Guru Nanak Quotes on Wisdom & Knowledge (15 Quotes)

Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.

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.

The love of Maya has ruined the world, people die, to be re born, over and over again. People die to be re born, over and over again, while their sins steadily increase, without spiritual wisdom, they are deluded.

I ask for the Lord s spiritual wisdom, and the Lord s sublime sermon, through the Name of the Lord, I have come to know His value and His state.

Purchase the jewel, the priceless treasure, the True Guru has given this understanding. The profit of profits is devotional worship of the Lord, one s virtues merge into the virtues of the Lord.

Oblations to the manes ought to be carefully presented to those devoted to knowledge, but offerings to the gods, in accordance with the reason of the sacred law , to men of all the four above mentioned classes .

For the wisdom, the energy, the strength, the sight, and the vitality of a man who approaches a woman covered with menstrual excretions, utterly perish.

But the wise declare that the food which is offered to other unholy, inadmissible men, enumerated above, is turned into adipose secretions, blood, flesh, marrow, and bone.

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

The food of those other persons who have been successively enumerated as such whose food must not be eaten, the wise declare ,to be as impure as skin, bones, and hair.

Without a full knowledge of the rules, prescribed by the sacred law for the acceptance of presents, a wise man should not take anything, even though he may pine with hunger.

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.

That understanding, imparted by the Lord, wells up, there is no other understanding. Deep within, and beyond as well, You alone exist, O Lord, You Yourself impart this understanding.

Let him not interrupt a cow who is suckling ,her calf , nor tell anybody of it. A wise man, if he sees a rainbow in the sky, must not point it out to anybody.

If he avoids her, while she is in that condition, his wisdom, energy, strength, sight, and vitality will increase.