The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“We can say, tell me which habits you have and I tell you who you are, what’s your value.”
“Change your habits, don’t be dependent on anything, just be free. Don’t spoil this temple of God which is your body by introducing alcoholics, drugs and all this garbage. Keep it holy, because it’s holy. Be free, don’t be dependent on anything. This is what the Path is teaching to us.”
“When we go for a walk in nature and we are scared of snakes, all we will be looking for will be snakes. When we go out in nature and we love flowers, all we will be looking for are flowers.”
“What is important in spirituality? It is to find ways and means by which you are wide awaken, you are well conscious, well focused and concentrated, because this way the meditation becomes fruitful. Otherwise it doesn’t carry on much effect.”
“We don’t want to think of these foolish thoughts that cross our mind daily. We miss our time, we miss our life just thinking of foolish things which have no consequence most of them, and if they have a consequence, most of the time its going to be troubles, pain. Thoughts are very potent, as Lord Kirpal says, ‘as we think, so we become’. So, some thoughts have no consequence, they just keep whirling in our head, but when these thoughts become tendencies, when they become well-established in our consciousness, then they create realities, they shape our life. So we must be very careful what we think, if we love ourselves. We don’t want to suffer, we don’t want to have troubles in life, we don’t want our life to be miserable. We want our life, as Master Kirpal puts it here, to be blissful, intoxicated, ecstatic. We want to have a Divine life, and not a miserable life. So let’s be careful what we think, and more than this, let’s do Simran.”
“Therefore, if something happens which seems incomprehensible in the life of the Master from whom we have received initiation and spiritual awakening, through whom we have received grace over so many years because of His absolute dedication to the service of His spiritual children, let us be patient, let us not lose faith, let us not judge, and let us remain convinced that if a Master allows something to happen, this will undoubtedly be for the good of all.”
“This is why the eyes of the Master, and His physical form, are the most important thing. Places of pilgrimage, Japa and Tapa, repetitions, assiduous or austere practices, all these are nothing in comparison with darshan.”
“Everything starts from a center and wants to expand without limits, then everyone wants to return to the center, in the center welling life at the extremity dominates the death.”
“Do not ever think that the Way is a fairy tale, a hypothesis , an illusion or a mere utopia because the Way is the only thing true and real in this vast universe, everything else on the other hand, is an illusion.”
“….for all since it becomes clear that everything is a manifestation of His infinity.”
“What is the greatest enterprise of life? The quest for the Holy, the Divine, is the greatest adventure. Why is that? I suppose because it leads us to the ultimate goal of human potential: the self-realization and God realization. It’s not a small feat I assure you, it’s beautiful to live in that enlightened consciousness, the inner state of great harmony and deep peace, great reverence for all creation, such a respect.”
“The life is long and the Path is long as well if one treats it and there may be long periods in which one needs to be quiet, to be patient and know how to wait. This life if you pretend there is always springtime, it can’t be. There is springtime and there is summer, then there is autumn and there is winter. Therefore also in life and on the spiritual path, in spiritual life there are springtimes, summertimes, autumns and winter. But if You are able to be patient, then after winter springtime comes again.”
“…..because when you love someone you do every possible effort to be appreciated by him/her and also the spiritual contagion that is established when there is a large affinity with a similar great being allows us to experience states of consciousness of an extraordinary, transendence a unique intoxication and ecstasy.”
“So, when we meet somebody who has realised something very valuable in life, who has achieved really the kind of liberation by which the person perceives God, then in this meeting, if you are ready for it, then something will happen inside of us also. There will be a spiritual transmission, something we have been passed on from the person who is awakened to the person who is sleeping, from a person who is conscious to a person who is unconscious.”
“So, in order to get rid of the attachments of this world and the worldly things, we have to develop an attachment, a longing, a love for something higher.”
“So, there is nothing of this world is going to give to us a very lasting gratification, satisfaction, nothing of this world.”
“So, with the Path, the teachings of the Masters is the Path that if we follow it, it allows us to become better human beings. It allows us to get rid of our shortcomings, of our imperfections, of our bad habits.”
“The Path is like eyes that see. Without the Path is like being without eyes.”
“When we perceive the Truth, when we see the Truth then our intellect has eyes. When we don’t perceive the Truth, our intellect is blind.”
“The path gives us a direction in life so that we may improve ourself, we may improve our life, our outlook at life. We may improve in general. We may become better human beings. That’s why we take up the path.”