Guru Nanak Dev Messages

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

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

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

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

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.

Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.

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.

He who regards all men as equals is religious.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

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