Quotes Collection

“Master Kirpal used to say Surat is a faculty of the soul, not of the mind. The mind works in us through thoughts. The soul works in us through attention. And it is this attention that gives meaning, and purpose to everything. Everything we do, if we are attentive and well-focused on what we are doing, gives us pleasure. Anything we do without attention, doesn’t give us any pleasure. It doesn’t mean anything. We are not even aware that it’s happening, because we are somewhere else with our thoughts. So especially when we sit in meditation, we should be fully in Surat, well focused in the eye center, and steadily keep looking in the middle of what we see. As far as we are busy looking, we don’t think. If you stop looking, then we begin thinking.”

“We are nothing yet inside of us we have this spark of infinite Divinity. That’s the paradox of existence. In the tiniest particle, you find the infinite. But it’s not enough to realize this intellectually or scientifically even with scientific proofs that it is like this. Nowadays, there is scientific evidence that this is the reality. This means there is no reality. It’s all a dream. It’s all a fantasy. It’s all imagination. We imagine to exist, but we don’t exist at all. So become this nothing. That’s the old process of getting rid of all the troubles and headaches of existence. Since we are convinced to be so much, then it’s very difficult to become nothing. That is what we really are. But if you become nothing, then we become everything. It seems absurd, but life is absurd. But as I said, it’s not enough to come to realize this intellectually, even scientifically. It has to be an inner experience of ours. Then it becomes really a fact for us. We witness with our inner eyes, with our inner perception. So that’s why in meditation we try to focus on just one point, one single spot. Because we want to go back to the One. So one spot, which is one center. So it’s called a single eye because the reality you don’t see with two eyes. You see it with just one eye because the reality is one. So it’s not the outer eyes I can see the reality. This is the inner eye that sees the reality.”

“We people have so many addictions, dependencies, and bondages. We have the mental dependencies. We have physical dependencies and emotional dependencies. And as far as you don’t find something better, something superior in life, which is above all these, we are not able to free ourselves from them. Most of us don’t even realize that we are so much bound, by so many conditions. But when we begin doing our introspection work and we begin doing our meditation and raise above a little bit the human condition we become aware of all these dependencies, all these conditionings. So as we become aware of them by and by, we get also rid of them. When people say I’m a free man, it means that I got rid of all this. And I am a free man in the sense that I’m ready, capable of welcoming life the way it is, the way it comes without any preconception. Without wanting that it should be different. It’s fine the way it is, and I love it the way it is. That’s freedom! Of course, one can say these, when he or she gets rid of all these fears, all these clingings, all these conditioning. So meditation on the Light and Sound makes us aware of all this. Raising above all these, we can see everything very clearly. And all these chains, all these bondages, they automatically fall away. And the only bond that breaks all these chains is devotion to the One, to the Absolute, the Eternal.”

“We got to a retreat in order to get out of this daily routine, which somehow clouds our consciousness because we have to be aware that spiritual life is not that you reach a certain stage and it is done. It doesn’t exist this way, it doesn’t happen this way. It’s something that needs to be renewed all the time, until the last day of our life. Nobody can say I’ve reached a certain stage and this stage will stay with me forever. I don’t need to do anything anymore. I can stop meditating. I can live off all possible practices. This now will stay with me forever. It doesn’t exist. If anybody asserts that this is possible, then this person is lying to you.”

“The Path is a Path of love, which we may treat and may go through only if you can develop a very intense love for our Supreme Lord, our Supreme God, and our Sadguru. There is no other way to go through the Path. It won’t be the knowledge, it won’t be the discrimination, it won’t be the scientific research of reality, or the logic or the reason that will take us there. It’s only if we have the good luck of being flared up by the love of God, that it becomes like a consuming fire that we can go all the way on the Path. So when we are caught by a powerful wave of love, of devotion, then we may make this leap, this jump, and go out of this our ordinary, human condition, and step into a Divine inner state. Saturated with His presence, with His incredible love, with His bliss, with His ecstasy, with all the goodness that comes, and we are in touch with this all-pervading power. All the other factors of the Path may be important, but this is the real fundament, it’s the building factor. It is the fuel that gives us the power, the energy, the strength to fly out of this human condition.”

