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Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

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

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

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.

Those who have loved are those that have found God

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

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

Your Mercy is my social status.

As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?

He who regards all men as equals is religious.

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

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

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

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

I don't die ... He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.

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

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

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

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

Realization of Truth is higher than all else. Higher still is truthful living.

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 truely die.

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

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

I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

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

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

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

What should the yogi have to fear? Trees, plants, and all that is inside and outside, is He Himself

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.

Conquer your mind and conquer the world.

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

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

See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.

Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.

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

O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.

Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

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

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.

The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

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.

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.

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.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.