Mind Sant Quotes

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

When we understand that Peace is a state of mind we understand true Peace.

When you deeply love someone from that space that is beyond attachment to certain projections or desires, when you love someone just deeply, totally, completely, without any games that the mind or emotions play, then that love remains eternal in the heavens forever, and that is what pulls you back to remembering that love.

Where ego comes in, loving kindness departs. So wherever there is ego, there is very little space for true bliss and true happiness because true bliss and true happiness isn't exclusive to the attachments the ego enjoys playing with, but rather a free state of mind that is part of loving kindness and its activities inside and outside of oneself.

Water has a natural tendency to flow downwards. Similarly, the mind also has a natural tendency to flow outwards, towards sense pleasures. It always cheats man and leads him to sensual indulgence and bad company, which ultimately precipitates his downfall. Apparently bad company may seem very attractive at first, but….  ‘Never, not even by mistake, should you fall for those pleasures that give rise to numberless sorrows.

Whenever an evil thought enters the mind, be alert and leave that place immediately. Go to some saattvik environment where you can meet a virtuous friend or saint.

As the moth falls into the lamp, as the thief steals without hesitation, as the elephant is trapped by its sexual urges, as the sinner is caught in his sins, as the gambler’s addiction does not leave him, so is this mind of Nanak’s attached to the Lord.  || 8 ||   As the deer loves the sound of the bell, and as the song-bird longs for the rain, the Lord’s humble servant lives in the Society of the Saints, lovingly meditating and vibrating upon the Lord of the Universe.

The Dark Age of Kali Yuga is the vessel, filled with the wine of sex; the mind is the drinker. Anger is the cup, filled with emotional attachment; egotism is the bartender. Drinking too much in the company of falsehood and greed, one is ruined.

The body is the bottle, self-conceit is the wine, and desire is the company of drinking buddies. The glass of the mind’s longing is filled to overflowing with falsehood; the Messenger of Death is the bartender. Drinking in this wine, O Nanak, one takes on countless vices and corruption. So make spiritual wisdom your molasses, and the Praise of God your bread; let the Fear of God be the dish of meat. O Nanak, this is the true food; let the True Name be your only Support.  || 2 ||   If the human body is the

One who keeps his mind in perfect control even in the most difficult circumstances and is not affected by anger or grief is a true Mahatma or a great soul.

O my mind, remember always the Dear Lord. At the very last moment, He alone shall be your best friend; He shall always stand by you. 

Make your mind the farmer, good deeds the farm, modesty the water, and your body the field. Let the Lord’s Name be the seed, contentment the plow, and your humble dress the fence.

If my body were to become the paper, O Beloved, and my mind the inkpot; and if my tongue became the pen, O Beloved, I would write, and contemplate, the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.

When the mind is conquered, its turbulent wanderings are stopped. Without conquering the mind, how can the Lord be found?