Granth Sahib Quotes on People (59 Quotes)


    By mere talk, people do not earn passage to Heaven.

    According to the Lord's Command, people perform their actions they wander around, driven by the karma of their past actions. By the Lord's Command, they behold the Blessed Vision of His Darshan.

    Prays Nanak, what is the nature of the spiritual people They are self-realized they understand God. By Guru's Grace, they contemplate Him such spiritual people are honored in His Court.

    People do not enshrine love for the Truth they chase after worldly affairs instead.

    The Great Giver has given the intoxicating drug of falsehood. The people are intoxicated they have forgotten death, and they have fun for a few days. Those who do not use intoxicants are true they dwell in the Court of the Lord.


    Between the Lord's devotees and the people of the world, there can never be any true alliance. The Creator Himself is infallible. He cannot be fooled no one can fool Him. He blends His devotees with Himself they practice Truth, and only Truth.

    In their dreams at night, people wander around as long as they sleep just so, they are under the power of the snake Maya, as long as their hearts are filled with ego and duality.

    O Nanak, emancipation comes only by loving devotional worship through duality, people are engrossed in duality.

    I wash the feet of those who walk upon Your Path. With my eyes, I long to behold those kind people.

    People continue wandering through the cycle of 8.4 million incarnations without the True Guru, liberation is not obtained.

    The Lord Himself leads the people of the world astray they tell lies, and by telling lies, they eat poison.

    If people could meet the Lord by their own efforts, why would they be crying out in the pain of separation

    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.

    People are entangled in the enjoyment of fine clothes, but gold and silver are only dust. They acquire beautiful horses and elephants, and ornate carriages of many kinds. They think of nothing else, and they forget all their relatives. They ignore their Creator without the Name, they are impure.

    Through self-realization, people dwell within the home of their inner being egotism and desire depart.

    Do not meet with, or even approach those people, whose hearts are filled with horrible anger.

    Reading their books over and over again, people continue making mistakes they are so proud of their religious robes. But what is the use of bathing at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, when the filth of stubborn pride is within the mind

    Coming and going, people wander through reincarnation they act according to their past actions.

    Sexual desire and anger are diffused throughout the universe. Coming and going, people suffer in pain.

    Everyday, people carry on their business, with all sorts of devices to earn interest, for the sake of Maya. If they earn a profit, they are pleased, but their hearts are broken by losses.

    People gather and hoard their possessions, and give nothing to anyone else - the poor fools think that everything is theirs.

    Like the mad dog running around in all directions, the greedy person, unaware, consumes everything, edible and non-edible alike. Engrossed in the intoxication of sexual desire and anger, people wander through reincarnation over and over again.

    O Nanak, the One Name is pervading deep within my mind by Guru's Grace, I receive it. In all colors and forms, You are pervading. People die over and over again they are re-born, and make their rounds on the wheel of reincarnation.

    Gazing upon their families, people are lured and trapped by emotional attachment, but none will go along with them in the end. Serving the True Guru, one finds the Lord, the Treasure of Excellence.

    This mind is very powerful we cannot escape it just by trying. In the love of duality, people suffer in pain, condemned to terrible punishment.

    Just as the darkness is lit up by the lamp, and the hopes of the wife are fulfilled by thinking about her husband, and people are filled with bliss upon meeting their beloved, so is my mind imbued with the Lord's Love.

    The color of the world is false and weak when it washes away, people cry out in pain.

    People do whatever the Lord inspires them to do. Wherever He keeps us is a good place.

    O Nanak, people do what is pre-ordained they cannot do anything else.

    You may act in secrecy, but God is still with you you can only deceive other people.

    People try all sorts of things, but without the Lord's Mercy, His Name is not obtained.

    People are just like this fish unaware, the noose of death descends upon them.

    By all sorts of efforts, people do not find salvation. Through clever tricks, the weight is only piled on more and more.

    All other loves are transitory, as long as people do not love their Lord and Master.

    With the mind caught up in playful pleasures, involved in all sorts of amusements and sights that stagger the eyes, people are led astray. The emperors sitting on their thrones are consumed by anxiety.

    Forgetting the Primal Lord, O Nanak, people are born and die, over and over again. Mistaking it for musk, they have fallen into the stinking pit of filth.

    People wear all sorts of costumes and wander all around, but in their hearts and minds, they practice deception. They do not attain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, and after death, they sink into manure.

    People shout out loud and move their bodies, but if they are emotionally attached to Maya, then the Messenger of Death shall hunt them down.

    He does not need to eat His Hair is Wondrous and Beautiful He is free of hate. Millions of people worship His Feet.

    In this world, people are engrossed in false pursuits, but in the world hereafter, only the account of your true actions is accepted.

    As it is pre-ordained, people speak their words. As it is pre-ordained, they consume their food. As it is pre-ordained, they walk along the way. As it is pre-ordained, they see and hear. As it is pre-ordained, they draw their breath. Why should I go and ask the scholars about this

    Acting in evil and corruption, people are immersed in corruption. Without the Name, they find no place of rest. In the City of Death, they suffer in agony.

    People are incarnated in heaven and in hell. In egotism, they come and go.

    Those people, within whose hearts the Lord abides, are radiant and enlightened.

    You Yourself created the counterfeit and the genuine. You Yourself appraise all people. You appraise the true, and place them in Your Treasury You consign the false to wander in delusion.

    There are so many stubborn-minded intelligent people, and so many who contemplate the Vedas.

    Through doubt, the people are being destroyed.

    Through desire, people are cast into the womb and reborn. Through desire, they taste the sweet and sour flavors. Bound by desire, they are led on, beaten and struck on their faces and mouths. Bound and gagged and assaulted by evil, they are released only through the Name, through the Guru's Teachings.

    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

    People eat what they believe to be sweet, but it turns out to be bitter in taste. They attach their affections to brothers and friends, uselessly engrossed in corruption. They vanish without a moment's delay without God's Name, they are stunned and amazed.


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