Granth Sahib Quotes on Pleasure (38 Quotes)


    Among Yogis, You are the Yogi among pleasure seekers, You are the Pleasure Seeker. Your limits are not known to any of the beings in the heavens, in this world, or in the nether regions of the underworld.

    Speech is vain and useless. O Nanak, pain and pleasure are in the power of our Lord and Master.

    Indulging in all sorts of princely pleasures, O mortal, you have forgotten God you have fallen into the world-ocean, and you think that you have become immortal.

    Let your minds be imbued with His Love, O blessed and fortunate ones. By His Pleasure, the Guru bestows His Gifts.

    You may enjoy the pleasures of hundreds of thousands of women, and rule the nine continents of the world. But without the True Guru, you will not find peace you will be reincarnated over and over again.


    Hundreds of thousands of princely pleasures are enjoyed, if the True Guru bestows His Glance of Grace. If He bestows the Name of the Lord, for even a moment, my mind and body are cooled and soothed. Those who have such pre-ordained destiny hold tight to the Feet of the True Guru.

    Mentally, we are impure and black, but outwardly, we appear white. We imitate those who stand and serve at the Lord's Door. They are attuned to the Love of their Husband Lord, and they experience the pleasure of His Love. They remain powerless, even while they have power they remain humble and meek.

    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.

    Give up the pleasures of corruption, or else you will surely die of them.

    Through the Guru's Teachings, I enshrine the Lord within my mind. Pleasure and pain, and all emotional attachments are gone.

    By good destiny, this union comes about this body enjoys its pleasures. Those who have lost their destiny, suffer separation from this union.


    The birds are caught in the net of Maya immersed in the pleasures of love, they frolic in so many ways.

    O my Lord of the Universe, singing Your Glorious Praises, my mind is satisfied. Within me is the thirst for the Lord's Name may the Guru, in His Pleasure, grant it to me.

    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.

    Come, O sisters - let's make virtue our charms. Let's join the Saints, and enjoy the pleasure of the Lord's Love.

    My mind remains attuned to Your Name Nanak affirms this as his greatest pleasure.

    Even with vast sums of wealth, the mind is not satisfied. Gazing upon countless beauties, the man is not satisfied. He is so involved with his wife and sons - he believes that they belong to him. That wealth shall pass away, and those relatives shall be reduced to ashes.

    Forgetting your Dear Lord, you enjoy corrupt pleasures, and so you shall have to embrace red-hot pillars

    O Nanak, no one else is truly alive those who merely live shall depart in dishonor everything they eat is impure. Intoxicated with power and thrilled with wealth, they delight in their pleasures, and dance about shamelessly. O Nanak, they are deluded and defrauded.

    O Baba, the pleasures of other foods are false. Eating them, the body is ruined, and wickedness and corruption enter into the mind.

    It torments landlords, paupers and lovers of pleasure. It torments us through the sweet sounds of music and parties. It torments us through beautiful beds, palaces and decorations. It torments us through the darkness of the five evil passions.

    The True Food is the Love of the Lord the True Guru has spoken. With this True Food, I am satisfied, and with the Truth, I am delighted.

    It torments us with the expression of pleasure and pain. It torments us through incarnations in heaven and hell. It is seen to afflict the rich, the poor and the glorious. The source of this illness which torments us is greed.

    The Perfect True Guru, in His Pleasure, has met with me the Guru has saved me, through the Name of the Lord.

    O Dear Lord. I have thoroughly tested and seen all - You alone, by Your Pleasure, can save us.

    With him i lack nothing the thirsty desires of my mind are satisfied.

    The mind has become attached to the pleasures of houses, palaces, horses and other enjoyments. The Lord God does not even enter his thoughts how can he be saved, O my Lord King

    Intuitive peace and poise, contentment, enduring satisfaction and bliss come through the Pleasure of the Master's Will.

    When others die, you measure your own wealth in your mind you waste your life in the pleasures of the mouth and sexual organs.

    Without the fear of God, you may live very, very long, and savor the most enjoyable pleasures.

    Relying on Your Mercy, Dear Lord, I have indulged in sensual pleasures. Like a foolish child, I have made mistakes. O Lord, You are my Father and Mother.

    Everything we receive is a gift from Him - the thirty-six delicious foods to eat, cozy beds, cooling breezes, peaceful joy and the experience of pleasure.

    You may have a body free of disease and deformity, and have no worries or grief at all you may be unmindful of death, and night and day revel in pleasures you may take everything as your own, and have no fear in your mind at all but still, if you do not come to remember the Supreme Lord God, you shall fall under the power of the Messenger of Death.

    What good is worldly greatness All the pleasures of Maya are tasteless and insipid. In the end, they shall all fade away.

    Within my mind, I meditate on God. For me, this is like the enjoyment of princely pleasures.

    The more one feels hunger for other tastes and pleasures, the more this hunger persists.

    My body and my wealth my ruling power, my beautiful form and country - mine You may have children, a wife and many mistresses you may enjoy all sorts of pleasures and fine clothes. And yet, if the Name of the Lord does not abide within the heart, none of it has any use or value.


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