What is the use of bathing at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, when the filth of stubborn pride is within the mind? (Guru Granth Sahib, 60)

Pilgrimages, fasts, purification and self-discipline are of no use, nor are rituals, religious ceremonies or empty worship. O Nanak, emancipation comes only by loving devotional worship; through duality, people are engrossed in duality. (Guru Granth Sahib, 75)

Filth does not stick to those who are true, but filth attaches itself to those who love duality. This filth cannot be washed off, even by bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage. The self-willed manmukh does deeds in egotism; he earns only pain and more pain. Nanak says, the filthy ones become clean only when they meet and surrender to the True Guru. (Guru Granth Sahib, 87)

I meditate on God within my mind. This is my cleansing bath at all the sacred shrines of pilgrimage. (Guru Granth Sahib, 195)

Even if one takes cleansing baths at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage, and wanders over the whole planet, and performs all the rituals of purification day and night, still, without the True Guru, darkness still prevails. (Guru Granth Sahib, 495)

Why should I bathe at sacred shrines of pilgrimage? The Name of God, is the sacred shrine of pilgrimage. Contemplation on the shabad gives me spiritual wisdom and is my sacred shrine of pilgrimage. (Guru Granth Sahib, 687)

I do not go to see sacred shrines of pilgrimage, or bathe in the sacred waters; I do not bother any beings or creatures. The Guru has shown me the sixty-eight places of pilgrimage within my own heart, where I now take my cleansing bath. (Guru Granth Sahib, 972)

Someone may go to the Ganges or the Godaavari, or to the Kumbha festival, or bathe at Kaydaar Naath, or make donations of thousands of cows at Gomti; he may make millions of pilgrimages to sacred shrines, or freeze his body in the Himalayas; still, none of these is equal to the worship of the Name of God. Someone may give away horses and elephants, women, or land; he may give such gifts over and over again. He may purify his soul, and give away in charity his body weight in gold; none of these is equal to the worship of the Name of God. (Guru Granth Sahib, 973)

He alone is a pilgrim, who purifies his heart. He alone is a Mullah, who banishes evil; he alone is a saintly dervish, who takes the support of God and praises Him. (Guru Granth Sahib, 1083)

I do not make pilgrimages to Mecca, nor do I worship at Hindu sacred shrines. I serve the One Lord, and not any other. I do not perform Hindu worship services, nor do I recite Muslim prayers. I have taken the One Formless Lord into my heart; I humbly worship Him there. (Guru Granth Sahib, 1136)

Pilgrimages to the Ganges, the Gaya and the Godawari are merely worldly affairs. (Guru Granth Sahib, 1195)

The Muslims set aside eleven months, and claim that the treasure is only in the one month. What is the use of bathing at Orissa? Why do the Muslims bow their heads in the mosque? If someone has deception in his heart, what good is it for him to utter prayers? And what good is it for him to go on pilgrimage to Mecca? (Guru Granth Sahib, 1349)

Kabeer, I was going on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and God met me on the way. He scolded me and asked, "Who told you that I am only there?" (Guru Granth Sahib, 1375)