Quotes Collection

“Mantra is a helping factor in stilling the mind and focusing the attention. So mantra is/are words of God, names of God and repeating them is like attracting the blessing, the grace of God. So repeating a mantra is like calling on somebody, since these are names of God. So if you repeat these names you are calling this God. Calling to yourself attracting his blessing into your life, into your experience. So that’s the purpose of a mantra.”

“Courage, optimism, and trust will pave our road and be a shelter for our life.”

“We don’t have to wait to leave this world to go into the peace, into the love and beauty of the Divine. We should try to live such a life in which already here in this world we are able to bring into our life this love, this joy, and this peace. So, that’s why seekers of Truth come on the spiritual Path and learn how to do a spiritual practice. So, they may experience while alive, some of that peace, which belongs to the Beyond.”

“You (Baba Sawan singh) said we should pray for truth, so we pray to you for truth. Please allow to us, to realize truth in this very lifetime. Give us the strength to work hard for it. Give us the will. Give us the capacity to sit for long hours of meditation, please allow it. We are poor human beings, we are so limited, the mind is so strong and so powerful. And we are under his control, the mind is carried away by the senses and the senses follow the impulses it get that it receives. And we who are this atama, this surat, this soul, we are dragged like anything by our mind. Which in turn is dragged like anything by the senses. So this human condition is not an easy one, it’s complicated, it’s quite complex. By our own efforts, by our own potential we will never succeed, we are very aware of it. We don’t have the strength, we don’t have the endurance, the perseverance. So please give all of this to us, and more over in spite of ourselves, in spite of our limits, in spite of our wantings or cravings or desires. Make it such that we may realize this truth about which you talk so highly in this song of yours. We are your children, we are your devotees, so don’t make it such that, do not allow that our life passes away without realizing this truth. Send your blessings, send your grace, shower us with grace, shower us with bliss.”

“(Truth) Where do we have to look for it? It’s hidden inside us and it’s very deep down, into the very essence of our being. So we have to reach there. So how do we reach there? We reach there by going within, by doing a spiritual practice, by doing an intense spiritual practice. It’s not just by doing an hour of meditation per day, that’s enough to keep going on, without losing the track. Without losing the path, without getting lost in the world. An hour of meditation per day is just enough to allow us to keep alive, but if we want to really find the truth. Then we have to go through very intense meditation periods. It might be meditation retreats, a bit by ourselves on our own or in the company of the master or the company of other satsangis. But if we want to realize this truth, we have to do alot of meditation. Keep it in mind it doesn’t just come by the way, it’s a very precious something. As we said in the beginning, it is the most precious thing the whole universe. So we really have to seek for it with a sincere, an incredibly sincere heart. An incredibly sincere intention, the intention is the most important thing in life.”

“We have by any means to realize in this lifetime complete union with that spring of Divine Light that springs from the region of Truth. Having this determination is so very important on the spiritual path. Having this self-assurance that I will make it in this lifetime, I will reach there in this lifetime. Because if we convince ourselves that, I will not make it, I’m not able, I won’t succeed then there is no way for us to move on. So it’s very important to have this convention, so why not? I can make it. If other people have been able to, why shouldn’t I be? This was always my attitude on the Path. This full convention right from the beginning I will make it. So I will succeed. And it’s worthwhile anyway, even if you don’t succeed eventually. We get close there, but we don’t get fully there. It’s fine anyway. No problem. But having this enthusiasm, this self-assurance that I’m capable. I’m not a wrecked somebody. I’m incapable. I have all the potential and I can do it. This doesn’t mean that we have to behave arrogantly. No. That’s not the point. We have to be very humble. But have this self-value and self-esteem of ourselves. We don’t miss anything. We are full human beings, and any human being can do it.”

“From this body, we have to learn how to withdraw from it. By flying on the wings of the Light, we can return to the true region or the region of Truth. That’s what Sach Khand means – the region of truth, the plane of truth – where truth prevails, and there is no trace of falsehood or darkness. When we leave this body, this is what happens: we fly at the speed of Light out of this body, and we merge with the Light. This Light may take up the shape or form of a Master, or somebody according to our mental makeup, according to our belief system. But if we don’t have a belief system, if you are just open to welcome whatever comes in whichever way it comes, then it’s just Light, formless Light, which might take endless forms, free of manifesting to us without an imprint which may give to this Light.”

