Guru Nanak

The lowest among the low castes, lower than the lowliest, Nanak is with them: He envies not those with worldly greatness.

The Dhoop (burnt incense), lamps and the Naivaed (an offering of eatables presented to deity or idol. All of them become false) by smell. (Then, O Rabb!) If Your Poojaa can be done only with these things, then by placing these false things before You) how will Your Bhagat do your Poojaa?

If we worship stone idols of gods and goddesses (or any other kind of idol for that matter), they can't give anything, (so) I don't ask anything from them. Their Poojaa is like churning water and hoping for butter! (These idols) sink themselves in water — how can they save human beings from the world-ocean?

One stone is lovingly decorated as a deity, while another stone is walked upon. If one is a god, then the other must also be a god. Namdev says I am not going to worship a stone installed as god. I worship One God who cannot be installed but permeates in all.

Hindus are getting Spiritually ruined by worshiping their idols all life and the Muslims by bowing their heads towards Mecca (believing that God exists only in Mecca); but both do not understand/realize YOUR true state.

Without genuine understanding, observing (Clergy-concocted) fasting, religious rituals and daily Poojaa lead only to the love of duality.

Make mercy your mosque and devotion your prayer mat.

Bathing in holy rivers alone cannot wash away sins of injustice and greed; the most important thing is not ritual purity, but purity of words and deeds.

Required prayers alone would be ineffective if those who offered them had their minds on worldly problems, instead of on God.

Guru Nanak taught that depriving others of their rights is a serious moral offense.

Injustice has no place in God's order because He is absolute just.

There is no Hindu and no Musalman.

Religion consists not in words; He who looks on all men as equal is religious.

By the grace of the Guru, one obtains the treasure of the True Name.

He who practices truth, contentment, and kindness, and who is free from ego, he is truly a Brahmin.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

The greatest wealth is to be without desires.

Those who have loved, have found God.

Why call her bad from whom are born kings?

He who is born, is bound to die. The only thing certain is death. All else is illusion.