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Guru Nanak Dev Quotes from Japji Saheb

all creation is his (god) name;
there is no place that is not his name.
the lord is truth. truth is his name.
his praises are sung in endless ways.
those in whose heart rama (god) abides
never die nor can be cheated.
his (god) compassion is beyond all description.
the lord's gifts are so great he expects nothing in return.
oh yogi, assume the posture of contentment and modesty.
pick up the carrying bag of dignity and honor,
and apply the sacred ash of meditation.
countless are the names and the places where you (god) dwell,
countless worlds that have never been reached.
to say countless is to burden the mind.
if i have succeeded in attaining his (god) pleasure,
i have bathed in all the holy rivers.
and if i fail to please him,
why should i bathe and adorn myself?
he makes the worthless worthy,
and showers the gifted with more gifts.
none but god can bestow such excellence.
saint or sinner are no empty words;
all our actions have been recorded.
man sows and he himself reaps the harvest.
his (god) is the timeless form.
never born, self-creating.
he is attained by the guru's grace.
however well i know him, he cannot be described.
he cannot be expressed by words.
the guru is the secret that solves the riddle.
he is the benefactor of all.
let me never forget him.
were you to live through four ages,
or even ten times more,
were you known on all nine continents,
and were to gain universal following,
were you to earn fame and praise from all of mankind,
if you have not his grace, nothing will save you.
remember the true name
and meditate on its glory in the ambrosial hour.
through your actions you receive this body,
and by his grace the door to salvation opens.
if my single tongue becomes a hundred thousand,
and this hundred thousand becomes twenty times more,
with each tongue would i sing a hundred thousand times
the only name of the master of the world.
the real power lies in his hands
-- who creates and keeps on watching.
nanak says, no one is high and no one is low before him.
if you must bow, bow to him (god).
he is the primal being, pure, without beginning or end;
he is the unstruck sound.
he is immutable through all time.