Granth Sahib Quotes on Age (4 Quotes)

At the age of ten, he is a child at twenty, a youth, and at thirty, he is called handsome. At forty, he is full of life at fifty, his foot slips, and at sixty, old age is upon him. At seventy, he loses his intellect, and at eighty, he cannot perform his duties. At ninety, he lies in his bed, and he cannot understand his weakness. After seeking and searching for such a long time, O Nanak, I have seen that the world is just a mansion of smoke.

Your breath comes to its end, O my merchant friend, and your shoulders are weighed down by the tyrant of old age. Not one iota of virtue came into you, O my merchant friend bound and gagged by evil, you are driven along.

Everyone cries out, More More , with the idea of receiving. How great should we call the Giver His Gifts are beyond estimation. O Nanak, there is no deficiency Your Storehouses are filled to overflowing, age after age.

Nanak builds his house upon that site where there is no death, no birth, and no old age.