Fine Jewels

DIVINE POETRY

CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD –“As far, verily, as this world-space extends, so far extends the space within the heart…”   

CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD –“As one not knowing that a golden treasure lies buried beneath his feet may walk over it again and again, yet never find it, so all beings live every moment in the city of Brahmn, yet never find him because of the veil \   of illusion by which he is concealed.”     

CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD –“He who knows both the transcendent and the immanent, with the immanent overcomes death, and with the transcendent reaches immortality.”  

CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD –“There is no joy in smallness. Joy is in the infinite.”

CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD –“This body is mortal, always gripped by death, but within it dwells the immortal Self. This Self, when associated in our consciousness with the body, is subject to pleasure and pain and so long as this association continues, freedom from pleasure and pain  can no man find.”   

CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD –“Verily, this whole world in Brahmn. Tranquil, let one worship it as that from which he came forth, as that into which he will be dissolved, as that in which he breathes.”        

CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD, UDDALAKA ARUNI TO HIS SON SVETAKETU –“In the beginning, this world was just Being (Sat), one only, without a, second. Some people say: ‘In the beginning, this world was just Non- being (a-Sat), one only, without a second; from that Non-being, Being was produced’. But verily my dear, hence could this be? How from Non-being could being be produced? On the contrary, in the beginning this world was just Being, one only, without a second.”

CHANDOGYA UPANISHAI –“The Self, indeed, is below. It is above. It behind. It is before; It to the south. It is to the north. The Self, indeed is all this. Verily, he who sees this, reflects on this and understands this delights in the Self, sports with the Self, rejoices in the Self, revels in the Self. Even while living in the body he becomes a self-ruler. He wields unlimited freedom in all the worlds. But those who think differently from this have others for their rulers; they live in perishable worlds. They have no freedom at all in the worlds”   

CHANDRASEKHARENDRA SARASWATI –“One may be surrounded by wicked people who are treacherous and evil in their ways. But one should not be impatient with them or show hatred…No person is wicked by nature but circumstances and upbringing make him so… if someone whom I hold dear turns to evil ; ways, I would strive to : help him with love. Even so would I treat a stranger. There is no stranger for a truth-seeker; all are his kindred. Let me see the same Self in the wicked man; let me not hate him.”

CHANDRASEKHARENDRA SARASWATI –“The samatva or equal feeling in the context of yoga does not denote universal equality, but only the capacity to treat good and bad results with the same feeling. The stress is on the performance of one’s allotted duty. That duty should be performed well, without thought of reward and with devotion in the heart… A wavering mind cannot contemplate the atman within, by which process alone the ultimate Truth can be realised. When the mind is tossed by indriyas, prajna will go out of proper course like a ship tossed by high winds in the ocean.”   

CORINTHIAN –“Though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.”

CORINTHIANS –“But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.”

CORINTHIANS –“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you…For God’s temple is holy, and that temple you are.”     

CORINTHIANS –“No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him.”

CORINTHIANS –“We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

DALAI LAMA –“Any problem within humanity should be solved in a humanitarian way and ahimsa (non-violence) is the human way of approaching a target.”  

DALAI LAMA –“Chronic anxiety can impair judgment, increase irritability, and hinder one’s overall effectiveness. It can also lead to physical problems… If you have negative feelings because of your own mental situation, you may project those feelings on to another, who then appears as someone negative and hostile. As a result, you feel fear… the appropriate action is to seek a solution.”

DALAI LAMA –“Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.”           

DALAI LAMA –“Each individual should treat fellow human beings as a part of himself.”

DALAI LAMA –“If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion… For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist, it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart — then no problem. Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human ‘brain’ with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human ‘heart’ with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is…”     

DALAI LAMA –“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”         

DALAI LAMA –“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.”             

DALAI LAMA –“Our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller.”   

DALAI LAMA –“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.”  

DALAI LAMA –“The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.”      

DALAI LAMA –“The problems we face today are human-created.”         

DALAI LAMA –“The very purpose of life is to be happy From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter.”     

DALAI LAMA –“Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, and forgiveness. You can change yourself.”   

DALAI LAMA –“We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.”   

DALAI LAMA –“We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, overreacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. We tend to take small things too seriously and blow them out of proportion.”    

DALAI LAMA –“One of the Buddhist techniques for enhancing compassion involves imagining a situation where there is a sentient being suffering—for instance, like a sheep about to be slaughtered by a butcher. And then try to butcher. And then try to imagine the suffering that the sheep may be going through and so on.”

