Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak pronunciation was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated world-wide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Kartik Pooranmashi, the full-moon day in the month of Katak, October–November...
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth15 April 1469
CityPunjab, Pakistan
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Conquer your mind and conquer the world.
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The True One was there from time immemorial. He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. ... Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.
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See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
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There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.
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...Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be....
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God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
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But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.
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Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.
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The Formless Supreme Being abides in the Realm of Eternity. Over His creation He casts His glance of grace. In that Realm are contained all the continents and the universes, Exceeding in number all count. Of creation worlds upon worlds abide therein; All obedient to His will; He watches over them in bliss, And has each constantly in mind.
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That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
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Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
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If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .
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Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.
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By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.