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.
The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.
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