nanak

“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.”

— Guru Nanak

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.

— Guru Nanak

“We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman”

— Guru Nanak

“With your hands carve out your own destiny.”

— Guru Nanak

“Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.”

— Guru Nanak

“Conquer your mind and conquer the world.”

— Guru Nanak

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

— Guru Nanak

“The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.”

— Guru Nanak

“Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian, let's become a Human first.”

— Guru Nanak

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

“Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be ...”

— Guru Nanak

“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

“My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.”

— Guru Nanak

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

“I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.”

— Guru Nanak

“As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus ,it is with the wives of others.”

— Guru Nanak

“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

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 .

— Guru Nanak

“If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .”

— Guru Nanak

“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

An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives ,his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.

— Guru Nanak

“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.”

— Guru Nanak

“Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over ,this earth.”

— Guru Nanak

“There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.”

— Guru Nanak

“Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.”

— Guru Nanak

“Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.”

— Guru Nanak

“O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.”

— Guru Nanak

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.

— Guru Nanak