Guru Nanak Quotes on Gurpurab: Celebrate First Sikh Guru's 548th Birth Annivers
Quote Reads: Asceticism doesn’t lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn’t lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.
Quote Reads: I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
Quote Reads: I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
Quote Reads: I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
Quote Reads: Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
Quote Reads: Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Quote Reads: 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.
Quote Reads: The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
Quote Reads: Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
Quote Reads: There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self-illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and have ever been True, He is also True now.
Guru Nanak Jayanti celebrations will begin early morning with Prabhat Pheris, a morning procession starting at the beautifully decorated Gurudwaras. It comprises of singing hymns, a Katha session, where teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji will be recited and conclude with devotional ‘Kirtan’. It will be followed by the community lunch called ‘langars’ and finally end with at 2 am with singing Gurbani. We wish each and everyone celebrating Guru Nanak’s birth anniversay, a very Happy Guru Nanak Jayanti.
