Guru Nanak

Founder of Sikhism

Early Modern influential 183 sayings

Sayings by Guru Nanak

There is but One God. His Name is Truth. He is the Creator. He fears none. He is without enmity. He is timeless, unborn, self-existent. By the Guru's Grace, He is met.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Mool Mantar, Japji Sahib, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

There is but One God. His Name is Truth. He is the Creator. He fears none. He is without enmity. He is timeless, unborn, self-existent. By the Guru's Grace, He is met.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Mool Mantar, Japji Sahib, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

He who recognizes the One Lord through all, is a true Brahmin.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Asa di Var, Ang 468, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

He who recognizes the One Lord through all, is a true Brahmin.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Asa di Var, Ang 468, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Disputed

To conquer the mind is to conquer the world.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Japji Sahib, Pauri 28, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

Na Ham Hindu Na Musalmaan - I am not a Hindu, nor am I a Muslim.

c. 1499 CE — Guru Granth Sahib, Ang 1136, upon his reappearance from the Bein River
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Na Ham Hindu Na Musalmaan - I am not a Hindu, nor am I a Muslim.

c. 1499 CE — Guru Granth Sahib, Ang 1136, upon his reappearance from the Bein River
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

He who practices truth, contentment, and compassion, he alone is a true Yogi.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Japji Sahib, Pauri 28, Guru Granth Sahib (interpretation)
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

Without the True Guru, none obtains salvation.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Japji Sahib, Pauri 6, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Without the True Guru, none obtains salvation.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Japji Sahib, Pauri 6, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

The world is a drama, staged in a dream.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Maru Solhe, Ang 1021, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

If there are hundreds of moons and thousands of suns, without the Guru, there is only utter darkness.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Asa di Var, Ang 463, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

If there are hundreds of moons and thousands of suns, without the Guru, there is only utter darkness.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Asa di Var, Ang 463, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Disputed

He who has no enemies, and is without hatred, and who sees God in all beings, he is a true saint.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Rag Dhanasari, Ang 684, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

He who has no enemies, and is without hatred, and who sees God in all beings, he is a true saint.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Rag Dhanasari, Ang 684, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Disputed

The one who eats what he earns through hard labor and shares it, he alone knows the path.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Var Sarang, Ang 1245, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The one who eats what he earns through hard labor and shares it, he alone knows the path.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Var Sarang, Ang 1245, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

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.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Sri Rag, Ang 16, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

The body is the field, the mind is the farmer, good deeds are the seeds, and God's Name is the water. Cultivate it well, O peasant, and you shall reap salvation.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Rag Sorath, Ang 595, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The body is the field, the mind is the farmer, good deeds are the seeds, and God's Name is the water. Cultivate it well, O peasant, and you shall reap salvation.

c. 15th-16th century CE — Rag Sorath, Ang 595, Guru Granth Sahib
Strange & Unusual Disputed