DALAI LAMA –“We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practised only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. According to Shantideva, enemies are really good for us as we can learn a lot from them and build our inner strength.” 

DALAL LAMA –“What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”    

DHAMMAPADA –“”He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me” — in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease, in those who do not harbour such  thoughts hatred will cease.”    

DHAMMAPADA –“An ignorant man committing evil deeds does not realise the consequences. The imprudent man is consumed by his own deeds, like one burnt by fire.”     

DHAMMAPADA –“As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who does not practice it. As a flower that is lovely, beautiful and scent-laden, even so fruitful is the well-spoken word of one who practises it.”

DHAMMAPADA -“As a sweet-smelling, lovely lotus may grow upon a heap of rubbish thrown by the highway, even so a disciple of the Fully Enlightened One outshines the ignorant worldly people in wisdom.”   DHAMMAPADA –“Conquer anger by love, and evil by good.”    

DHAMMAPADA -“As a sweet-smelling, lovely lotus may grow upon a heap of rubbish thrown by the highway, even so a disciple of the Fully Enlightened One outshines the ignorant worldly people in wisdom.”

DHAMMAPADA –“As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell on his village.”

DHAMMAPADA –“Beings who imagine faults in the faultless and perceive no wrong in what is wrong, embrace false views and go to a woeful state.”   

DHAMMAPADA –“By self do you censure yourself. By self do you examine yourself.” 

DHAMMAPADA –“Conquer anger by love, and evil by good.” 

DHAMMAPADA –“Few are there among men who go across to the further shore; the rest of mankind only run about on the bank. But those who act rightly according to the teaching, as has been well taught, will cross over to the other shore, for the realm of passions is so difficult to cross.”   

DHAMMAPADA –“Few are there among men who go across to the further shore; the rest of mankind only run about on the bank. But those who act rightly according to the teaching, as has been well taught, will cross over to the other shore, for the realm of passions is so difficult to cross.” 

DHAMMAPADA –“Folk enwrap in craving are terrified like a captive hare. Held fast by fetters and bonds, for long they come to sorrow again and again…”  

DHAMMAPADA –“From endearment, affection, attachment, lust and craving springs grief, springs fear. For him who is wholly free from endearment, affection, attachment, lust and craving; there is no grief, much less fear.”

DHAMMAPADA –“From what is dear, grief is born,/ from what is dear, fear is born./ For someone freed from what is dear/ there is no grief/ — so why fear? From what is loved, grief is born,/ from what is loved, fear is born./ For someone freed from what is loved,/ there is no grief/ — so why fear? From delight, grief is born,/ from delight, fear is born./ For someone freed from delight/ there is no grief/ — so why fear? From sensuality, grief is born,/ from sensuality, fear is born./ For someone freed from sensuality/ there is no grief/ — so why fear? From craving, grief is born,/from craving, fear is born./ For someone freed from craving/ there is ho grief/ — so why fear?”      

DHAMMAPADA –“Give up anger, give up pride, and free yourself from worldly bondages. No sorrow can befall those who never try to possess people and things as their own.”     

DHAMMAPADA -“Good is restraint in deed; good is restraint in speech; good is restraint in mind; good is restraint in everything. The bhikkhu, restrained at all points, is freed from sorrow.”  

DHAMMAPADA –“Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.”    

DHAMMAPADA –“Hard to find is a man of great wisdom such a man is not born everywhere. Where such a wise man is born, that family thrives happily.”

DHAMMAPADA –“He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, and he robbed me” In those who harbor such thoughts hatred   is not appeased. He abused me, he beat    me, he defeated me, and he robbed me!” In those who do not harbour such thoughts hatred is appeased. Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.”

DHAMMAPADA –“He is not thereby just because he hastily arbitrates cases. The wise man should investigate both right and wrong. The intelligent person who leads others not falsely but lawfully and impartially, who is a guardian of the law, is called one who abides by righteousness.”

DHAMMAPADA –“He who is well controlled, he who delights inwardly, who is collected, who is solitary and content, him they call a bhikshu. The bhikshu who speaks wisely and calmly, who teaches the meaning and the law, his word is sweet. He who dwells in the law, delights in the law, meditates on the law, follows the law, that bhikshu will never fall away from the true law. A bhikshu who, though he receives little, does not despise what he has received, even the gods will praise him, if his life is pure, and if he is not slothful.”  

