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.
I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.
It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.
To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run into trouble. Do not do what is good in order to gain praise. If you do what is bad be sure to avoid the punishment. Follow the Middle Course, for this is the way to keep yourself together, to sustain your life, to care for your parents and to live for many years.
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.
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