I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?


Guru Nanak

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Nanak builds his house upon that site where there is no death, no birth, and no old age.
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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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That which is pre-ordained cannot be erased. O Nanak, without serving the True Guru, liberation is n...
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Meeting with the True Guru, you shall not have to go through the cycle of reincarnation again; the p...
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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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Serving the True Guru, one finds a lasting peace, the pains of birth and death are removed.
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Guru Nanak speaks the Teachings; whoever listens to them is carried across.
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O Nanak, know Him as the True Guru, who unites all with the Lord.
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Through the Perfect Guru, one becomes perfect; O Nanak, meditate on the True One.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
When the True Guru is pleased and satisfied, O Nanak, the True Name is obtained.
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Abandoning all devices and contrivances, I have sought His Sanctuary. Nanak has fallen at the Feet o...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Birth actually seems like death to the one who is about to be born because in childbearing; there ar...
ED BULEY
Without the Guru, I am without the Guru, I am totally dishonored.
GURU NANAK
He is Beautiful in all places; I do not see any other at all. Meeting with the True Guru, O Nanak, t...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevit...
BHAGAVAD GITA
People serve the True Guru only when the fever of egotism has been eradicated. Nanak has met the Gur...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
JEAN COCTEAU
O Nanak, the filthy ones become clean only when they meet and surrender to the True Guru.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
With each and every breath, Nanak sings the Lord's Praises. The True Guru has covered my sins.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
The Guru has cut away my bonds. I shall not have to dance in the wrestling arena of life again. Nana...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Through the True Guru, the One and only Lord was implanted within me; servant Nanak has taken to the...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
In death, I am born.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not fo...
BHAGAVAD GITA
Fate would have it that the timing of your birth determines your measure of luck. You’re either bo...
T. A. THOMPSON
Fate would have it that the timing of your birth determines your measure of luck. You’re either bo...
TANYA THOMPSON
O Nanak, make the True Guru your friend; going to His Court, you shall obtain the True Lord.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is ...
KATE FORSYTH
Desires are fulfilled, when one meets the True Guru; O Nanak, His humble servant is fruitful and pro...
ATHARVA VEDA
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what wo...
ISAAC ASIMOV
The Boat of the True Guru is the Name of the Lord. How can we climb on board? One who walks in harmo...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fac...
ROBBY BENSON
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
You can love me or hate me, but either way, I do not care. Success put me where I am today and the l...
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am havin...
MADONNA
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am hav...
MADONNA
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am havin...
MADONNA CICCONE
Death and Birth are always celebrated the same way in all the cultures irrespective of the country y...
RUCHIRA KHANNA
Blessed, blessed is the Guru of servant Nanak; meeting Him, all my sorrows and troubles have come to...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
All that is seen is You, Lord, the expansion of the expanse. Says Nanak, the Guru has removed my dou...
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We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be...
MITCH ALBOM
We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to
JAMES GRIPPANDO
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
MARQUIS DE SADE
O Nanak, the True Guru is always kind and compassionate, unto those whom the Lord Himself has blesse...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
It's do or die for me. Either kill me or be killed, that's how I'm looking at it.
DOMINICK GUINN
I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not b...
RAMANA MAHARSHI
By singing the Guru's hymns, I, the minstrel spread the Lord's glory. Nanak, by praising the...
GURU NANAK
The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate ...
KABBALAH
I am lovable and capable. I am not perfect. I don’t have to be. I have worth. My worth cannot be m...
TOM KRAUSE
You either love the profession or not. There can be no halfhearted efforts.
CONNIE GENS
But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. An...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary...
ALBERT CAMUS
Those who do not serve the True Guru waste away their lives in vain. O Nanak, the Lord does just as ...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
“Death do not disturb me, I have no fear for death. I have died thousands of time in past. My conc...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER
I am sure this Jesus will not do, / Either for Englishman or Jew.
WILLIAM BLAKE
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
I am certain,
my love,
that poetry was born
only after your birth.
KAMAND KOJOURI
I am going and I don't know where I am going. I leave you searching for answers. When I get there, i...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of bein...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of bi...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
How can I know these trees, how can I know you, how can I know the other if I myself am unknown to m...
OSHO
O Nanak, some behold the Blessed Vision of the True Guru s Darshan, with love and affection, conquer...
GURU GOBIND SINGH
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Becoming Merciful, my Lord and Master has ended my comings and goings in reincarnation. Meeting with...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despe...
ERICH FROMM
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despera...
EMILY DICKINSON
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despera...
ERICH FROMM
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashf...
MARGARET CAVENDISH
Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
MICHAEL SHERMER
Those who meditate on the True Guru are satisfied and fulfilled. Those who meditate on the True Guru...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
MAYA ANGELOU
Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women...
MIKE HUCKABEE
I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire famil...
HARBHAJAN SINGH
I am of the school that believes, for the most part, that gays are born and not made. That is, I bel...
PETER NAVARRO
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after t...
RACHEL CUSK
I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
VIN SCULLY
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which ...
EPICURUS
I have searched in vain, and I am so confused; in this darkness, I cannot find the path. In egotism,...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
If a man is born, he should be born either a king or a fool.
VIKRANT PARSAI
From the day we born, we are destined for great things but its depend on us either it can be real or...
AINA JAHIRAH
You're born alone and you die alone. No one can help you and no one can stop those things..everyman ...
JOEL MADDEN
This union with the guru, O Kabir,Sets me free; like salt mingledWith flour, I am no more I!
KABIR
My Darling Beloved True Guru is my Protector. I am a helpless child - please cherish me.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and...
GURU GOBIND SINGH
I am writing in despair. I am cursing the day of my birth just like Job. I would have wished a quick...
GAO ZHAN
Some people say accident. It may be an accident, it may be something else, ... very well equipped . ...
YOWERI MUSEVENI
When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.
ROBERT BRIDGES
People are either born hosts or born guests
MAX BEERBOHM
People are either born hosts or born guests.
MAX BEERBOHM
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
WOODY ALLEN
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory.. For without ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
You can either agree with me or be wrong!
DON HANKINS
I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everythi...
HENRY R. LUCE
Summit or death, either way, I win.
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Without you there would be no me.
I am everything reflected in your eyes.
I am everythin...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
What I want to say is that nobody is unbeatable. There's a kid out there who probably wants to b...
CHAD LE CLOS

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