Guru Nanak
Quotes
Born into a rigid social hierarchy, he pioneered a spiritual revolution that challenged centuries of religious and social divisions in the Indian subcontinent. Through powerful poetry and radical teachings, he established Sikhism as a transformative path of equality, rejecting caste distinctions, gender inequalities, and religious exclusivism. His profound philosophy emphasized direct spiritual experience, selfless service, and the fundamental unity of all human beings, creating a spiritual movement that would reshape social dynamics and offer a powerful alternative to existing religious orthodoxies.
Guru Nanak
Quotes
Born into a rigid social hierarchy, he pioneered a spiritual revolution that challenged centuries of religious and social divisions in the Indian subcontinent. Through powerful poetry and radical teachings, he established Sikhism as a transformative path of equality, rejecting caste distinctions, gender inequalities, and religious exclusivism. His profound philosophy emphasized direct spiritual experience, selfless service, and the fundamental unity of all human beings, creating a spiritual movement that would reshape social dynamics and offer a powerful alternative to existing religious orthodoxies.
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.
I don't die... He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.
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.
The highest religion is to rise to universal brotherhood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.
I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.
Far from wife and son am I, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.
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.
