Guru Nanak Quotes on Birth (9 Quotes)

Let him not insult those who have redundant limbs or are deficient in limbs, nor those destitute of knowledge, nor very aged men, nor those who have no beauty or wealth, nor those who are of low birth.

No one invites him to come in and sit down he is like a crow in a deserted house. Caught in birth and death, separated from God for such a long time, the whole world is wasting away.

O my mind, the world comes and goes in birth and death, only the True Name shall emancipate you in the end.

Immediately on the birth of his first born a man is ,called the father of a son and is freed from the debt to the manes, that ,son , therefore, is worthy ,to receive the whole estate.

One who comes seeking Your Sanctuary obtains the treasure of virtue, and does not have to enter the cycle of birth and death again.

While lying on a bed, while his feet are raised ,on a bench , while he sits on his hams with a cloth tied round his knees, let him not study, nor when he has eaten meat or food given by a person impure on account of a birth or a death.

O my mind, obtaining the blessing of this human birth, some are engaged in the trade of Truth.

Between sons born of wives equal ,in caste ,and without ,any other distinction no seniority in right of the mother exists, seniority is declared ,to be according to birth.

Some , sages , versed in the law, considering the purpose of the appointment not to have been attained by those two , on the birth of the first , think that a second , son may be lawfully procreated on , such women.