The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“The abstract conception of the Truth is of no use to humanity if this Truth stays a transcendental fact.”
“The Supreme teaching is an unspoken word.”
“Truth is a dynamic force, which keeps renewing itself all the time.”
“If we are able to get out of the cage of body and mind then we get out the cage of Time and Space and we see the reality with our eyes. That is why we are come on the Path, that is why we do the spiritual practice to experience this fact!”
“A spiritual person tries to find pleasure, nourishment, gratification from within, from within himself/herself. The way for this is through meditation, by annihilating the mind and by activating, waking up the Soul, the Spirit. This happens when we stop the thinking and we focus the attention.”
“Getting lost in Him, look to find the true Self, to go beyond form, beyond the duality, in order to achieve unity in the Formless.”
“Absence of me, presence of thee we want to practice, no more I, only God is our common living, in the Supreme peace it’s our common state, the Divine Beauty from our face we want to radiate.”
“We want to make our Master happy and give Him our loyality, cooperation and tireless service in His mission as a gift to be able to raise the consciousness of the biggest number of people. If His teaching requires a life that should be a brilliant, honest, truthful, nonviolent and full of selfless service to the neighbour, Spartan and unsophisticated, lover of nature and respectful toward the life of all, for us will only be a great pleasure to live that way and we will make all possible efforts to excel in all those virtues ready to do something more and nothing less.”
“When the sun rises, I sit down to beg for your love. My heart and soul are pining, bless me by manifesting Thy Own shining presence glow.”
“If you want to be free runaway from Your freedom…”
“Spending time with a living Master is the most helping factor in changing our lifestyle, in changing our habits, in changing deeply within.”
“It’s not what we believe that shapes this body and this mind, it’s not our beliefs that will liberate us. It’s the lifestyle that we have that shows how free we are, and a free person is not addicted to anything.”
“Tell me your habits and I tell you who you are, what you are…”
“This body is formed by those things that we eat, drink, even the air that we breath in. All of these are shaping this body and consequently this mind. It’s not what we believe that shapes this body and this mind. It’s not our beliefs that liberate us! It’s the lifestyle that we have which shows how free we are, and a free person is not addicted to anything. A free person is somebody who chooses what to take and what not to take and it’s not compelled by habits, by addictions or dependence!”
“The enemy of an active mind is a focused, concentrated attention!”
“You direct your life! Don’t let your ego direct your life!”
“Be aware of the dynamics of our mind and our ego and don’t let them take over you!”
“If we don’t go into a crisis, we don’t really change. We only change when life pushes us into the abyss, because we see the danger, either physical or mental. So it’s very good when we go into a crisis, into a very deep crisis, because there is a chance for change, for a real change. Crisis is an opportunity for change. If we never go into a very deep crisis, there’s never hope for us.”
“We have to be convinced that we will succeed. But for this we have to live that kind of life style and do our spiritual practice – which should be the center of our life. We are spiritual people if we do our spiritual practice. We are not spiritual if we are philosophically spiritual.”
“Habits. That’s what really conditions our life – our habits. We may want to be different, we may want to live a different lifestyle, maybe we would like to be very spiritual, we would like not to be addicted to anything, dependent on anything and be free. But our habits are our prison.”