DHAMMAPADA –“Heedfulness is the path to the deathless; heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful do not die; the heedless are like unto the dead. The constantly meditative, the ever steadfast ones, realise the bond-free, supreme nibbana…the wise man guards earnestness as the greatest treasure.”       

DHAMMAPADA –“Him I call indeed a Brahmn who has traversed this miry road, the impassable world, difficult to pass, and its vanity, who has gone through, and reached the other shore.”

DHAMMAPADA –“If in anyone the thirty-six streams of craving that rush toward pleasurable thoughts are strong, in such a deluded person torrential thoughts of lust carry off.” 

DHAMMAPADA –“If, like a cracked gong, you silence yourself, you have already attained Nibbana’. No vindictiveness will be found in you.”   

DHAMMAPADA –“In beings there arise pleasures that rush toward sense-objects, and such beings are steeped in craving. Bent on happiness, they seek happiness. Verily, such men come to birth and decay.”

DHAMMAPADA –“Just as a tree with roots unharmed and firm, though hewn down, sprouts again, even so while latent craving is not rooted out, this sorrow springs up again and again.” 

DHAMMAPADA –“Let no one forget his own duty for the sake of another’s, however great; let a man, after he has discerned his own duty, be always attentive to his duty.”

DHAMMAPADA –“Let us live happily, without hate amongst those who hate. Let us dwell unhating amidst hateful men. Let us live happily, in good health amongst those who are sick. Let us dwell in good health amidst ailing men. Let us live happily, without yearning for sensual pleasures amongst those who yearn for them. Let us dwell without yearning amidst those who yearn. Let us live happily we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.”    

DHAMMAPADA –“Let us live happily, without hate amongst those who hate. Let us dwell unhating amidst hateful men. Let us live happily, in good health amongst those who are sick. Let us dwell in good health amidst ailing men.

DHAMMAPADA –“Many garlands can be made from a heap of flowers. Many good deeds should be done by one born a mortal.”

DHAMMAPADA –“One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one’s time in religious offerings to the gods…”   

DHAMMAPADA –“Oneself, indeed, is one’s saviour, for what other saviour could there be? With oneself wellcontrolled one obtains a saviour difficult to find.”   

DHAMMAPADA –“Should one see a wise man, who, like a revealer of treasure, points out faults and reproves; let one associate with such a wise person; it will be better, not worse, for him who associates with such a one. Let him advise, instruct, and dissuade one from evil; truly pleasing is he to the good, displeasing is he to the bad.”

DHAMMAPADA –“That which is made of iron, wood, or hemp, is not a strong bond, say the wise; the longing for jewels, ornaments, children, and wives is a far greater attachment. That bond is strong, say the wise. It hurls down, is supple, and is hard to loosen. This too the wise cut off, and leave the world, with no longing, renouncing sensual pleasures.” 

DHAMMAPADA –“The perfume of /flowers blows not against the wind, nor does the fragrance of sandalwood, tagara, and jasmine, but the fragrance of the virtuous blows against the wind; the virtuous man pervades every direction.”

DHAMMAPADA –“The perfume of flowers blows not against the wind, nor does the fragrance of sandalwood, tagara and jasmine, but the fragrance of the virtuous blows against the wind; the virtuous man pervades every direction… Whether in village or in forest, in vale or on hill, wherever arahants dwell — delightful, indeed, is that spot.”

DHAMMAPADA –“The streams of craving flow everywhere. The creeper sprouts and stands. Seeing the creeper that has sprung up, with wisdom cut off the root.” 

DHAMMAPADA –“Those who are infatuated with lust fall back into the stream, as does a spider into the web spun by itself. This too the wise cut off, and wander, with no longing, released from all sorrow.” 

DHAMMAPADA –“Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential. Those who know the essential to be essential and the unessential to be unessential, dwelling in right thoughts, arrive at the essential.”  

DHAMMAPADA –“To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one’s mind —this is the teaching of the Buddha’s. Enduring patience is the highest austerity. “Nibbana is supreme”, say the Buddha’s. One is not a true monk who harms neither another, nor a real renunciation that oppresses others.”        

DHAMMAPADA –“Up, up ‘yourself; from ‘worldly bondages. No .sorrow, can befall those who never try to possess people and things as their own.”    

DHAMMAPADA –“Victory begets enmity, the defeated dwell in pain. Happily the peaceful live, discarding both victory and defeat.”    

