Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
Interpretation
Finding inner peace protects you from external fears, including the fear of death.
This quote by Guru Nanak emphasizes the importance of achieving a state of inner peace and self-awareness. By cultivating tranquility within ourselves, we can transcend fears and anxieties, such as the fear of death, allowing us to live more fully and authentically.
In practice
During a mindfulness workshop, I shared this quote to emphasize the importance of inner peace.
There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.
Speak only that which will bring you honor.
Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.
See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
My father would be very concerned about the environment. He'd be disappointed that we have hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions of people who are living out on the streets in the wealthiest nation on the planet. He'd be greatly disappointed because he would know that we can, and we must, do better.
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
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