Granth Sahib Quotes on Wisdom & Knowledge (46 Quotes)

My Lord and Master has saved many, countless beings. I am meek, with little or no understanding, and unworthy

To praise You is to follow Your Command and Your Will. That which pleases You is spiritual wisdom and meditation. That which pleases God is chanting and meditation to be in harmony with His Will is perfect spiritual wisdom.

Abandoning meditation, penance and self-restraint, and the wisdom of good actions, you do not worship and adore the Lord's Name.

Through His Light, God is revealed. Without the True Guru, understanding is not obtained. The True Guru comes to meet those who have such pre-ordained destiny.

True are the Teachings of the True Guru. The body and mind are cooled and soothed, by the touchstone of Truth. This is the true mark of wisdom, that one remains detached, like the water-lily, or the lotus upon the water.

O Nanak, the Guru is the tree of contentment, with flowers of faith, and fruits of spiritual wisdom. Watered with the Lord's Love, it remains forever green through the karma of good deeds and meditation, it ripens.

Again and again, we hear and tell stories we read and write and understand loads of knowledge, but still, desires increase day and night, and the disease of egotism fills us with corruption.

Throughout the other seven watches of the day, it is good to speak the Truth, and sit with the spiritually wise. There, vice and virtue are distinguished, and the capital of falsehood is decreased. There, the counterfeit are cast aside, and the genuine are cheered.

You are the hidden and the revealed in all places. Receiving Guru's Grace, this understanding is obtained.

As it pleases Him, people embrace love for the Lord, and doubt and delusion are dispelled from within. Intuitive peace and poise well up within, and the intellect is awakened to spiritual wisdom.

Give me that understanding, by which I may meditate on You. I sing Your Glorious Praises with each and every breath. Nanak takes the Support of the Guru's Feet.

Without the Guru, no one is shown the Way. Like the blind, they continue coming and going. Having lost the treasure of spiritual wisdom, they depart, defrauded and plundered.

The Divine Light within is revealed, O Nanak, through this intuitive understanding.

How can I describe the Glories of the Saints Their knowledge is unfathomable their limits cannot be known.

You impart understanding, and You unite us in Your Union.

When the mind is cleaned with the jewel of spiritual wisdom, it does not become dirty again.

When one's actions are right, the understanding is perfect. Without good deeds, it becomes more and more deficient.

If someone understands both the disease and the medicine, only then is he a wise physician.

By actions committed under the influence of the three qualities, hope and anxiety are produced. Without the Guru, how can anyone be released from these three qualities Through intuitive wisdom, we meet with Him and find peace. Within the home of the self, the Mansion of His Presence is realized when He bestows His Glance of Grace and washes away our pollution.

She is the most beautiful among women upon her forehead she wears the Jewel of the Lord's Love. Her glory and her wisdom are magnificent her love for the Infinite Lord is True. Other than her Beloved Lord, she knows no man. She enshrines love for the True Guru.

Without the True Guru, understanding is not obtained. Meditation, penance and austere self-discipline are found by surrendering to the True Guru's Will.

They say, I shall tie up my enemy, and I shall cut him down. Who dares to set foot upon my land I am learned, I am clever and wise.

True love shall not be broken, if the True Guru is met. Obtaining the wealth of spiritual wisdom, the understanding of the three worlds is acquired.

The Guru has lit the brilliant light of spiritual wisdom, and the darkness of ignorance has been dispelled.

In this world and in the next, the soul-bride belongs to her Husband Lord, who has such a vast family. He is Lofty and Inaccessible. His Wisdom is Unfathomable. He has no end or limitation.

Through the Guru, I have obtained the Lord's spiritual wisdom. I have obtained the Sublime Essence of the Lord. My mind is imbued with the Love of the Lord I drink in the Sublime Essence of the Lord.

Without the Guru, intuitive wisdom does not come, and the filth of greed does not depart from within.

Modesty, humility and intuitive understanding are my mother-in-law and father-in-law I have made good deeds my spouse.

Without the oil, how can the lamp be lit Let the reading of your prayer book be the oil, and let the Fear of God be the wick for the lamp of this body. Light this lamp with the understanding of Truth. Use this oil to light this lamp. Light it, and meet your Lord and Master.

I serve my True Guru with single-minded devotion, and lovingly focus my consciousness on Him. The True Guru is the mind's desire and the sacred shrine of pilgrimage, for those unto whom He has given this understanding. The blessings of the wishes of the mind are obtained, and the fruits of one's desires.

Meeting the True One, Truth wells up. The truthful are absorbed into the True Lord. Intuitive understanding is obtained and one is welcomed with honor, through the Guru's Word, filled with the Fear of God. O Nanak, the True King absorbs us into Himself.

By Guru's Grace, intuitive understanding is obtained subduing the sense of duality, they are in love with the One.

God Himself is Merciful He Himself bestows understanding. Through the Guru's Teachings, the True One dwells forever in the mind of those who remain lovingly attached to Him.

O Nanak, by His Mercy, this understanding is obtained. By Guru's Grace, she is absorbed into the True One.

The ointment of spiritual wisdom is the destroyer of fear through love, the Pure One is seen.

Without the Guru, spiritual wisdom is not obtained other tastes are poison. Without virtue, nothing is of any use. The taste of Maya is bland and insipid.

Arising each day, you cherish your body, but you are idiotic, ignorant and without understanding.

God is Wise, Giving, Tender-hearted, Pure, Beautiful and Infinite. He is our Companion and Helper, Supremely Great, Lofty and Utterly Infinite. He is not known as young or old His Court is Steady and Stable. Whatever we seek from Him, we receive. He is the Support of the unsupported.

The jewel of spiritual wisdom was placed within the universe.

He alone knows everything, unto whom the Lord Himself gives knowledge. One may talk and preach and give sermons but still yearn after Maya.

Performing all sorts of rituals, people are smeared with twice as much filth. This filth is not removed by studying. Go ahead, and ask the wise ones.

Without the One, there is no other at all. O Baba Nanak, this is the most excellent wisdom.

She is virtuous, and she is very fortunate she is noble and tender-hearted. The happy soul-bride is loved by her Husband. She is beautiful, wise, and clever. That soul-bride is the beloved of her Husband Lord.

O Baba, other wisdom is useless and irrelevant. If falsehood is practiced a hundred times, it is still false in its effects.

One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.

Your Face is so Beautiful, and the Sound of Your Words imparts intuitive wisdom. It is so long since this sparrow-hawk has had even a glimpse of water.