{"quotes":[{"text":"All these stories of Janamsakhi were like an artistic instrument that was yielded more to spread Nanak’s spiritual sovereignty as a mystical prophet than as an effective teacher in flesh and blood. In the midst of ignorance and mystical craving, they provided a simple method to guide people, or rather allure them to a newly formed religious path by sermonizing through stories of mystical non-sense.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","guru-nanak","janamsakhi","mystical-powers","mystical-theology","mysticism","nanak","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","science","sikh","sikhism","sikhs","truth"],"id":7989,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.","author":"Guru Amar Das","tags":["anxiety","god","sikhism"],"id":17811,"author_id":"Guru+Amar+Das"},{"text":"All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["free-thinking","guru-nanak","india","nanak","philosophy","philosophy","religion","sikh","sikhism","sikhs","words-of-wisdom-on-friendship"],"id":55358,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"By forgetting the Supreme Lord, all the ailments cling to the man.","author":"Guru Arjan Dev","tags":["god","life","living","problems","religion","sikhism","struggle"],"id":63960,"author_id":"Guru+Arjan+Dev"},{"text":"Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.","author":"Guru Nanak","tags":["god","life","living","religion","sikh","sikhism"],"id":78390,"author_id":"Guru+Nanak"},{"text":"Your Mercy is my social status.","author":"Guru Nanak","tags":["god","religion","sikhism"],"id":144906,"author_id":"Guru+Nanak"},{"text":"What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement of 'you' is absent. The absence of this movement probably is the beyond, but the beyond can never be experienced by you; it is when the 'you' is not there. Why are you trying to experience a thing that cannot be experienced?","author":"U.G. Krishnamurti","tags":["buddhism","enlightenment","god","hinduism","inspirational","life","living","mind","moksha","nirvana","religion","sikhism","thoughts","zen"],"id":206196,"author_id":"U.G.+Krishnamurti"},{"text":"For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?","author":"Guru Nanak","tags":["fear","god","living","religion","sikhism"],"id":235495,"author_id":"Guru+Nanak"},{"text":"Nanak wanted to preach people that God loves both the Hindus and the Muslims the same way. Believing in his spiritual encounter, he wanted to eliminate the distance between the Hindus and the Muslims by teaching the words of equality and One God. But just like usual, he ended up forming yet another religion which became more and more hardcore with its own rituals and regulations in the hands of the subsequent nine Gurus.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","inspirational","philosophy-of-religion","religion","religion-and-philosophy","sikh","sikhism","sikhs","truth","truth"],"id":297875,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Sikhism emerged as a ray of hope for the people of India who were stuck in obscurity – who craved for a way out from the rigorous battle between Hindu and Muslim orthodoxy.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["hindu","hinduism","india","indian-culture","islam","muslim","orthodoxy","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","sikh","sikhism"],"id":304862,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}