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


Guru Nanak

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O Nanak, know Him as the True Guru, who unites all with the Lord.
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When the True Guru is pleased and satisfied, O Nanak, the True Name is obtained.
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O Nanak, the filthy ones become clean only when they meet and surrender to the True Guru.
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O Nanak, make the True Guru your friend; going to His Court, you shall obtain the True Lord.
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O Nanak, the True Guru is always kind and compassionate, unto those whom the Lord Himself has blesse...
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He is Beautiful in all places; I do not see any other at all. Meeting with the True Guru, O Nanak, t...
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The Boat of the True Guru is the Name of the Lord. How can we climb on board? One who walks in harmo...
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O Nanak, some behold the Blessed Vision of the True Guru s Darshan, with love and affection, conquer...
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O Nanak, no one else is truly alive; those who merely live shall depart in dishonor; everything they...
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Guru Nanak speaks the Teachings; whoever listens to them is carried across.
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He is called the Most Perfect of the Perfect. He sits upon His Perfect Throne. He looks so Beautiful...
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What teachings can be imparted to those who have the Divine Guru Nanak as their Guru? We understand ...
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives." TERRY PRATCHETT O Nanak, if the shaven-headed ones do not bathe, then seven handfuls of ashes are upon their heads.
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Why should anyone be afraid? O Nanak, those who recognize the True Lord are blended with the True On...
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We called mainly business people who would be familiar with the school district. Not one person had ...
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.
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It was said that if you duped death, if you kept someone alive who should have died, then you might ...
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O Nanak, they merge in celestial bliss.
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The Great Giver lives; no one dies. O Nanak, those who do not enshrine the Lord within their minds a...
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Through the True Guru, the One and only Lord was implanted within me; servant Nanak has taken to the...
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If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which ...
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With each and every breath, Nanak sings the Lord's Praises. The True Guru has covered my sins.
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O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be saved, contemplating the True Name.
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Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
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Now I see that if one doesn’t know how to die, one can hardly know how to live—because death is ...
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Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?
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Blessed, blessed is the Guru of servant Nanak; meeting Him, all my sorrows and troubles have come to...
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Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.
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The Guru has cut away my bonds. I shall not have to dance in the wrestling arena of life again. Nana...
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;'...
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As he submits to God's Will, and surrenders to the Creator, he is rid of selfishness and conceit. An...
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O Nanak, those ears are acceptable, which listen to the True Master.
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Abandoning all devices and contrivances, I have sought His Sanctuary. Nanak has fallen at the Feet o...
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From oneness, He has brought forth the countless multitudes. O Nanak, they shall merge into the One ...
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Without the Guru, no one has found the Lord s Name, O my Siblings of Destiny.
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O Nanak, he alone serves the Lord, whom the Lord attaches to Himself.
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O Nanak, in the end, all this vanishes like a dream!
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Have Mercy upon me, O Lord, Sustainer of the world. The dust of the feet of the Saints is all the tr...
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O Nanak, as the Lord Himself engages him, so is he engaged, no one has any say in this matter.
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If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
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One who asks for a false gift, shall not take even an instant to die. But one who continually serves...
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O Nanak, without the Name, everyone is deluded, ruined by emotional attachment to Maya.
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If one knew, he wondered, the facts,
would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached wh...
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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
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Servant Nanak serves the Lord, the Banker; he shall never again be called to render his account.
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If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
She knew (the hurricane) was bad but not how bad.
DONNA JONES
I was kidding. Even I'm not that promiscuous. You guru people have no sense of humor.”

