"The world is a garden, O Nanak, and the Gardener is God."

"The world is burning in the fire of desire, O Nanak, save it, save it, Lord!"

"The nights are wasted sleeping, and the days are wasted eating; the human spends his life in vain."

"That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth."

"If a person bathes at sixty-eight holy places, but does not cleanse their mind, what good is it?"