The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“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.”
“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.”