Top 17 Guru Nanak Quotes

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If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God fo

If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.
Guru Nanak
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
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
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Guru Nanak
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.
Guru Nanak
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.
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
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
From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.
Guru Nanak
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.
Guru Nanak
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
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
Guru Nanak
Let God’s grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.
Guru Nanak
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
Guru Nanak
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
Guru Nanak