The great, unborn Self is undecaying, immortal, undying, fearless, infinite.
All the lights of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of inner light of the Self.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
Bright but hidden, the Self dwells in the heart. Everything that moves, breathes, opens, and closes Lives in the Self. Self is the source of love and may be known through love but not through thought. Attain this goal!
Internally I am a hermit, and externally I am a prince. Arms mean protection to the poor and destruction of the tyrant. Baba Nanak had not renounced the world but had renounced maya, that is, self and ego.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
