My friend, the enjoyment of that food is evil which gives pain to the body and evil thoughts to the mind.
The wearing of that dress is evil which gives pain to the body and evil thoughts to the mind.
Thus spake Guru Nanak
Tag: Sikhism
No use thinking lakhs of times, if you do not act for a single time. No use observing silence continually, if you do not stop your wandering mind. No hunger can be satiated simply by binding a loaf of bread over the stomach.
Thus spake Guru Nanak
Restrain the mind-stuff from ebbing away through the nine portals in the body. This will gain you access to the tenth door, which leads to the true house of your Father with its eternal music.
Thus spake Guru Nanak
Bathe in the water of virtues, apply the perfume of truth to your body.
This spake Guru Nanak
Kabir in Gurbani
“Kabeer garab na keejiye, rank na hasiye koe,
Aja hu naao samund mein, kya jana kya hoye”
{ O Kabeer, don’t ever be proud or laugh at other’s misery,
Your boat is still in the world-ocean, who knows what may happen with you?}
“Kabeer aisa ko nahi, mandar de-e jarae,
Pancho larke maarke, rahe Raam lio lae”
{ O Kabeer, is there anyone who can burn his own house (‘mind’),
kill his five sons (lust, ire,avarice,attachment,ego) to remain lovingly attached to the Lord?)
“Kabeer charan kamal ki mouj ko, keh kese unmaan,
Kehbe ko sobha nahin dekhat hi parvaan”
{ O Kabeer, the ecstatic enjoyment of the Divine (enlightenment) is ineffable.
Describing it in words is doing injustice to it, it’s splendor is only to be self-experienced}
“Kabeer meri jaat ko, sabko hasne haar,
Balhari is jaat ko, jeh japyo sirjanhaar”
{ O Kabeer, everyone laughs at my social caste,
but, I am a sacrifice to it, as I got to meditate on the Creator in it.}