The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“Do not worry as to what may or may not happen in the near or distant future. The Master always shields His children suitably.”
“God Himself does everything. He Himself plans for all the souls. He knows which souls are ready for liberation and which souls must come in His contact. That is why we should always devote ourselves in the meditation of that God, and why we should always worship Him. Whatever is happening is happening in the Will of God, because everything is in His Will, and He Himself has kept all things in His hands.”
“I would rather have a handful of disciples, nay even one, who can sacrifice their ego on the spiritual altar and learn to live by love, than millions who understand not the value and meaning of these virtues.”
“Exploring the spiritual dimension of life is the ultimate adventure.”
“The sense of gratitude towards life for what we were given it’s a duty from us!”
“Unless we develop that real love for the Master, we are like a toy in the hands of all these five dacoits. Sometimes lust is bothering us, sometimes we are bothered by anger, egoism, greed, and attachment. Unless we develop that real love and yearning for the Master, all these things keep bothering us. But when the love for the Master is manifested within us, then all these things fly out from our within us and do not bother us anymore. When the eagle of love comes in our within, the small birds of passions fly away because they cannot stand that real love for the Master.”
“You may well ask why there is this insistent stress on complete self-surrender on the mystic path. The answer is simple: without this absolute surrender of the last vestiges of ego and selfhood and without such complete absorption in the object of one’s love, one cannot attain that unwavering concentration of all one’s faculties which is the prerequisite of all inner progress.”
“If we do Simran, we put a break to the endless thoughts thus we create a bridge by which we may transcend or ascend from the human to the Divine.”
“In all trying circumstances, prayer is the last weapon in our armory. Where all human efforts fail, prayer succeeds.”
“We should always do our meditation and never listen to our mind. Mind is our only enemy and he will never let us become faithful to the Master, and he will never let us do the meditation. That is why we should never listen to him, we should always listen to the words of the Satguru, and we should always do the meditation. Regarding the deceptions of the mind, I have said this many times: that after meditating for sixteen or seventeen years, once I came out from the underground room, and my mind told me, “You have been sitting so long without getting anything.” But at once I got another inner sound. “You should not lose your enthusiasm; go back to your room and do the meditation.” And again I went into the meditation room and started doing my meditation, and I realized how the mind was trying to deceive me at that time. So you can never rely on the mind; you can never know when the mind is going to come and deceive you. That is why the only way to escape from the deception of the mind is constant meditation, which we should always do.”
“You must guard, too, against certain small desires which are common in daily life. Never wish to think, or to appear clever; have no desire to speak. It is well to speak little; better still to say nothing, unless you are quite sure that what you wish to say is quite true, kind, and helpful.”
“One’s whole life can be changed with meditation and love for the Guru. The Guru will then appear within.”
“If man can control the dim hours from sunset to sunrise, he becomes a true human being. But instead we eat, drink, enjoy the worldly pleasures until midnight, and then snore the rest of the night away.”
“The efforts of the disciple and the grace of the Master go hand in hand. Effort is rewarded with grace, and grace brings more effort. When a laborer gets his wages after a day’s work, is the Master so unjust that he will keep back his grace from a diligent disciple?”
Whatever way mind wants, he makes the Satsangi dance to his tune. But the Satsangi should not dance to the tune of the mind, with all his strength he should do the Simran. If the mind creates any thought of losing faith or anything like that, punish your mind and do more Simran. If you are used to sitting for one hour and if your mind is bothering you in that one hour, meditate for two hours on that day.”
“So if all the time we think of Him, no matter while we are engaged in worldly pursuits, we will gradually imbibe His spirit.”
“So, in the court of Saints, this is the greatest teaching, the secret of all secrets: that God is won by him who will give his mind.”
“The great value of life it’s in achieving the Divine condition, the Divine state, the Divine consciousness. That’s the goal of life! That’s the gift that we get if we are ready for it!”
“If we saturate our mind with repetition of Divine names then Divinity comes and dwells within us.”
“Divinity is potentially within every human being. We only have to live a lifestyle that allows us to manifest it. How do we do this? The same way as all the great Masters have done it, in all spiritual traditions, in all the parts of the world. We do it by meditating on Naam, by manifesting the Inner Light. They illuminated the world by meditating on Naam and realising the potential divinity within themselves. When a person achieves such a realisation, other people will naturally gather around him or her because they sense the beneft, and they will also become illuminated or enlightened.”