The world is a drama, staged in a dream

Conquer your mind and conquer the world.

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.

Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

I don't die... He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.

Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.

The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.

Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

They who quarrel with others, instead of quarrelling with their own hearts, waste their lives.

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

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

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

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

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.

There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.

Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.

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

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.

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.

By singing the Guru's hymns, I, the minstrel spread the Lord's glory. Nanak, by praising the True Name, I have obtained the perfect Lord.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two bodies.

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