“Either we take control over our thoughts, over our attention and move it the way we want, the direction we want, we become the master of it, the mind, the thoughts, our axieties, the worries, memories, fantasies, take control over us and lead us where they want. So the point is here, be the master of yourself, don’t let your emotion, your thoughts, your fantasies, your memories lead you wherever they want. You lead them, you lead your attention, where you want. Then you’re free. Otherwise you’re a slave of yourself.”

“What everybody wants to achieve on a spiritual path is to have a constant, continuous presence of the Divine within. Because when we experience this Divine presence, this Divine state of consciousness, we naturally will always like to be there. You will never like to go back to the ordinary state of consciousness because it is so miserable in comparison. But this is not easy. This is the most difficult thing in the Universe. Because as far as we are in a physical body, the consciousness tends to go back again and again to this physical level. It is a sort of inner force of gravity that drags everything down back again to the Earth. But this force of gravity has a certain extension. And once we go beyond that extension, then it no longer has an effect. But very few lucky people ever get to reach so high. So for most people, while we are in this physical body, even if we have wonderful spiritual experiences, then by any means, the consciousness will return to the physical level. So this is the struggle, trying to get back as close as possible to that Divine condition. And for this, we have to do lots of spiritual practice. It needed so much patience, so much insistence, and perseverance. The fact is that when we have experienced a state of that kind, life in this world and this body will not be appealing anymore. So this is the dynamic and torment of the spiritual life, of the spiritual transformation. But it is meant to be like this. That’s how it works.”

“Love and devotion are very important factors on this spiritual path. They make everything easy. If these two elements are present in our relationship with our Master and in treating the Path, then everything is so much easier. If they are absent, then everything becomes much more difficult.”

“A good way to begin our meditation is by praying to our Lord, to the one we choose as our Divinity, to manifest His Light in us, within us, and to allow us to melt into Him, disappear into Him, and lose any trace of our individual self.”

“Whether we believe it or not or have experienced it or not, prayer has great power. It moves reality. It changes reality. Because even scientifically, the act of wanting something or asking something from the universe, from reality, changes the movement of the tiny particles of matter. So we can influence reality. Of course, the strength and the will to do so is also a gift from Him. Otherwise, it will never even cross our mind. But if you’re lucky enough to have this grace of wanting with determination to move in a certain direction. We ask for the help of the Supreme Being of the universe to come to our rescue. And if you keep asking for it, it doesn’t mean that it happens right away. Sometimes it does. Most of the time, we have to wait sometimes, sometimes months, sometimes years. It depends on the nature of our request. And it depends on when it is the best time for it to happen. This, we don’t know. The Supreme Intelligence knows much better. But when we ask for something, definitely, sooner or later, it happens. In the case of my life, I can say that anything I’ve asked sincerely, has happened, everything, and keeps happening. So it’s for all of us. We all can influence our reality by a conscious request. Of course, the request should be for a spiritual purpose. But sometimes we are human beings, and we can also ask for other things that are reasonable. So nothing that we do spiritually goes wasted. Sooner or later, we will have an answer. There might be certain cases in which our request doesn’t meet with the will of the Supreme Being, then it doesn’t happen. The will and plane of the Supreme Being are different. And we might be amazed by it, but this Supreme Being knows all of our thoughts, all of our wishes, the tiniest, whatever crosses our mind. And knows very well what is good to happen or what is not good to happen. We don’t see this at work all the time, but in very special moments when something very peculiar happens, then we see that it was exact to the second. That this intervention from high above is always perfect and exact.”

“A seeker after Truth should keep walking toward His/Her destination by living the lifestyle the Path teaches. And by trying not to think of anything but of the One who has created the thoughts, which means the Simran, which means the names of God, that is God. This way, without too many suppositions, opinions, fears, or doubts, we get to the goal without many troubles.”

