True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
When you chant the Name, it actually moves through your whole being - purifying you, bestowing grace, and making you sacred…Chanting breaks down the barriers between you and your own heart.
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
Begin with yourself. There is no time to waste. It is your duty to do your part to bring God’s kingdom on earth.
Cosmic consciousness is consciousness of the Divine in the entire universe, in all things, in all the world, in all nature.
People do not know what the name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify your mind completely…
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.
Do not take this material world so seriously because it is always changing. Something terrible that you take so seriously today is going to change tomorrow.
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.