“When we sing the Bhajans, the mind becomes quiet, becomes more peaceful. It creates a kind of atmosphere that helps [us] withdraw completely from the outside and go deeply within. Then we have to keep focusing our glance to open the horizon, which means to open the inner vision. So then we have to push ourselves farther on beyond this body, beyond this mind, to discover what truth is. And then, out of us will be left joy and weeping, which will be given to us as a gift for daring to go beyond, to push ourselves farther on, beyond this body, beyond this mind, to discover what reality is.”

“We’re so stuck in this outer world, in the situations of life, into all those things that attract our attention, our interest, those things that form our life. Unless we free ourselves from all these, or at least beginning from some of these, we won’t be able to move forward spiritually. Because we have a certain field of action and we human beings can have certain things, a certain amount of things, kind of more. We have a certain given time. And either we use this time for doing certain things or we do others. So if we want to do spiritual practice and consequently evolve spiritually, then we will have to give up some of the involvement with the world with the senses, and the activities that common human beings normally have. We will have to dedicate time to spiritual practice to expand our consciousness, uplift our consciousness, and experience something, different, something which may give much more of a meaning to our life.”

“We may be addicted or dependent on substances. We can be slaves of the five decoits as Sant Ajaib Singh used to say, which are lust, anger, greed, attachment, and egoism. We can add jealousy, vanity, hate, and so on. Or we can try to develop dependence or an addiction to the Divine Light. So as the person who is addicted to something, is all the time thinking about his addiction and waiting for it. So the devotee of the Light should be, all the time, thinking about what I’m going to see in the meditation and enjoying the inner bliss that comes from the Divine Light. So once we develop this kind of love, passion, and longing for communion with the Divine, then we are free from any bonds, from any dependence. Love and devotion for the Divine, which we don’t have to buy, which we don’t have to find elsewhere, but within us, it is such a freedom. Because you can just be blissful and ecstatic with yourself. You don’t need anything else coming from outside. You can well be alone and still be happy and blissful. So this is Supreme Freedom. This is Moksha. This is liberation. So we should try to develop this kind of love for the Divine, which means we don’t need anything else. It’s just happy with ourself and with our Beloved within us, and it’s always there, never going away.”

“God is within you. You can find Him just inside of you. In the very center of your being, there is this shining light, this diamond that is the divinity. And you will only find it truly there.”

“We have to go from me, I, my ego, my person to God, to the Universe, to all creation, and expand. And not just as an idea, but with facts. That’s why Seva is so much praised and talked about on the Path: when we do something selflessly, then we expand. Master Kirpal always said that when you give, your hand goes from you, from your body to outside. It expands. When you take, you take it from a certain point and take it to your body, so it contracts you.”

“We may have a peaceful mind and an agitated mind, full of worries, anxieties, and fears. By its nature, the mind won’t get to peace. The mind likes worries, anxieties, and fears. So we have to make an effort to bring peace into our within. Therefore, we have to direct our attention towards something that brings peace, love, and well-being. So if we direct our attention towards the thing we love, the Divine Being, which is beauty, love, peace, and bliss then that’s the way of counteracting the action of the mind.”

“Your word is light without a shadow. When it strikes you, it sounds like a trumpet, awakening the man from his tomb.” So this word is the God-Into-Expression power that manifests as Divine Light and Divine Sound. These are the two Divine links that bind man with the Divine. This Light manifests in the middle of our forehead at the Third Eye. This is the spot from where the soul exits the body. If the soul links and binds itself with the Light or the Sound—or both—it goes back to where this Sound and Light emanate. It’s like the rivers that eventually end up in the sea. Wherever rain falls, it eventually goes into a river, and from the river back into the sea. Therefore, if we fall into the river of Light and Sound, we may return to the Ocean of Light, which is the origin of our existence. Therefore, every meditation should be an attempt to connect the Surat with the Shabd, to bind and unite them. If you are able to connect and bind yourself with these, you actualize Surat Shabd Yoga, which is the union of Surat (attention) with Shabd (Divine Light and Divine Sound).

