Guru Nanak Quotes

Read these thought-provoking quotes of Guru Nanak and admire their beauty on this Baisakhi.

Whoever, styling himself as a teacher lives on the charity of others, never bow before him. He who earns his livelihood by the sweat of his brow and shares it with others, O Nanak, only he can know the way.
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
He who shows the real home in this body is the Guru. He makes the five sounded word reverberate in man.
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?
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.
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.

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