The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“The longing, the wish of a real seeker of Truth it’s always that of annihilating himself in the flames of Naam, in the divine light of God. If you are on the Path, that’s what we are looking for. To become one with the Absolute, to become one with the source of life. And to become one with this infinite being, we must broaden our being. That means we have to expand our consciousness. And at the moment our consciousness is locked up in this cage of the human body, this physical form. So we want to transcend this physical consciousness and access the expanded consciousness. We can say the cosmic consciousness. It seems a big word, but that’s what we have to do. Of course, we can do it only by the grace of Satguru and Satpurush, the Supreme Being. But we have to make ourselves available, fully available. Therefore, when we sit in meditation, we try to sit with with a longing heart, and we pray to our Supreme Satguru to please be kind, and merciful. By myself, I don’t succeed — no way that I succeed, but I’m here at your feet. I’m here at your door, at this tenth door, so please bless me.”
“When you want to go to the Truth, the Truth will make you naked. You have to get rid of all of your concepts, all your ideas, all your beliefs. At least that’s what my experience is on the Path.”
“Once you experience that death doesn’t exist, the fear of death is gone forever. You may live and you may die, it doesn’t matter.”
“Once you experience that death doesn’t exist, the fear of death is gone forever. You may live and you may die, it doesn’t matter.”
“That’s what makes us complete human beings. Experiencing ourselves as having a body, experiencing ourselves as having a psyche, a mind, and experiencing ourselves as pure consciousness, completely free from body and mind.”
„Eventually everything turns into dust. From the dust he comes and to the dust he returns. That means from nowhere it comes and to Nowhere it returns. Because that’s our origin, the Nowhere it’s our Origin. The Nowhere, which is also everywhere. Paradox, a life it’s a paradox. Everything exists and doesn’t exist at the same time. Everything is real and it’s unreal at the same time. Whatever is there in time and space, the only thing which is always real, which always existed,exist now and ever will exist, is the Timeless, the Truth.”
„So this is the best advice you can give to anybody: realize yourself for what you are and then realize the Over Self, this is the purpose for which we come in this world .”
„I will say it about my Masters, there was nobody as good as they were to me, because they really taught me good things. So what do they teach me? They taught me to give priority above everything else to self realization and God realization.”
„And I will say, all the satsangis, the good satsangis, the real satsangis they will say the same: that there is no donor equal to the Guru in this world.”
“So thats the way. That’s the way to be a real good man
Somebody who sticks to his conventions to his main choices in life…. So let’s try to be stable people. People who make choices and stick to them till you die. We want to be rocks not dry leaves that are carried by any wind.”
“I am an honest person. I am somebody who clings to the precious things of life and to the relations in which I put myself. So when I choose somebody to be my Master he will be my Master forever. It doesn’t matter what happens it doesnt matter the tests, the difficulties, the problems. I have chosen this person as my master and he will be my Master forever.”
“When we have a real spiritual experience that deeply touches us in which we really see reality that means we really disengage ourselves from our body. That’s the time in which we really experience this incredible joy. The joy of understanding eventually what’s the purpose of life, what’s our purpose, who we are. What we are. Which is the goal. That’s what gives the real joy.”
“So when does a man really experience the real joy, the real happiness, the real fulfillment? When one transcends this physical body. That’s the only way, the only time in which we may experience that incredible joy of understanding eventually what we are.”
