The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“It’s very important to understand who we are what we are. So I am not this body.I am not this mind.”
“An intelligent person cannot believe we are just flesh and bones and then when we die it’s everything over.”
“If we analyze are thinking. It’s actually not are thinking. We don’t have any control of our thoughts.”
“Because with this body yes, we experience some joys some pleasurese but a lot of suffering really. Much more the suffering than the joy. So the trouble of existence. Existing in this world and in this body it’s heavy. It’s a cage. It’s a prison. So maybe we are something more.”
“Analyze yourself, try to understand who you are what you are. Because normally our concept or the concept we have of ourselves is wrong.”
“Sant Ji used to say, you never give up going down below the window of the Master and wait there for His grace. Because you never know when it’s going to come. When will it open the window, look at you, and shower you with grace? Now, we know that the window of the Master is the Third Eye. But the window of the Master is also being in His company and being present in any situation because we never know when the doors of grace will open up, and we will be blessed. So in the same way, we should never miss our meditation because that’s how we sit below the Master’s window and wait for his grace. Anyway, for long periods, there might be aridity, this sense of Vichora as they call it in India, means separation from the Master power. Yet, we must keep persevering and sit there making ourselves available. Because you never know when the doors of grace open up again and you’ll be blessed, and we’ll be tuned in again with His Holy presence. So a seeker of Truth will never miss getting up early in the morning. Get ready. Do some exercise. Make your body fit. Sing the holy songs of the Master, and then sit peacefully in meditation.”
“So we will never find rest , we will never feel fullfiled unless we will go back to our origin. And it seems obvious, if we look at nature, if we look at the events of life, everything tells us about the same storry, these same fenomenon, everything in creation tends to go back to it’s origin, because there we feel happy, there we feel fullfiled, complete.”
“All the problems are created by our mind, by the wrong understanding of things. If we understand wrong something, than of course we act wrong, and we make it worst. But if we understand properly something, we accept it and try to make it better, than definitely we will get better. So everything is born in the mind and it is there that we have to work, to act, by making it quite, peaceful, tranquil.”
“Everything we do on a spiritual path as far as practice is concern, philosophy of life is concern, lifestyle, is all meant to help us overcome this individual, separated “I”, and gain access to the Universal. This means expanding oneself more and more, getting out of the narrow cage of our tiny personality and becoming broader and broader.”
“Doing our spiritual practice exposes us to this possibility of becoming addicted to something. Something beyond something which is not of this world.”
“God is the only real thing, this world is perishable, it’s passing and going.”
“Because the Master Kirpal use to say when the dog behaves bad it is the Master of the dog to be blamed. So also when the Master children do not behave properly I show a good example then people what do they say, this Master has such bad people with himself his teachings are bad they dont improve anybody. So you should be awera of this and to succed in this we need to do our spiritual practice that will direct our life. It gives us the strength to stick to the teachings and change our life.”
“This Naam power if we meditate and come in touch with it, it will help us a lot in keeping up our promisis, saving our dignity our honor as human beings. Moreover his is not saving only our dignity and honor, but also the dignity and honor of the Master.”
“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.”