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O starry night, This is how I want to die
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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
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O Nanak, that Primal Color which the Lord has applied, shall never fade away.
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Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
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If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask...
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All that is seen is You, Lord, the expansion of the expanse. Says Nanak, the Guru has removed my dou...
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Becoming Merciful, my Lord and Master has ended my comings and goings in reincarnation. Meeting with...
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O Nanak, they are forever the happy soul-brides, whose light merges into His Light.
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O Nanak, they merge imperceptibly into the Lord, who has bestowed His Favor upon them.
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O Nanak, the Lord Himself is the Appraiser, who distinguishes the counterfeit from the genuine.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,
Fo...
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What Glorious Virtues of Yours can I describe, O my True Guru?
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Those who meditate on the True Guru are satisfied and fulfilled. Those who meditate on the True Guru...
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We would not be in court today if he had not felt remorse and spoken to somebody else about how bad ...
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Serving the True Guru, one finds a lasting peace, the pains of birth and death are removed.
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If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I...
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O Nanak, the devotees are happy and peaceful forever. They are absorbed in the True Name.
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Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
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Overcome your egotism, O perishable bride, and walk in the Guru s Way.
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Those who go to see the Guru obtain all treasures. Those whose minds are attached to the Guru's Feet...
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If most people could ever understand a person who is truly good, then history would not have witness...
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No one should be worried that if you're drinking more soda or eating more muffins you're going to di...
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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'How can I be more like you?' she asked the guru. 'The best way to be more like me is to be more lik...
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Death makes us afraid to do bad, because we have no idea where we would be after death.
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I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
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If Amy was there in the last 200 meters we knew that would be bad for the competition.
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Kids, kids. I'm not going to die. That only happens to bad people.
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You may practice celibacy, truth, austere self discipline and rituals, but without the Guru, you sha...
GURU NANAK
Serving the True Guru, I have obtained the supreme status, I meditate on the Lord with every breath ...
GURU NANAK
In the True Court of the Lord, they are approved. They are approved by their Lord and Master, and ac...
GURU NANAK
When the True Guru united me, then I was naturally united with my Husband Lord, and now, I keep Him ...
GURU NANAK
If he avoids quarrels with these persons, he will be freed from all sins, and by suppressing ,all su...
GURU NANAK
No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to ...
GURU NANAK
As the second half of the month is preferable to the first half, even so the afternoon is better for...
GURU NANAK
As Indra sends copious rain during the four months of the rainy season, even so let the king, taking...
GURU NANAK
The eldest alone may take the whole paternal estate, the others shall live under him just as ,they l...
GURU NANAK
Whatever ,kind on seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, ,a plant of that same kind, marke...
GURU NANAK
O Nanak, they merge in celestial bliss.
GURU NANAK
I am a sinner, I am a worthless sinner, I am meek, but I am Yours, Lord.
GURU NANAK
I am a worthless sinner, and I am meek, but I am Yours, I seek Your Sanctuary, O Merciful Lord.
GURU NANAK
Let the son of an appointed daughter first present a funeral cake to his mother, the second to her f...
GURU NANAK
Now learn fully from whom all these manes derive their origin, and with what ceremonies they ought t...
GURU NANAK
Immediately on the birth of his first born a man is ,called the father of a son and is freed from th...
GURU NANAK
O my mind, obtaining the blessing of this human birth, some are engaged in the trade of Truth.
GURU NANAK
There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He ne...
GURU NANAK
Meditating on the Lord s Name, and enshrining Him within the mind, the Guru s Teachings are understo...
GURU NANAK
By the destiny written upon their foreheads, they become truly unattached, and by reflective meditat...
GURU NANAK
By His Command, one intuitively merges and blends with Him.
GURU NANAK
Day and night woman must be kept in dependence by the males ,of their ,families , and, if they attac...
GURU NANAK
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualitie...
GURU NANAK
Thus has been declared the ever pure popular usage ,which regulates the relations between husband an...
GURU NANAK
Offspring, ,the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and...
GURU NANAK
Listen ,now to the following holy discussion, salutary to all men, which the virtuous ,of the presen...
GURU NANAK
Come, O Baba, and Siblings of Destiny let s join together, take me in your arms, and bless me with y...
GURU NANAK
That one ,plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen, whatever seed is sown, ,a plan...
GURU NANAK
The food eaten by hermits in the forest, milk, Soma juice, meat which is not prepared with spices , ...
GURU NANAK
By the sacred tradition the woman is declared to be the soil, the man is declared to be the seed, th...
GURU NANAK
O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the flower; night and day I ...
GURU NANAK
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste
GURU NANAK
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
GURU NANAK
She knows her Beloved, the Architect of karma, and she speaks words of ambrosial sweetness.
GURU NANAK
Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witnes...
GURU NANAK
The Lord has perfectly arranged this wedding, the Saints have come together as a wedding party.
GURU NANAK
If such ,persons who are secret thieves, dwell in the realm of a king, they constantly harass his go...
GURU NANAK
Defrauded by Maya and worldly affairs, the weepers weep. They weep for the sake of worldly affairs, ...
GURU NANAK
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
GURU NANAK
Go and ask the happy soul brides, O perishable bride, who have eradicated self conceit from within.
GURU NANAK
On comparing the seed and the receptacle ,of the seed , the seed is declared to be more important, f...
GURU NANAK
Keeping his hair, nails, and beard clipped, subduing his passions by austerities, wearing white garm...
GURU NANAK
Deep within, they are stained with the filth of emotional attachment to Maya, they deal in Maya alon...
GURU NANAK
One may also entertain on such occasions one s maternal grandfather, a maternal uncle, a sister s so...
GURU NANAK
They have wasted away their whole lives in vain, those faithless cynics die regretting and repenting...
GURU NANAK
Such property, as well as a gift subsequent and what was given ,to her by her affectionate husband, ...
GURU NANAK
O Nanak, without the Name, everyone is deluded, ruined by emotional attachment to Maya.
GURU NANAK
The Lord s humble servant begs for the Lord s Name, for the Lord s Praises, and for devotional worsh...
GURU NANAK
By protecting those who live as ,becomes Aryans and by removing the thorns, kings, solely intent on ...
GURU NANAK
The king shall cause a goldsmith who behaves dishonestly, the most nocuous of all the thorns, to be ...
GURU NANAK
As the male is to whom a wife cleaves, even so is the son whom she brings forth, let him therefore c...
GURU NANAK
Intuitively embellished are those, who with their tongues chant the Name of the Lord.
GURU NANAK
Let him not eat any dainty food which he does not offer to his guest, the hospitable reception of gu...
GURU NANAK
All this he shall present to his guests , being pure and attentive, successively invite them to part...
GURU NANAK
In birth and death, in coming and going, this soul is held in bondage by corruption.
GURU NANAK
Between sons born of wives equal ,in caste ,and without ,any other distinction no seniority in right...
GURU NANAK
Nor ,the food given by those who knowingly bear with paramours ,of their wives , and by those who in...
GURU NANAK
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and ...
GURU NANAK
The elder brother who marries after the younger, the younger brother who marries before the elder, t...
GURU NANAK
They purchase the jewel, the invaluable treasure, when the True Guru gives this understanding.
GURU NANAK