“The Path is a Path of Love. This is the Path of Guru Bhakti. It’s called Sant Mat, but it’s also called Guru Mat. Love plays a very important role here. Sant Ajaib Singh Ji used to say, ‘Do your meditation with love because the work that is done with love definitely pleases the Master.’ The Supreme Master, that is God himself, is the reality we must reach. However, it is helpful to begin by loving someone we can see with our eyes. Before we understand what the Supreme Guru or Supreme Truth is, it is difficult to love something unknown. So we begin by loving the Master in his physical body. This helps us develop a powerful love. It is on the wings of this love that we can fly back home. This is the dynamic of this Path. We first love the Master in his physical body, who represents our chosen divinity—the one through whom grace flows and reaches us. We create and develop this powerful love, and when it becomes intense, we will fly back to the Supreme Guru, the Supreme God, the Supreme Light. That’s how it works. When we have this love, we will also be able to practice what the Master tells us to do with love. And if we do it with love, according to Sant Ajaib Singh Ji, it will work. It will be pleasant. It will be accepted.”

“We sing the Holy songs to create an atmosphere, to charge up the atmosphere so that the mind becomes calm. If we sing such songs with full concentration, love, and devotion, then the mind becomes calm and meditation becomes possible. You can only meditate with a quiet mind, with a peaceful mind. You can’t meditate with an agitated mind. This is making the preparation ground for a good meditation. Master Kirpal used to say, “The singing of Holy songs before meditation helps develop receptivity to the Divine power, Divine energy.” And that’s another key factor in spiritual practice, which is to be receptive. Because we have to tune in with this Divine presence, we can do it only if we are receptive. This space is full of energy. It’s charged up with incredible energy. But we don’t perceive it unless we become receptive to it. And when we become receptive, then meditation just happens by itself. This is the purpose of singing the Holy songs.”

“Humility is the opposite of ego. Ego is disgusting. Humility is very beautiful. Sant Ajaib Singh used to say, you may do anything very beautiful, very special. But if you do it with a sense of ego, with arrogance, then it’s like preparing a beautiful dish and then throwing ash or mud on it. So, humility is very important. Humility makes a person very beautiful. Arrogance even if a person is beautiful makes him or her disgusting. So, it’s very good to be humble in the awareness that we are capable of nothing. Only God, only the Supreme Reality is the all-doer that brings all the blessing and goodness in our life. And also meditation, we don’t have to do with the sense of ego again. I am a good meditator. That’s not the way. Nobody can be a good meditator without God’s grace. Also when we sit in meditation, we have to do meditation with a deep sense of humility in the awareness that all the blessings come from Him and we are capable of nothing. We can make ourselves available only and the blessing comes from Him.”

“There might be several kinds of donors in this world. Those who donate money, those who donate food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. And they’re all good, very good. Whosoever feels the need to share to donate to the needy, He’s a good man. It’s a sign of having a good heart, being a good man, a good woman, a good human being. But all these kinds of donors cannot be compared with the Guru that gives us what’s invisible. Transmits to us the spiritual perception, and enounces our inner perception to feel the Holy presence of God. Obviously, to the degree to which we are capable of. Sant Ajaib Singh always said there is never a problem with the giver, the problems are only with the receiver. And He used to say, somebody who is ready, somebody who has done already in his previous life, a great spiritual work, a lot of meditation, tuning in with the divine presence then when he comes in this world and takes another body, that’s a ready soul. It needs just a spark, and then it bursts and explodes. So as such a person coming in touch with the Living Master is like, He used to say, gunpowder coming close to fire, explodes right away. But most people are like wet gunpowder, and wet gunpowder does not explode. First, it needs to be made dry. It needs to be exposed to the sun’s rays to get dry. In the same way, we people need to be exposed to the rays of the sun of the Master to dry up, which means to be ready for a spiritual awakening, for a spiritual enlightenment. So we need to be patient with ourselves. We stand wherever we stand. We are wherever we are in our evolution. We can be neither forward nor backward. We are just where we are, and we are who we are. So we should accept ourselves and start from there where we are and keep growing, keep working on ourselves, and keep doing our spiritual practice, to sharpen our perception.”

“Master gives us the medicine of the name of God or the Naam of God and tunes us with Him.”

“The real seeker of truth would always get up early, at least at dawn. When the energy is peaceful and harmonious. One is rested after the night’s sleep, the mind is quieter. It is a moment in time in which night meets the day. So it’s like, springtime. It’s like being born. And that’s the most favorable time for sitting in meditation. So one gets up with joy, with the pleasure of doing this practice that takes one above this purely physical awareness and consciousness into an at least more peaceful, more profound space within oneself. So one sits down in meditation and praises this indelible, infinite being: Please, I have all my limits. I am a human being. You know what it means to be a human being. So please consider my limits and be merciful, be gracious. Manifest in me your Light.”