Guru Nanak Quotes on World (31 Quotes)


    My mind has become disillusioned and renounced the world, obtaining the Blessed Vision of the Guru s Darshan, it has found peace.

    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.

    Greed, worldly entanglements and Maya deceive the world.

    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.


    Between a son s son and the son of a daughter there exists in this world no difference, for even the son of a daughter saves him ,who has no sons in the next world, like the son s son.

    They are intuitively embellished with priceless virtues, they have come to save the world. God s Feet are the boat, which carries many across the terrifying world ocean.

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

    Who could prosper, while he injures those , men who provoked to anger, could create other worlds and other guardians of the world, and deprive the gods of their divine station.

    Cry out in mourning you who have come to mourn, this world is false and fraudulent.

    We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings The woman is born from woman there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman

    Serve your Almighty Lord and Master, and your path in the world hereafter will be easy. Take this easy path, and you shall obtain the fruits of your rewards, and receive honor in the world hereafter.

    Through a son he conquers the worlds, through a son s son he obtains immortality, but through his son s grandson he gains the world of the sun.

    Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

    The One who creates and dissolves the world that Lord and Master alone knows His creative power.

    He is my Beloved Husband Lord, the Life of the World for whom should I weep

    Defrauded by Maya and worldly affairs, the weepers weep. They weep for the sake of worldly affairs, and they do not wash off their own filth, the world is a dream.

    They alone are proclaimed as brave warriors in the world hereafter, who receive true honor in the Court of the Lord.

    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.

    Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

    They love to deal in Maya in this world, coming and going, they suffer in pain.

    God is the all powerful Creator, the Cause of causes. He preserves the whole world, reaching out with His hand.

    He who describes himself to virtuous ,men , in a manner contrary to truth, is the most sinful ,wretch in this world, he is a thief who makes away with his own self.

    The Lord Himself is detached, while the world is entangled in conflict, by His Command, He emancipates it. They may put this off today, but tomorrow they are seized by death, in love with duality, they practice corruption.

    One s true home is obtained by serving the True One, real Truth comes by being truthful. By falsehood and greed, no place of rest is found, and no place in the world hereafter is obtained.

    One s virtues merge into the virtues of the Lord as one comes to understand one s own self, earning the profit of devotional worship in this world.

    Blessed is his coming into the world, he banishes self conceit, and is acclaimed as true in the Court of the True Lord.

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

    Food given to a seller of Soma becomes ordure, that given to a physician pus and blood, but that presented to a temple priest is lost, and that given to a usurer finds no place in the world of the gods .

    For whom should we mourn, O Baba This world is merely a drama.

    Our service in the world gets us a seat in the Court of the Lord


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