Your hills, O Earth, your snow-clad mountain peaks, your forests, may they show us kindliness… Impart to us vitalising forces that come, O Earth from deep within your body, your central point, your navel, purify us wholly.
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
Internally I am a hermit, and externally I am a prince. Arms mean protection to the poor and destruction of the tyrant. Baba Nanak had not renounced the world but had renounced maya, that is, self and ego.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments.
If you want to leave the world better than you found it, then use your heart of compassion and your life of concern.
Those who educate children well are to be honoured more than parents, for parents only gave life, and teachers, the art of living well.
