The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“Material person has to feed himself/herself with material things, as Spiritual person with nourish himself as Spiritus actions.”
“In life there are always so many unexpected things. Surprises. That they cause an irritation of the mind. So the mind becomes. Active, begins planning. Begins pondering over things. Should be like this should be like that.could be like this could be like that. I should have done this. I should have done that. I didn’t do it, right. I did it wrong. And of course, this creates restlessness within us. The thing is that things happen the way they happen. That’s the way they’re meant to be. Because once something has happened. It couldn’t be any different.”
“So when we sit in meditation, we should never sit with an attitude of. “Oh, now I have to struggle somehow with my mind with my body and maybe suffer a bit.” We shouldn’t consider this. We shouldn’t sit with this attitude. We should sit with the attitude of “Oh nice, I’m going to try and come in touch with the divine and try and experience something higher then what I experience with the body with the mind.” And try and come in touch with a spirit, the holy spirit of God. And how great, it is. I’m doing the most important thing the greatest thing we humans can do.”
“The thing is, if we do Simran Then things happen so much better.Everything goes so much better.”
“Before something happens one can do his best to make it go the right way according to our understanding but when something has happened. Then we should just make peace with it and not ponder over it. It was a mistake, it was right, it was wrong. We Should have done like this, we should have done like that. No, when things happen They’re just meant to be the way they happen. If we have this deep philosophical conviction , then we can spare so much troubles for ourselves.”
“When we come on the spiritual Path, we come into a protective field that takes charge of our life and it will direct it the way which is best for us, for our spiritual progress.”
“To be real it’s very good, not to close your eyes to reality is very good. Beginning with ourselves it’s very good to be aware of what needs to be changed inside of us, what needs to be improved and always be open to growth. That we are on a journey to perfection as much as possible and that we are not yet there. We are trying and we have to continue trying.”
“To have access to the Inner Light, even if it happens just once in our life, it’s yet worthwile, because it’s the supreme experience of human life.”
“Expanding oneself more and more, getting out of the narrow cage of our tiny personality and becoming broader and broader, until we become Gurumukh, or mouthpieces of the Guru or conscious co-workers of the Divine Plan.”
“If you believe God is the doer of everything and everything is moved by him. Everything happens according to his will. Then we should just be at peace and accept Situations the way they are the way they happen to be.”
“God is formless. It’s absolute. Omnipotent. But He’s above form and duality and time and space. But He manifests to us the way we worship him. So if we love our Master and understand that God manifests to us through our Master it’s natural that we give to this God Supreme above form and shape and everything. We give this faith, give this form. It becomes our personal God, our Ishtadeva. That’s how it’s called in India. The personal God that we choose shapes us our psyche, our mind. This God manifests to us in that form in which we adore Him.”
“We have to find strategies by which we are able to make the Path work. If we don’t react to situations and just let it be, than we get lost, we loose the way. We loose the spirit of the way. So there’s always a way that works, we have to find it for ourselves.”
“In order to go back to the Source, to the Origin, we have to unite our Surat, or attention, with this Divine Power, or Shabd, or Divine Light and Divine Sound. “
“Oh my Gurudev, whatever I have, it has been given to me by You. So I offer it to You, by placing it at Your lotus feet. “
“The Truth is Life, the Truth is LIght and it is also Love. The Truth is God. So that is what we want to contact always when we sit in meditation.”
“This God it’s not a person, it’s not anything that you can touch. It’s a Divine State of Consciousness in which you feel drenched, full, saturated with the Divine.”
“Any meditation we do is going to build up this kind of spiritual being we want to become. Iths going to build up inside of us this being of Light, which is what we really are, because the identification with this physical body is just an illustion.”
“Time is like a river in which we fish out moments of Eternity.”
“If we’re able to stop this thinking process for just a few minutes, than a new dimension, a higher dimension, opens up. “
“Any meditation sitting we do, and anytime we contact something deeper inside of us, we add a brick to the temple of the spirit that we are building for ourselves.”