“When we sit in meditation, we are told to relax our body, give up any tension, and relax and be at peace. Then we are told that we have to still the mind. We have to silence the mind, which goes on all the time with his running commentaries about everything. And we have to activate our attention, our Surat, by well focusing it in the middle of what we see in front of our forehead. We have to forget everything where we are, our body and its activities, and withdraw, withdraw from everything. Practically, we shut the doors of sensory perception. Close our eyes, we don’t see. We try not to be disturbed by noises, so we try not to hear. We don’t speak. We don’t smell. We don’t taste, we don’t touch. These are how we connect with the outer world, so we shut them all down. But then it’s essential to be awake. Master Kirpal always said, to do your meditation when you are fully awake and conscious. This is a problem for most of the meditators. At some point, we may fall asleep. So we are not meditating. We are sleeping. So how to avoid it? There are helpful tips, and I give you some. You can move your head left, or right, or turn it clockwise, unclockwise. From time to time take a big breath. It’s like somebody shakes you. The other thing is the hands. Hands should never be together because if you keep them together, they become warm and induce sleep. So they are to be always separated, one on one leg, one on the other leg. They can be turned downwards or they can be turned upwards, better upwards. And if anyway you tend to fall asleep then you can just raise them. Don’t keep them on your body, on your legs, but raise them a bit. Another helpful tip is to keep your mouth open a little bit. Because you very well know, when you are looking at something which you really like, by which you are enchanted, your mouth opens naturally. So also when we meditate, it’s good to keep our mouth a bit open. So we need goodwill. We need to be acting. We have to find our way, whichever works better for us.”
“Starting the day with meditation sitting, with an act of devotion, that brings in love then that helps us tune in with Sadhguru power. It is the best way of starting our day. It is the way the seeker of truth should always, by any means, begin his day, her day. Because this will attract on us his blessing. It will protect us, will uplift our consciousness, and therefore, attract into our life, into the day that we are going to live the blessing, the grace, the support, and protection. So one of the purposes by which this is to be done is to attract his blessing, his protective shelter, his sharan, as they say in India. That will protect us from low energies that may complicate our lives. But if we have this shield around us, then those won’t bother us. Because our level of consciousness will be above it, will be uplifted. Therefore, we will invite you into your life, into our experience good vibes, and good energy. That will create good events, blessed events. So there are several reasons why we should start our day this way. The other reason is that we need, I mean, a real seeker of Truth, a real Satsangi will need to feel His presence because this is what makes our within beautiful, peaceful, and harmonious. This is what will inspire our mind with beautiful thoughts, inspired thoughts, and creative thoughts. Therefore, our choices in life will be of a higher kind. We’ll be inspired. Then there is also a sense of commitment, of duty. Because when we took initiation, we promised that we would meditate every day. That’s why we took initiation, because we want to follow the Path, and we want to get the benefit that the Path may grant us, provide us. So it’s a promise to God, the Master, and ourselves to live a certain lifestyle, and we do it because we are dignified people that stand by their own promises, their own choices in life.”
“So Master Kirpal used to say simple life and high thinking. Don’t want too much just be happy with what you have. It’s natural to try and improve our situation but we shouldn’t make it the goal of our life , the be all and end all of our life. We should just try to make nice and beautiful what we have. That’s the secret of manifesting the Divine in everything. We don’t need to change something.We need to keep it nice and beautiful. So we take care of ourselves of this body of this mind. Of our emotions. And we try to make our life beautiful. Not by acquiring again and again new things, but making beautiful what we have.”
“So try to understand what’s useful And what’s useless. What’s useful? Your peace of mind. Your inner satisfaction which comes from The Bliss which is already inside of you We are actually blissful beings. If we are deprived, separated from mind and thoughts. Which create emotions and sensations which give us troubles. Without this, we are just at peace.”
“It seems like a blasphemy to think that we are divine, that we are gods ourselves. But it is not because that’s what we are. We are all Divine in nature. Potential Divine beings. We come here to manifest fully this Divinity which is in us.”
“Maulana Rumi says, ” We have already been in heaven. So why don’t we go farther on? The Absolute, it’s our goal. So it’s important to understand what we are.What’s the purpose of life. What we are here for. We are here to become complete human beings. And a complete human beings it is a God in himself.”
“So in a way it’s a blessing to come in a physical body even if it
is troublesome. Master Kirpal often used to quote this sentence from the Quran thay says “When God made man he asked the angels to bow down to the human being.” Because it is said that it is only in this physical body and it is only as human beings. That we may realize the Supreme God. The Supreme Reality. It’s not given to the angels. It’s not given to the gods. They have to reincarnate in order to reach the absolute.”