Quotes Collection

“The greatest gift that one may have in life is coming in touch with what is transcendental, what transcends body and mind. Then our life will take a different turn; we will be led to have experiences which will take us gradually to become complete human beings. People who know what this life is all about, what the purpose of life is, why we come here, and what the potential of us human beings is.”

“Learn to die so that you may begin to live. It means learning to transcend this physical body while you are alive, because then you will really begin to live. Your perception of reality will become so widened that it becomes intense, and then you will know what life is. Before that, you will understand that you were really like a corpse, half alive, half dead. So, the main purpose of human beings living in this world is just this: learning how to die while alive.”

“The Guru is the best giver in this world because he gives us what is invisible. And what is invisible? Consciousness. So, what is the purpose of a spiritual master? He tries to give a spiritual transmission to those who relate to him—to make them spiritually alive. Because we are all spiritually dead. We think we are alive because we breathe and think, but that is nothing compared to what life may really be. And one really begins to live when they are awakened spiritually.”

“If we don’t discover what consciousness is, which is our real self, what we really are, then we are missing the whole point of this life. We just came here for nothing. Any pleasure we might enjoy through the body and mind is nothing compared to the pleasure or the inner gratification that we get when we come in touch with the Divine Power. A mystical experience is superior to any other kind of experience that we may have.”

“Masters always tell us that what is temporary – what comes and goes – is unreal because what’s temporary is happening in the realm of time. And time itself is an illusion, which is a reality on a certain level of existence, like the physical plane. But on some other level of existence, time does not exist as a sequence of events. And what is real is the eternal, what’s beyond time and space. And Satguru, through which the supreme Satguru, that is Satpurush or the supreme being, the true being, it’s real because he’s beyond time. So we should live such a life with this awareness that all that’s happening on this plane of duality does not belong to us. We shouldn’t cling to it because now is there and later won’t be there anymore. And we should cling to the eternal, which is the supreme truth. So we should avoid getting stuck, attached in the realm of duality, and always point our attention towards what’s beyond duality. The eternal, the infinite, the supreme reality.”

“This is a world in which every joy is followed by a sorrow, every up is followed by a down, every victory is followed by a defeat, because this is the world of duality. And here we have to go from one side to the other all the time. So the wise people, at some point they get fed up with this crooked and cruel play and want to get out of it, achieve a condition of permanent peace. So, we do this when we get out of this play by giving up all that binds us to it. What is it that binds us mostly to this play? It is desire. As you think, so you become. And everything you want, you will have to get, and then you will repent. But then you will want something else, you will get it, and then you will repent. So, get out of this play. Stop wishing for more, just be happy with what’s needed. All the rest are chains that bind us to this physical world.”

“The Divine manifestation is a very powerful event. It’s a very powerful experience. And in order to inhold it in the same way, we need to be very powerful, very strong, and very intense. We don’t throw ourselves into a big flame; otherwise, we would burn. We have to get used to it by and by. Then there are people who can throw themselves into a flame and not burn. There are people who can walk on coals and not burn their feet, because they have been training themselves. The same is with the mystical path. The same is with to coming in touch with the Divine Power. It’s a very powerful energy. Master Kirpal used to say, “It’s much stronger than electricity.” We know that if we touch an electric cable, we will burn ourselves. So by and by, we have to get used to this intensity of the Divine Power. And the way to get used to it is to develop an incredible love for this Divine Power, for the Divine Light. So, all the practice that we do following the path aims to make us ready for this capacity of inholding the Divine Power.”

“Reduce the worldly involvement to the needed and try to find your joy, your peace, your bliss, in the spiritual practice.”

“So don’t be the cause of your own misery, be the cause of your own greatness.”

“We are the problem and we are the solution to our problem. And we solve our problem, with a sharp, focused attention.”

“So, now we are here for a meditation sitting in which we should not allow thoughts to come and disturb us. At least here, when we are sitting with our closed eyes, dedicating full attention and full time to the purpose of union. We have to try to saturate our minds with the repetition of Simran, doing it with longing, yearning, love, and devotion.”

“Honor your life, honor your person, and make meaningful this passage through this life by making it intense as far as love, compassion, mercy, and beauty are concerned.”

“It’s not wealth and power that make us great human beings. It is the intensity with which we do anything, small and big.”

“So we shouldn’t be content with just a common, ordinary, meaningless life that most people have in this world. We are just running after a few pleasures, a few belongings, sensations, and emotions. We should seek deep peace, deep understanding, and the totality of Reality, to make our life meaningful, special, and great. You find so many ordinary people in this world, but very few special ones.”

“Each one of us has their own potential. Each one of us is made the way they are made. It cannot be any different. But we can improve ourselves, definitely. And the best way of improving ourselves is spending time with people who have dedicated their lives to seeking Truth, seeking Reality, and trying to become a personification and a mouthpiece of this Truth and Reality.”

“We should not keep complaining about what we don’t get. We should just keep remembering and being grateful for what we get.”

“On the spiritual path, developing an intense and immense love for God and for our Sadguru is the most important aspect. This is what makes the path fulfilling and successful. This is what makes the path a joy, a pleasure. Love is what gives sweetness to anything we do on the spiritual path. With love, everything is impossible. Without love, nothing is possible. So if we have the good luck of meeting a Master, then we should try to get the benefit of such a meeting. And we can only get the benefit if we are fully open, present and available. If we are at such a meeting with our body and our mind is elsewhere, if we are closed up into our narrow mind, into our dark side, and do not open up to the Light, then we will stay in darkness. We build it for ourselves. So, when we are doing something, let’s do it wholeheartedly, with all our being, fully present, fully attentive, like standing on the tips of our feet. Because only this way can something meaningful happen. Life is meaningful, it’s beautiful, if we embrace it wholeheartedly, anything we do. But especially when we are in such a meeting, when we are in such a blessed, uplifting atmosphere.”

“No one may say that one catches God and holds Him. Because it is a being that is absolutely free and unpredictable. So if today somehow we catch hold of Him and we think it’s because of our skill or our capacity, then tomorrow approaching Him will be a great dilemma. So sometimes we find a way to manifest the Light, to go deep within, and we think that it will always work. But next time we try it won’t be the same, and after some time it won’t work anymore. Because the spiritual path is an ongoing process that is never going to externate in any form. You always have to find ways to manifest the Light. Sometimes it works to be well-focused in the center, sometimes it works just by repeating the Simran, and sometimes we sing a bhajan and find ourselves flooded with His presence. So there are several ways in which the grace may be manifested. But it’s a changing process. Today like this, tomorrow different. So it’s a continuous discovery. It’s a continuous exposing oneself with all sincerity and devotion. And let the Divine power work its way. From our side, we just have to be available and let it be. Don’t be morbid, just let it be. But that of exposing ourselves by sitting and trying our best, that we always have to do.”

“Sometimes people would show photos to Master Kirpal, saying, “Look, Master, it’s you!” And he would look at the photo and say, “This is not me. This is my body. It’s not me.” So, we have to acquire the awareness that this body is a dwelling—a dress in which we live for a certain period. We are not this body; we are consciousness.”

“We don’t recognise what is given to us, we just mind and complain about what is missing. So gratitude is very important. Because there are such situations in this world, in which our life, compared to that, is like heaven.”