Guru Nanak Quotes on Body (28 Quotes)


    The Guru has placed the reins in the mouth of the body horse.

    The legitimate son of the body alone ,shall be the owner of the paternal estate, but, in order to avoid harshness, let him allow a maintenance to the rest.

    Nor without receiving permission from a guest ,who stays in his house , nor while the wind blows vehemently, nor while blood flows from his body, nor when he is wounded by a weapon.

    My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.

    For the purpose of gaining bare subsistence, let him accumulate property by ,following those irreproachable occupations ,which are prescribed for his ,caste , without ,unduly fatiguing his body.


    Him whom a man begets on his own wedded wife, let him know to be a legitimate son of the body , the first in rank.

    The golden body is adorned with the saddle of gold. It is adorned with the jewel of the Name of the Lord.

    Pain is eliminated and doubt is dispelled from the body, meditating on the Lord of the World, their victory is celebrated.

    Let him not step intentionally on things used for cleansing the body, on water used for a bath, on urine or ordure, on blood, on mucus, and on anything spat out or vomited.

    I place the saddle on the body horse, the saddle of realization of the Good Lord.

    When the legitimate son of the body divides the paternal estate, he shall give one sixth or one fifth part of his father s property to the son begotten on the wife.

    This body is so very beautiful, it chants the Name of the Lord, and it is adorned with the Name of the Lord.

    The legitimate son of the body, the son begotten on a wife, the son adopted, the son made, the son secretly born, and the son cast off, ,are the six heirs and kinsmen.

    Let us weep over the body s separation from our Lord and Master, let us remember Him in contemplation.

    Except when sick he must not touch the cavities ,of the body without a reason, and he must avoid ,to touch the hair on the secret ,parts .

    That companion speedily conducts the man who is devoted to duty and effaces his sins by austerities, to the next world, radiant and clothed with an ethereal body.

    He has applied the whip of the Lord s Love to my body.

    The body is the horse, which one rides to the Lord. Meeting the True Guru, one sings the songs of joy.

    The body is the Lord s horse, imbued with the fresh and new color. From the Guru, I ask for the Lord s spiritual wisdom.

    Those sons, who have been mentioned in connection with ,the legitimate son of the body , being begotten by strangers, belong ,in reality to him from whose seed they sprang, but not to the other ,man who took them .

    A son ,legally begotten on such an appointed female shall inherit like a legitimate son of the body, for that seed and the produce belong, according to the law, to the owner of the soil.

    Infants, aged, poor and sick men must be considered as rulers of the middle sphere, the eldest brother as equal to one s father, one s wife and one s son as one s own body.

    He may ease himself, having covered ,the ground with sticks, clods, leaves, grass, and the like, restraining his speech, ,keeping himself pure, wrapping up his body, and covering his head.

    The True Lord Himself created the world, without the Guru, there is only pitch darkness. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

    Between a son s son and the son of an ,appointed daughter there is no difference, neither with respect to worldly matters nor to sacred duties, for their father and mother both sprang from the body of the same ,man .

    The husband soul has become separated from the body bride.

    He meets his Lord and Master, the Inner knower, the Searcher of hearts, His body is ever new, and His color is ever fresh.

    The Lord has showered His Mercy upon servant Nanak, mounting the body horse, he has found the Lord.


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