“We have to decide what we want from life, which we want to be our Supreme passion. We might have many cravings for the world or a supreme passion for God. When I say God, I don’t mean someone up there who ministates, and governs the Universe and the Creation. I mean a state of consciousness in which there is absolute Truth, absolute Reality. Free from any shadow, free from any darkness and duality. So, consciousness may dwell in so many stages, so many planes. The level of consciousness we are in is what pushes us into doing anything we do and any choice we make in life. So, if you want to make an excellent choice of realizing the Supreme Truth we have to raise our level of consciousness through meditation.”

“That’s what happens to those that keep persisting, persevering on the Path. They go back to the Primal Being. They go back to the Region of Truth. And they become clear like the clear, blue sky.”

“We are nothing, but inside us, we have this spark of the infinite of Divinity. That’s the paradox of existence. That is the most tiny particle you find in the infinite. But it’s not enough to realize intellectually or scientifically. Even with scientific proofs that it is like this. Nowadays, there is scientific evidence that this is the reality. This means there is no reality. It’s all a dream. It’s all a fantasy. It’s all imagination. We imagine to exist, but we don’t exist at all. So become this nothing. That’s the process of getting rid of all the troubles and headaches of existence. Since we are convinced to be so much, then it’s very difficult to become nothing. That is what we really are. But if you become nothing, then we become everything. It seems absurd, but life is absurd. But as I said, it’s not enough to come to realize this intellectually, even scientifically. It has to be an inner experience of ours. Then it becomes really a fact for us. We witness with our inner eyes, with our inner perception. So that’s why in meditation, we try to focus on just one point, one single spot. Because we want to go back to the One. So one spot, which is just in the center. So it’s called a Single Eye because the reality you don’t see with two eyes. You see it with just one eye because the reality is One.”

“When we meet the Master and we meditate with him that’s the best time to take the chance and try to go as close as possible to the Primal Source from which we all emanated at some point, and to which we all have to return. And this going back it’s within us. The journey, Sant Ajaib Singh Ji used to say, starts from the toes of your feet and goes up to the top of your head. Journey’s inside. It’s inside of us. We have to transcend what is this physical consciousness and try to go within the spiritual consciousness. And the gate through which we pass is in the middle of our forehead.”

“There are so many metaphors about the transformation of the self. The drop of rain falls into a shell, stays in the deepness of the ocean, and gradually it is transforming into a pear. Rubies, by opening to the influx of the sun rays, become this beautiful red that they have. The common human being, by staying in the company of a holy man gradually transforms into a Holy man. Whatever you want to become in life, keep the company of those people, and have developed the same qualities, and attributes. If you want to become a religious fanatic, go spend time with religious fanatics, and that’s what you will become. If you want to become a free man, an open-minded man, a human being who is capable of welcoming all the possible differences of life with an open mind then go spend time with free-minded people. If you want to become a meditator, go spend time with meditators.”

“If we have peace inside ourselves, we will also attract peace outside ourselves. And even if we find ourselves in difficult situations, we will be able to keep our equipoise, our balance, be peaceful, and not respond to the difficult situations. So if you want your life to become a heaven, then try to manifest heaven within yourself. If you want peace in your life, make your mind peaceful. To make your mind peaceful you have to sit down in meditation, activate the attention, and smooth down the thinking of the mind.”

“In whose hands do we want to be? By whom and by what do we want our lives to be moved? We want to be instruments and tools in the hands of the Supreme Divinity, the Supreme Satguru. So, we should try to be distributors of His nourishment, which is Light and Love, and share it with True Lovers. That is what we should do if we wish to live a good life: to do good, be good, and be one.”

“When you go very deep into the repetition of the simran. You will understand and you will experience, that the simran are not just words, but every word it’s a level of consciousness. It’s a condensed energy, which has its own peculiarity, each one of the words. So difficult to believe this, but if you go very deep into the constant repetition you will experience it by yourself.”

“So at first we have a blessing, lets say normally it goes like this. when one comes on a spiritual Path, there is an encouragement that comes as a blessing from God. If God wants to keep you on the path, if it is your time to experience something transcendental. Then God will give you a blessing by giving you an experience.”