
The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“We human beings are quite convinced that we choose our life, we choose the course of our life, that we are the doers. There is so much talking about free will, no free will. Some are quite convinced that there is free will, and there are those who are convinced there is no free will. The truth is always between things. Sant Ji used to say: “If you look at the world and the life from this point of view, from down here then it seems like we have a free will that we choose, we decide. But if we withdraw from this physical consciousness and we rise above and we reach Sach Khand then from there we see that we have no free will whatsoever.” If you consider that there is no time that whatever was before and whatever is going to be it’s only a right now, then where there is any free will? It’s already happened, everything. So, from this condition, our level of consciousness seems that we can decide and choose things. So, from this condition, our level of consciousness seems that we can decide and choose things. And this illusion is left to us because it’s needed! It is needed because we need to choose to have this illusion that we choose to do certain experiences. After all, we need to grow through these experiences and learn a lesson. And by and by we acquire a certain wisdom by which our decisions, yes or no about any event of life will improve, will become wise, and more accurate.”
“We may have a peaceful mind and an agitated mind, full of worries, anxieties, fears. By it’s nature, the mind won’t get to peace, the mind likes worries, anxieties, fears. So, we have to make an effort in order to bring peace into our within. Therefore we have to direct our attention towards something that bring peace, love, well-being. So, if we direct our attention towards the thing we love, the Divine Being, which is beauty, love, peace, bliss then that’s the way of counteracting the action of the mind.”
“In Sach Khand there is no me nor you, there is no devotee, and there is no Beloved. There is only the One. A vast ocean of resplendent Light, that’s where we aim to, that’s where we want to go. The total freedom of the liberated souls. The freedom of being here, there and everywhere simultaneously. The feel of being above time and space. The freedom of being an individual I, but becoming a universal I or a cosmic I. So, where are we aiming to? Just to this, that’s where we are aiming to. So, every meditation sitting we do it is a brick that we add to this temple of the Supreme that we want to build for ourselves. And if we continue adding bricks like this then very high we will go. And this is where we will go when we leave this world, but we want to experience this before we leave this world. So, that this life also, in this physical body and in this physical world we will be saturated with His presence, so that we have a better quality life.”
“Strong determination is needed for a seeker after Truth to reach the vastity of Beyond Space, which is our kingdom, heredity and birthright. Just as the children of parents inherit the belonging of the parents in the same way, all humanity who are children of the same Supreme Being have the right to inherit this kingdom, the jewel of Divinity. It’s in our potential. We can do it, so let’s do it! We should not be happy just with an ordinary life. We should want an extraordinary life. And an extraordinary life is the life in which the Divine comes into play.”
“The ruling passion is what needed on the spiritual Path, which comes from yearning. You have to create the yearning then you will experience wonderful things. If you have it, you are lucky. If you don’t have it, then spend time with a Master, humbly listen to His words, looking to His eyes, meditate with Him and by and by, you will get there. This yearning will created inside of you. So, when this happens, then this will change the quality, the value and the intensity of your life. You wake up to the Divine Presence.”
“The real Master is not going to ask anything from us, doesn’t need anything from us. A real Master will only try to inspire us to find our peace, our contact with the Divine Light, which gives us complete joy and fulfillment. What does Master need from us? Just nothing! If it is a business to make money or a thirst for power, then it’s another situation. And there are many like this, I must say. Selfless Beings, selfless Masters are very rare.”
“A human being in a very human condition, how can he have any possible right path to follow? The path that ordinary human being follows is the path of the mind, the path of sensual gratification all the time. Difficult to find the inner way by ourselves. Only in very rare cases. But in 99 percent of the cases we need the support, the inspiration, the upliftment that comes in the company of the Master.”
“With outside objects and things, we will never find purpose for this life, no matter what we have. We may become the owner of the whole world, but we will never be satisfied. Therefore, Masters tell us not to think that, you will ever find fulfillment from the outer things. It has to come from inside. of you. That’s where you find real fulfillment. If you are able in silence to find your peace, to go within and experience the opening of the inner vision and coming in touch with the inner Light then you will find the real purpose of life. Then you will find the condition that makes you happy.”
“The journey that transforms us from human beings into Divine beings has to happen within ourselves. Once you have transformed within also the way you see the world and everything becomes transformed. It’s not the same anymore for you. So, the Earth becomes the purest gold, and even the Earth becomes Divine. It won’t matter anymore even the matter will be energy for you because that’s what in reality is. We see it as being solid material, like this body of ours. We see and perceive it to be a solid something. But it’s not, we know it very well. We are made of atoms and atoms are made of particles. And particles are light and energy. So, we are all energy. We are floating in a sea of energy, but we are confined physically in this physical perception, in this body and in this material level. That’s why we perceive it as such.”
