Guru Nanak Quotes
There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.
Nanak, Guru. Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Translated by Sant Singh Khalsa, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, 1999, p. 5.
Referring to Woodrow Wilson and his 14 points he insisted upon for the World War I peace treaty.
Spinoza was by no means an atheist. He was a very orthodox Jew. However his conception of God, while much in the mainstream of modern thought was incomprehensible to the religious authorities of the day. Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared that is by the established power structures. He is the only known person who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims. He was the enemy of authority and advocated personal reason as the guide for men.
Gurū Nānak, also referred to as Bābā Nānak ('father Nānak'), was the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Katak Pooranmashi ('full-moon of Kattak'), i.e. October–November.
