The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
„If we are sincere in our quest and in our practice, from time to time, from beyond the veil the Divine presence manifests. Then we feel fulfilled, joyful and blissful, and we feel kind of enlightened.”
“While doing any manual or mechanical work or in idle moments, you can continue repeating the five holy Names or recite some prayer lovingly all the time and you will feel new strength is entering within you and that someone is working with you, sharing much of your labor.”
“Usually we people do not meditate, or we meditate very little. But we have so many desires which we present to our Masters; and when those desires do not get fulfilled, then we lose faith in the Master. So this is not something we can call as having true love for the Master; it is like we are working for the Master and asking for payment for it. Guru Nanak Sahib has said that if we are asking for anything other than the Naam, we are inviting all the sufferings and problems; because contentment, happiness, and peace are in the Naam only.”
“There is a right hand, there is a left hand: they’re two. When we join them together: they’re one. This is what we want.”
“If we attend Satsang, we are protected. Through the Satsang we are renewed in our enthusiasm, in our commitment, in our will to keep going.”
“He, I’ve been seeking, for Him my heart I tormented; so much I yearned, so much I craved that at last, He showed Himself to me.”
“We are not just believers because we are told to be believers, because we are imposed to be believers or because we are dogmatic. We become believers when we see Him! It’s the experience we have that makes us true believers!”
“What is it that prevents you from following the Master’s instructions? It is your own mind, which you have not yet been able to coax away from the outer attachments of the world to the bliss that awaits it inside.”
“Whosoever has taken the Naam, whoever has gone to the Master and has done the devotion, the meditation of Naam, has reached the home of God. In the past it was like this and in the future also it will be like this.”
“My advice is from this day on to make love and self-surrender the corner-stones of your life. If you do this, you will find your life becoming daily a blessing. You must endeavor to cultivate a large capacity for self-surrender to and love for the Master if you wish to make substantial progress in the spiritual field. I have said many times, the Path is not easy. You must crucify your ego and lay your selfhood at the altar of love for your Master.”
“One who permits himself or herself to be disturbed by what others say and do, is without question one who is still controlled by the ego and has yet to conquer the self, and learn the rudiments of spirituality.”
“One way of pleasing the Master is to live up to what the Master says without regard to what your mind says or what your heart likes.”
“Human beings have always been after a permanent joy, which does not depend on other factors, but comes from within ourselves. This is the eternal quest of we human beings!”
“When we do spiritual practice, we do not just benefit ourselves, but we contribute to keeping the balance in between the not so good energies and the positive ones. So we are doing first of all a service to ourselves, to our soul for our spiritual evolution, and then we are serving, helping to keep the balance in this world. Thoughts are very potent – used to say Master Kirpal. They are more potent than words and actions. Thoughts move all the world. If you manage to have good thoughts, positive thoughts, thoughts of love, not just when we are on a retreat, but in our daily life, then we are contributing, doing our seva [selfless service] so to say, to keep the balance in this world. So we should try to be beings of Light, beings of Love that serve humanity with their positivity, with their optimism.”
“The all topic of spirituality is about transcending the sense of I and coming into the awareness of the Supreme I.”
“The Master-Power is your companion always through thick and thin. So in all of your affairs do whatever you can and leave the rest up to Him, and try not to feel annoyed or discouraged.”
“By seeing the pictures of the past Mahatmas we come to know that They all were born in the human form, They also had the eyes, the nose and the human form like we have, and They also used to walk and talk and do things like we do. How is it possible that in the past God needed to send the Saints into this world and now He does not need to? Like a child who was born two ages or two thousand years ago needed its mother, now also the children who are being born need their mother as much as the children born two ages ago needed her. So in the same way that God needed to send the Saints to this world a few ages or a couple of thousand years back, now also He needs to send the Saints into this world. Because the souls who are born now in this creation need the presence of the Saints in this world as much as the souls who were born in this world in the past.”
“A measure of success of how well you are succeeding in handling your outer environment will be a gradual awareness that you are becoming the master of your own thoughts.”
“Please note – an ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.”
“So long as we have the comforts and happinesses of the world we may go on saying, “It is all in the Will of God. God is giving us all these things.” But when in His Will the moments of pain and suffering come in our life, then only a few people are there – rare are the fortunate ones – who remain with the same faith in the Master.”