DIAMOND SUTRA –“The phenomena of life may be likened unto a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, the glistening dew. Or lightning flash, and thus they ought to be contemplated.” 

GANPATI MANTRA –“0 Lord Ganesha with a large body and curved trunk, with the brilliance of a million suns, please make all my work free of obstacles always.”     

GARLAND SUTRA –“According to what deeds are done/Do their resulting consequences come to be;/ Yet the doer has no existence: This is the Buddha’s teaching./Like a clear mirror, According to what comes before it,/Reflecting forms, each different,/ So is the nature of actions.”

GARLAND SUTRA –“Just as a great Conflagration Can burn up all things, So does Buddha’s field of blessings Burn up all fabrication.”        

GARLAND SUTRA –“Since beginningless past, all sentient beings and I have been parents and children, brothers and sisters to each other. Being full of greed, hatred and ignorance, pride, conceit, dishonesty, deception and all other afflictions, we have therefore harmed each other, plundering, raping and killing, doing all manner of evil. All sentient beings are like this — because of passions and afflictions they do not respect or honour each other, they do not agree with or obey each other, they do not defer to each other, they do not edify or guide each other, they do not care for each other — they go on killing and injuring each other, being enemies and malefactors to each other.”

GARUDA PURANA –“A man is the creator of his own fate, and even in his foetal life he is affected by the dynamics of the works of his prior existence…  This human body entombs a self which is nothing if not emphatically a worker. It is the works of this self in a prior existence which determine the nature of its organism in the next… What are looted cannot be blotted. A frightened mouse runs to its hole; a scared serpent, to a well; a terrified elephant, to its take — but where can a man fly from his Karma?”

GARUDA PURANA –“The parents of a child are but his enemies when they fail to educate him properly in his boyhood. An illiterate boy, like a heron among swans, cannot shine in the assembly of the learned. Learning imparts a heightened charm to a homely face. Knowledge is the best treasure that a man can secretly hoar(?’in his life. Learning is the revered of the revered. Knowledge makes a man honest, virtuous and endearing to society. Learning alone enables man to better his relations with friends and relatives.”           

GARUDA PURANA –“The vile are ever prone to detect the faults of others, though they be as small as mustard seeds, and persistently shut their eyes against their own, though they be as large as vilva fruit.” 

GAUTAM BUDDHA –“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path.”

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“Believe nothing, 0 monks, merely because you have been told it… or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings — that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.”  

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“Hatred does not cease with hatred. Hatred ceases by love.”   

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”    

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”   

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance.”    

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves you ignorant. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”              

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”            

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, and not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.”    

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.”

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.”  

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.”

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”   

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

GAUTAMA BUDDHA –“You cannot travel the path before you have become the Path itself… Walk on!”

GAYATRI MANTRA –“We contemplate the glory of Light illuminating the three worlds: gross, subtle, and causal. I am that vivifying power, love, radiant illumination, and divine grace of universal intelligence. We pray for the divine light to illumine our minds.”  

GAYATRI MANTRA, RIG VEDA –“We meditate upon the glorious splendour of the Vivifier divine. May he himself illumine our minds.”        

GURU AMAR DAS –“0 Nanak, one who obtains the Greatness of the Naam, looks upon pain and pleasure as one and the same.”       

GURU AMAR DAS –“Forgive my past sins and show me the path now, Killing my ego, I should remain in God’s service.” 

GURU ANGAD –“There is but one God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none. Nor does He nurse ill will for anyone, He is immortal, Neither is He born nor does He die, He is self-existent. He is reached by the Guru’s favour.”  

GURU ARJAN DEV –“The meek, rid of their ego, Humble, thrive in peace. The mighty, bloated with conceit, Are by their pride destroyed. He who prides in his authority to rule, He will be to Hell consigned. One who fancies himself as handsome, Is doomed to grovel in filth. He who thinks nourishing as mightiest of all May be reduced to ashes in a single instant Who, inflated with ego, regards others as insignificant Him Dharam Raj to dishonour condemns. Who, by Guru’s grace, is free of conceit, Is accorded approval at the Lord’s court.”   

GURU ARJAN DEV –“Why dear heart are you worried about what to do when the good Lord Himself provides sustenance for you. Creatures among rocks and boulders He created, before them, their means of living He placed… As geese and swans fly hundred and hundreds of miles leaving their young behind! Who feeds them? Who nurtures them? They know and remember Him all the time.”

