Granth Sahib Quotes on Fire (17 Quotes)

What can the cold do to the fire How can the night affect the sun What can the darkness do to the moon What can social status do to air and water What are personal possessions to the earth, from which all things are produced

My soul is burning like fire, and the knife is cutting deep. Prays Nanak, recognizing the Lord's Command, I am at peace, day and night.

If I cut my body into pieces, and burn them in the fire, and if I make my body and mind into firewood, and night and day burn them in the fire, and if I perform hundreds of thousands and millions of religious rituals - still, all these are not equal to the Name of the Lord.

Seeing this world on fire, I rushed to the Sanctuary of the True Guru.

If I dressed myself in fire, and built my house of snow, and made iron my food and if I were to drink in all pain like water, and drive the entire earth before me.

The desert is not satisfied by rain, and the fire is not quenched by desire. The king is not satisfied with his kingdom, and the oceans are full, but still they thirst for more. O Nanak, how many times must I seek and ask for the True Name

Cruelty, material attachment, greed and anger are the four rivers of fire. Falling into them, one is burned, O Nanak One is saved only by holding tight to good deeds.

Chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, His servant has been carried across. The Guru has lifted me up and carried me across the ocean of fire.

Meeting with the Guru, peace is found. The fire is extinguished in His Glorious Praises.

The True Merchandise, Wealth and Capital are obtained through the Radiant Light of the Guru. Just as fire is extinguished by pouring on water, desire becomes the slave of the Lord's slaves.

The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.

without his command Your hands and feet will fall off in an instant, when you are burnt in the fire.

After cutting away its branches, its feet are bound together into bundles, and then, it is placed between the wooden rollers and crushed. What punishment is inflicted upon it Its juice is extracted and placed in the cauldron as it is heated, it groans and cries out. And then, the crushed cane is collected and burnt in the fire below. Nanak, come, people, and see how the sweet sugar-cane is treated

That body is said to be pure, in which the True Name abides. One whose body is imbued with the Fear of the True One, and whose tongue savors Truthfulness, is brought to ecstasy by the True Lord's Glance of Grace. That person does not have to go through the fire of the womb again.

If Nanak could be the dust of their feet, then he, the ignorant one, might also obtain some. Who is our mother, and who is our father Where did we come from We are formed from the fire of the womb within, and the bubble of water of the sperm. For what purpose are we created

God's inner nature is like that of fire, untouched and forever immaculate.

Fire and water join together, and the breath roars in its fury The tongue and the sex organs each seek to taste.