While preaching he knoweth not God's word, and, attacheth himself to a prostitute.

With poison in his heart he pretendeth that he hath no doubts, but Death will disgrace him.

He who serveth the True Guru and removeth pride from his heart, is a true Sanyasi;

He desireth not clothes or food, but taketh what is freely offered him;

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He chattereth not; he amasseth the wealth of patience and his passions he subdueth with God's name.

Blessings on that man, who whether householder, Sanyasi, or Jogi, fixeth his attention on God's feet.

He who in the midst of desires is without desires, and who loveth the one God is a Sanyasi.

He who drinketh God's essence and preserveth a religious attitude in his own home shall obtain peace.

The mind of the pious man who knoweth God wavereth not, but restraineth its wanderings.

He who under the Guru's instruction searcheth the house of the body, shall obtain the boon of the Name.

Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiv are most exalted when they are imbued with the contemplation of the Name.

Thy light, O Lord, is in the sources of production, in compositions, in the firmament, in the lower regions, and in all creatures.

By repeating hymns containing God's true name and clasping it to the heart, all happiness and final deliverance shall be obtained.

No one can be saved without the Name; Nanak, that is the true way to swim across.

The following was delivered in a fit of extreme religious fervour to Mihan and Sihan:--

Woman, however many friends she may make, wandereth like an itinerant minstrel in transmigration.

She who is separated from God obtaineth no access to Him; how shall she be patient?

My soul is imbued with the love of the Beloved.

I am a sacrifice; I would cut myself in pieces for Thee look at me even for an instant with a glance of favour.

Separated as I am from my Beloved in my father's house, how shall I meet him in my father-in-law's?

I wear demerits round. my neck; I am ruined without the Beloved; I am pining to death.

If in my father's house I remember the Beloved, I shall find a dwelling in His.

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The wife who hath found her Beloved, the Lord of excellences, sleepeth in peace.

She maketh a silken coverlet and mattress for her couch, and arrayeth herself in a costly robe.

The wife whom her husband abandoneth passeth the night in grief.

Whatever dainties she tasteth and whatever dresses she weareth `

Her youth passeth in vain without her Beloved; she pineth away through separation from Him.

Hear the song of the True One under the Guru's instruction.

True is the throne of the True One; she on whom He looketh with favour loveth Him.