GURU GEETA –“I bow to my teacher who is the supreme spirit, who is eternal and benign; who is beyond sound, line and art. Salutations to thee.”  

GURU GOBIND SIHGH –“As ordained by the Lord Eternal A new way of life is evolved. All the Sikhs are asked to accept the Holy Granth as the Guru. Guru Granth should be accepted As the living Guru. Those who wish to meet God Will find Him in the word.”   

GURU GOBIND SINGH –“As ordained by the Lord Eternal A new way of life is evolved. All the Sikhs are asked To accept the Holy Granth as the Guru. Guru Granth should be accepted As the living Guru. Those who wish to meet God Will find Him in the word.”   

GURU GOBIND SINGH –“Compassion and forgiveness should be your attainments.”      

GURU GOBIND SINGH –“Give me a boon, 0 God! I should not deflect from good deeds, I should not fear those with whom I fight, I must make my success a certainty.”        

GURU GOBIND SINGH –“He who did the entire world create Also created gods, demons and yakshas. He is the alpha and omega of time, the only incarnation Understand that He is my only Guru.”  

GURU GOBIND SINGH- “One should not lose courage even when faced with heavy odds… in negotiations compromise is essential but not on the terms of the tyrant.”

GURU GOBIND SINGH –“The Law of Causation meant that an existence full of repeated sufferings and miseries is dependent on certain causes and conditions and not upon God the creator… beings are never constituents of eternal substances like prakriti, and are not dependent on eternally existing atoms of ions (anu, paramanu), an unchangeable and imperishable soul, accidents without any cause, or ultimately on an unalterably fixed series of existences which we may call the Niyata… all living beings and other worldly objects are always in a state of continuous flow.”

GURU GOBIND SINGH –“Those who wish to meet God Will find Him in the Word. He who has no form, features, class or caste, He who belongs to no community, He who has no colour, no complexion, no mark, no garb, No one knows what He is like. Immovable, self-refulgent and all-powerful, He is the Indra of millions of Indras, He is the king of kings, He is the sovereign of the three worlds of demigods, human beings, and demons. The jungle and the woods remember Him every moment. How can one call Him by all His Names? The wise give Him Names according to His manifestations.”    

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“By His Grace, you enjoy all sorts of pleasures. You are provided with all the necessities of life… and yet, you forsake Him and attach yourself to others. Such sinful mistakes cling to fools…”   

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“Everyday, people carry on their business, with all sorts of devices to earn interest, for the sake of Maya. If they earn a profit, they are pleased, but their hearts are broken by losses.”    

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“For the sake of it, you journey to sacred shrines and holy rivers; but this priceless jewel is within your own heart.”    

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“I am enemy to no one, and no one is a stranger to me. Indeed, I am the friend of all.”  

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“In an orchard are planted numerous trees In that orchard has the tree of ambrosial Name borne fruit One sole Gardener this orchard cultivates Of each leaf and twig is mindful All manner of vegetation in it is planted All bearing fruit none barren.”  

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“Meditate and listen to the Name of the Lord, and give it to everyone. In this way the filth of lifetimes of karma shall be removed, and egotistical pride shall vanish from your mind.”   

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“No man shall coerce another; No person shall exploit another. Each individual has the inalienable birthright to seek and pursue happiness and self-fulfilment. Love and persuasion is the only law of social coherence.”      

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“The 68 sacred shrines of pilgrimage are contained in the constant worship ‘of the feet of the Exalted Guru… Filth does not stick to those who are true, but filth attaches itself to those who love duality This filth cannot be washed off, even by bathing at the 68 sacred shrines of pilgrimage.”      

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“The noose of Death is cut, and one’s wanderings cease; victory is obtained, when one conquers his own mind.”   

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“The teachings of the Guru are in my heart; the Lord is the source of nectar…. The nectar of the Name satisfies my mind.”    

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“Through the Word of the Shabad, enter the mansion of the Lord’s Presence; you shall be blessed with patience, forgiveness, truth and peace: With mind, body and mouth, chant His Glorious Virtues forever; courage and composure shall enter deep within your mind.”     

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“Where speech will not succeed, It is better to be silent.”   

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“Within yourself, make patience the bow, and make patience the bowstring. Make patience the arrow, the Creator will not let you miss the target. Those who are patient abide in patience; in this way, they burn their bodies. They are close to the Lord, but they do not reveal their secret to anyone. Let patience be your purpose in life; implant this within your being.”      