“We should always be positive and optimistic that we will get to Him. And we should never doubt it because this attitude is important. When I met Master Kirpal that was my absolute conviction that I will never leave the Path, that I will never betray my Master and that I will realize the goal of this Path in this lifetime. So, this attitude is helpful and important. Maybe not everybody will be able to realize the Absolute Reality in this lifetime, but we should all try to get as close as possible to it. And try to live a lifestyle which makes it possible. Therefore we should take the Path as the main purpose of life. We should do our best to be a good example for others also. That is how a Satsangi should be. Helping by setting a good example for each other. Everyone should try His/Her best to be as good as possible, as compassionate as possible, helpful.”
“The Path of Master must become our Path at some point. It is our story, the story of our life. And we should just as we give importance to the needs of our family in the same way we should give the same attention, love, and dedication to the Path of the Master, that is our Path. So, it’s a love affair. It’s the story of our life when we get into it. But it gives such greatness to our life. It makes it fulfilling because then we will experience life in all possible aspects. Physically, mentally and spiritually. Unless we explore the spiritual dimension, we don’t know anything about life. So, exploring the spiritual dimension is what makes us complete human beings who know the whole spectrum of existence. And when we love so much of your doing, the Path and the Master then the spiritual practice it’s a pleasure. We don’t feel it as a duty, but it’s a pleasure, which is different. Because I want to know what’s it all about. And I’m not just happy hearing it from somebody else, I want to make it on my own.”
“Let’s make our life wonderful and special. Let’s not be happy with a common ordinary life. Is not why we came here, it’s not the purpose of life. We are here to become Gods, all of us. So let’s try. Maybe we won’t succeed fully, but we get close to it. It’s a way that we have to cover sooner or later. So, the more we cover in this very lifetime of this Path to God, the better it is for us and the higher we will go when we leave this world.”
“If we get out of the clouds of our consciousness and of this limited person that we think we are that make us believe that we are just nothing, then we experience that we are not an individual I, but we are universal I, we are God Himself. And it’s not an exaggeration. Because what is God? God is the sum up of all the living beings. We are all part of it, and He is us. So, if you get out of this wrong idea of being a limited and individual I, then we become a universal I. And that is beautiful, it’s keeps value to life, it makes it precious. It’s a wonderful thing to go through life with another level of consciousness, relating life in a different way with awareness of what’s all about.”
“In the process of spiritual growth in the beginning, we work on it for ourselves, but later on, if we improve in it and if we come experts in it, then the Divine Power will put us in situations by which we will be by any means compelled to help other people. It is normal. You are a boy, grow up, become a man, get married, have children. Before you were a boy, your parents were taking care of you, giving you what you needed. Now you become a man, have children, you take care of them. So, if we become real spiritual men, then God will use us to inspire and help others because that is the process. You can not keep anything for yourselves. Nothing belongs to us. Whatever is given to us is to be used for the betterment of humanity.”
“If you die out of love for God, then you go to God. If you die out of love for the world, then you go back again to the world. Because as you thing, so you become. And where your heart is attached to, that’s where you go. So, those who come on the Path and try to develop any degree of love for God and passion for a transcendence and going Beyond, they are so lucky. We don’t know how lucky we are! But that’s the most precious things what we can do in our life, it is the most important thing that we can do and accomplish while living in this body and in this world. And the purpose of which we come in this body and this world it is to develop while we are here in this world this love for God and experience as much as we can conscious contact with the Divinity and with the Divine Light of God. So, the spiritual practice that we do is so important. And the more we do of it, the more love, passion and attachment will develop for our Beloved. And that will be our treasure when we leave this world, because we can take nothing from this world with us. The only thing we can take with us it’s the love of God, which we have developed.”
“Morning and evening, sunrise and sunsets they are the most auspicious moments to sit in the sweet remembrance of God. These are the moments in which the extemes and opposites meet. And when the opposites meet, it’s always a great time. Therefore there is a peculiar kind of energy in the air, which is more conducive for meditation. And all the great lovers of God they always spent time in His sweet remembrance at this time.”
“In a spiritual life, discipline is the most important factor. Without discipline, you can nowhere. A spiritual person is a disciplined person. So, what does it mean to be disciplined? It means to have a certain lifestyle and stick to it.”
“The best service we can do for the human kind is raising the frequency and the level of consciousness of this planet. A level of consciousness generates certain kind of thoughts, feelings and emotions, and the higher is the frequency, the more loving thoughts we will have, the more good we will be. And that is how things get better. People who do meditation they do not just benefit themselves, but they benefit the whole planet, the whole universe. So, we don’t just meditate for ourselves, the act of meditation is service.”
“We didn’t make this world and this Humanity. It’s God who has made all of this. And we are all the children of the same Supreme Power. So, we are all a family. Let’s try to understand this. Let’s try to grow into this awareness.”
“Nobody can give us what a Master can give us because even the best wishers, those who love us the most, they may give us what? Love, affection, protection, money, security. But always on this physical plane always, things related to this body. But we go to the Guru to have something else, something which is untouchable, which you can not hold in your hands, although it comes in your hands also. Something, which is transcendental, which goes beyond body, mind and senses. And that is the Shabd, the Divine Light of God. That is what the Masters put us in touch with. So, that’s the most precious something we may get from anybody. That’s why there is no donor equal to the Guru as Kabir Sahib also says.”