Guru Nanak Quotes on Education (11 Quotes)

Let him walk here ,on earth , bringing his dress, speech, and thoughts to a conformity with his age, his occupation, his wealth, his sacred learning, and his race.

One may also entertain on such occasions one s maternal grandfather, a maternal uncle, a sister s son, a father in law, one s teacher, a daughter s son, a daughter s husband, a cognate kinsman, one s own officiating priest or a man for whom one offers sacrifices.

The new moon day destroys the teacher, the fourteenth ,day the pupil, the eighth and the full moon days ,destroy all remembrance of the Veda, let him therefore avoid ,reading on those ,days .

A paid servant of a village or of a king, man with deformed nails or black teeth, one who opposes his teacher, one who has forsaken the sacred fire, and a usurer.

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.

Whatever property the eldest ,son acquires ,by his own exertion after the father s death, a share of that ,shall belong to his younger ,brothers , provided they have made a due progress in learning.

Thus has been declared to you the law for a husband and his wife, which is intimately connected with conjugal happiness, and the manner of raising offspring in times of calamity, learn ,now the law concerning the division of the inheritance.

But when lightning and the roar of thunder ,are observed after the sacred fires have been made to blaze, the stoppage shall last as long as the light ,of the sun or of the stars is visible , if the remaining ,above named phenomenon, rain, occurs, the reading shall cease , both in the day time and at night.

Reading and studying, the religious scholars argue and debate, but without understanding, there is no peace.

He who forsakes his mother, his father, or a teacher without a sufficient reason, he who has contracted an alliance with outcasts either through the Veda or through a marriage.

Keeping his hair, nails, and beard clipped, subduing his passions by austerities, wearing white garments and , keeping himself pure, he shall be always engaged in studying the Veda and , such acts as are conducive to his welfare.