GURU GRANTH SAHIB –“You are the strength of the weak. He is not known through burnt offerings and ritual chanting.”    

GURU NANAK –“0 my heart! Love God as the lotus loves the water, The more it is beaten by the waves, the more its love enkindles; Having received its life from water, it dies without water, 0 my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.”         

GURU NANAK –“0 my Lord, dearest, dearer than life, Kind hearted giver of grace — Bestow Thy bhakti and name upon me. 0 my Lover, I remember Thy feet My heart awaits Thee.”  

GURU NANAK –“Ah honest shopkeeper alone can have a balanced personality. Only his words carry weight. What one requires is integrity and one can achieve it being true to one’s vocation.”  

GURU NANAK –“As fragrance abides in the flower as reflection is within the mirror, so does your Lord abide within you, why search for him without?”  

GURU NANAK –“Even kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.”        

GURU NANAK –“Far from wife and son am I, far from land and weather and other notions of that kind. I am the witness, the Eternal, the inner Self.”  

GURU NANAK –“God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is Creator of all and He himself takes the human form. The Lord can never be established nor created; the formless one is limitlessly complete in Himself.”     

GURU NANAK –“God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.” 

GURU NANAK –“He bestows pain and pleasure, according to the deeds done; the record of these deeds stays with the soul.”      

GURU NANAK –“How can one live in a house of snow draped in fire? Which is the cave in which the mind remains steady? Forsaking ego and arrogance helps shed duality The world is unkind for the conceited and the simpleton. Those who meditate on the Word can munch iron. He who sees the One Lord inside and out, his life is abated with the true Guru’s blessings.”   

GURU NANAK –“I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”      

GURU NANAK- “It is through woman that order is maintained. Then why call her inferior from whom all great ones are born.”

GURU NANAK –“Let God’s grace be the mosque and devotion the prayer mat. Let Qur’an be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting. Let good deeds be your kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your kalima be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour.”

GURU NANAK –“Let mind be the peasant that does the farming. Hard work be the water and the body, the field. Let Name be the seed and contentment the cover. You must don the dress of humility, then alone will love be born with His favour.”    

GURU NANAK –“Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a guru none can cross over to the other shore.”  

GURU NANAK –“Let your mind be the peasant that does the farming. Hard work be the water and the body the field. Let Name be the seed and contentment the cover. you must don the dress of humility Then alone will love be born with His favour. Such a one is blessed. Man, wealth doesn’t accompany you… Let the service you take be devotion. And God’s name the effort.”

GURU NANAK –“Make good works your soil, and the word of God your seed, ever irrigate it with the water of truth. Faith shall germinate and thus even a fool shall know the distinction between heaven …….   and hell.”  

GURU NANAK –“Make your Ramadan fast of noble conduct; thus you shall be a true Muslim. Make good deeds your Kaaba; truthfulness your preceptor; your namaz and Kalima pure actions; your rosary what pleases God.” 

GURU NANAK –“O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the flower; night and day I thirst for them.”  

GURU NANAK –“One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.”        

GURU NANAK –“Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the self.”

GURU NANAK- “Rid thyself of ego and perform service. Then alone shalt thou attain honour.”

GURU NANAK –“The faithful find the: Door of Liberation. The faithful uplift and redeem their family and relations. The faithful are saved, and carried across with the Sikhs of the Guru. The faithful, ONanak, do not wander around begging, Such is the Name of the Immaculate Lord. Only one who has faith comes to know such a state of mind.”      

GURU NANAK –“The word is the Guru,/ The Guru is the Word,/ For all nectar is enshrined in the world/ Blessed is the word which reveals the Lord’s name/ But more is the one who knows by the Guru’s grace… Whoever, styling himself as a teacher lives on the charity of others, never bow before him./ He who earns his livelihood by the sweat of Hasbro and shares it with others./ 0 Nanak only he can know the way.”     

GURU NANAK –“Those who see pain and pleasure as one and the same find peace; they are pierced through by the Shabad.”       

GURU NANAK –“Thou hast a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou hast a thousand forms and yet not one form.”     

GURU NANAK –“Through faith man finds the door of liberation: Even his relatives are liberated through him.  Through faith both preceptor and disciple are liberated. Through faith obstacles are overcome through faith the mind and intellect find concentration; And to the seeker are revealed all stages of enlightenment. Through faith one will not receive blows in the hereafter, nor be subject to death’s terror.”

GURU NANAK –“Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.”            

GURU NANAK –“We are human being neither Hindus nor Mussalmans. We are bodies and souls of the Supreme Being; call Him Allah or call Him Ram.”

GURU NANAK –“We are human of but one breath, And do not even know the span of our existenc and the time of our death… Some call me a ghost, some a goblin. Some call me a mere forsaken man. But I, insane Nanak, am mad after the Divine King. I have become crazy after Him And I recognise none other than God- There is but one God the Supreme Being. He is the creator of the universe and immanent reality He is devoid of fear and rancour, He is form Eternal, Unborn and Self-existent, He is realised by the grace of the holy preceptor.”    

GURU NANAK –“Wealth, property and Maya are false; in the end, the mortal departs in sorrow, leaving these behind.”   

GURU NANAK –“When the field is ripe, (the crop) is cut; only the chaff and the hedge remain. The corn is threshed with the husk, and the chaff is winnowed away. Men then put together the two mill-stones and sit down to grind corn. That which attacheth to the axle escapeth. Nanak hath seen a won- derful thing!”

GURU NANAK DEV –“God is only One. His name is True. He is the Creator, He is without tear. He is inimical to none, He never dies. He is beyond births and deaths. He is self illuminated. He is realised by the kindness of the True Guru Repeat His Name. He was True in the beginning. He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now. Nanak says that He will certainly be True in the future.”  

GURU NANAK DEV –“How can the mortal become True? How can the barrier of falsehood be smashed? Nanak replies that this can he achieved by obeying the pre-ordained Command and Will of God recorded for man.”

GURU NANAK DEV –“If one is lucky, one finds the true Guru. Without good luck he is not to be found. Meeting the true Guru, one becomes gold, But only if God so desires, 0 man! Remember God with devotion. God is found through the true Guru. And one remains merged in God. The true Guru helps one gain knowledge. And the doubts are removed. The true Guru makes one realise God. And frees from the cycle of birth and death. With Guru’s grace, the dead become alive. And the reborn devote themselves to God. He alone attains salvation. He gets rid of his ego, He controls the uncontrollable, Gains the knowledge of good and evil, And merges into the ultimate.”       

GURU NANAK DEV –“Mortals cannot comprehend God by pondering over Him thousands of times. Mortals may remain silent and absorbed in the meditation of God and His love, yet peace of mind will not be achieved. Yearning of hungry mortals will never end by keeping fasts, or by collecting loads of worldly riches.”  

GURU NANAK DEV –“Mortals may possess thousands of clever thoughts or the biggest wisdom, yet not even one wise thought will accompany him to the next world.”  

GURU RAM DAS –“Speaking as Gurmukh, speaking as Gurmukh, chanting the Naam, all iisease is eradicated. As Gurmukh, chanting the Naam, all disease is bradicated, and the body becomes free of disease.”         

GURU RAM DAS –“You are pure, without a blemish beyond understanding, beyond reach. Everyone remembers you. You are the True Creator. It’s all your creation.”

GURU RAM DAS –“You are the primal Lord, creator beyond reach There is none equal to you; From age to age you are the only one Forever the only one who gives stability; What pleases you comes to pass What you do comes to be; You created all that exists You will take it all back as you will; Your slave Nanak sings your praises. Who knows all that is worth knowing?”        

GURU TEGH BAHADUR –“   He alone is wise who fears not another, nor makes others afraid.”    

GURU TEGH BAHADUR –“All worldly love is false. Everyone is devoted to his own comfort. Whether it’s a wife or a friend everyone is attached to you Because of selfish ends. It’s a strange truism Nobody gives you company in the end. But foolish men don’t understand it. I caution you day after day” 

GURU TEGH BAHADUR –“He alone is wise who fears not another, nor makes others afraid.”  

GURU TEGH BAHADUR –“It remained in my heart what was in my heart. I neither remembered God nor went on pilgrimage. And Death has caught me by the forelock. Wife, friends, sons, vehicles, property wealth, and the rest. Everything is a myth except the name of God. I wandered about for several ages and then obtained the human form.”       

GURU TEGH BAHADUR –“You must fear even unconscious sins, Seek support of the good and gracious God, Who is the killer of all fears. You must remember Him whose praises are sung by the Vedas and the Puranas. Great is God’s name in remembering Him sins is washed away…” 

GURU TEGH BAHADUR-“He alone is wise, O Nanak, who fears not another, nor makes other, afraid.”

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