Quotes Collection

“The beauty of the spiritual practice that we do is that it acts like a detergent for our within, for our mind, for our thoughts, for our soul. And each time it’s like rubbing away dirt and heaviness. That dust that by any means keeps slowly pouring on our consciousness. The space is full of dust. If you watch a ray of sun crossing the room, you can see so many particles of dust, which we normally don’t see, but they are constantly pouring down on the earth. Similarly, our thoughts, our emotions generated by the thoughts, are like laying our soul, our consciousness. And it makes it dull. It’s like the Rumi songs when it says, If you want the mirror of your heart clean, apply the practice of meditation. If your heart is dull, it’s because you did not remove the dust. So, that is one of the reasons, one of the purposes of doing our spiritual practice. Keep our within as clean as possible, as transparent as possible. And that’s the beauty of the Master souls. They look transparent because they are constantly cleaning, and they keep their inner space clean. So, each meditation we do is like sweeping away dust from within and bringing in Light.”

“You have tuned me with your Holy Naam. You have filled my soul with Light. In my heart, you have infused an altar as hot as coals.” That’s the blessing we receive when we meet a Master. We are tuned in with the holy Naam, which is the Holy Divine Light of God. And we are filled up with this, we are saturated with this Light. This brings a great sense of peace. It’s like coming home. Finally, I have experienced this tuning in with the Divine Light. It’s a great realization. That we may take for granted, but in this world, very few people have it. So then we have to keep this blessing. And we do it by doing a regular spiritual practice. Every day we sing the bhajans, every day we repeat the Simran, and we sit peacefully in meditation to tune in with the Holy Light. Master Kirpal used to say, just as we give food to our body to keep it going, in the same way we have to feed our soul to keep growing spiritually.

“Our mind is full of anxieties, worries, fears, memories, and fantasies. To have a good meditation, an effective meditation, we have to get rid of all this. Only in the deep silence, the Divine manifests. So outer silence, maybe. But inner silence is what we want. So, when we sit in meditation, we have to sit with goodwill, with enthusiasm, with the pleasure of doing it. Sant Ji always used to say: “Do meditation with love, because it works only if you do it with love, not as a burden.” So when we do anything with the pleasure of doing it with love, with devotion, it’s a blessing in itself. If you do it, understanding it is a burden, then a burden would be. But we want to succeed. We want to be able to pierce through the dark veil and see the Light.”

“Everything that happens to us is always the result of our request, our wanting, or our prayer for it. Sometimes a blessing comes by itself, but that’s a blessing. It’s a boom. It’s a gift. Usually, it is the result of some of our requests. Inner craving, inner longing. So lucky are those who have this natural inner craving for God. Because it is according to the intensity of our longing that blessing comes and corresponds. Masters often gives the example of someone drowning and how much they wish for air to be able to breathe. Well, the longing for God should be as strong and intense as the need for breathing for the person who is drowning. Then it works. Then we get wonderful results. But this is very rare. Very few people have this gift, this natural inclination. So we have to practice, then this keeps building up. And the best way for this, anyway, is keeping the company of those who have this gift because somehow it goes into us. It penetrates us. Sinks into us. “

“A true seeker of Truth, every morning with determination and discipline, will get up at the sun rays, at dawn, and sit down begging for His love, begging for His Light. This is what makes a difference between a Satsangi or a seeker of Truth and an ordinary being. An ordinary being just lives for eating, drinking, and some pleasures. A true seeker of Truth wants to realize the Truth, wants to realize the Light and the love of the Divine. So he will act for this; he will perform his practice with all his heart. Therefore, to do so, we have to act. We have to do our practice every day. Just as we eat and drink, by the way, every day in the same way, we give food and drink to our soul, to our spirit. And the food and drink of this soul or spirit or consciousness is the Divine Light of God. Because that’s what we are. Eventually, we are just Light. This physical body is just an appearance. So the Light wants to go back to the Supreme Light. Therefore, we want to go back to our Supreme Beloved, our Supreme Soul.”

“Since the flute was taken away from the reed field, it has made men and women weep with its sweet sound. Because whosoever is far away from his origin, he’s always looking for the time when he was united. And this is the condition of we human beings. We emanated from the Ocean of Light at some point. And we have been wandering in this cycle of transmigration for nobody knows how long. So as long as we don’t go back to our origin, we will never find any peace. We may find temporary peace here and there for a while. But this urge, this deep need, which is inside of us, we’ll never be satisfied with anything that is not the Divine Light. So, when we reach a certain point in our lives, something happens that shaken us. And, we are made to understand that nothing in this world really belongs to you. Nothing in this world will ever make you satisfied, happy, or fulfilled. It’s only the Eternal that He’s our origin, that beyond space and time condition that will make us fully complete, fully satisfied. So then we begin our inner journey towards our origin. And the more intense the need, the more intense is the call, the more intense it has been the starting experience, the quicker will be, the more profound will be, the more pleasant will be the journey. So we can make it easier. We can make it difficult according to the way we expose ourselves to it, the way we practice it. So those who are called for this are the lucky ones. Those who are more mature souls, ready souls for the journey back home.”

“Let us not be afraid of anything. This is pure Love, what should one be afraid of?”

“Meditation wants to take us to discover our Divine nature. And for this, we have to sit patiently in meditation, trying to withdraw from this physical consciousness. Break this identification with the body, and well focus our attention in the middle of what we see in front of our forehead. This is the spot from which we leave the body at the time of death, and this is the spot from which we leave the body when we’re going through deep meditation. The body is like a cage in which we are imprisoned, limiting our infinite potential. If you’re able to withdraw from it, then we’ll experience freedom like birds, experience freedom once they get out of the cage. When we sit in meditation, we want to activate the Third-eye. And when the Third-eye opens, we are flooded with Light. Then we discover who we are, what we are. We discover that we are not this body. We are not this thinking mind. We are pure consciousness, expanded consciousness. And that’s the most wonderful experience we may have in life. If you have it just for once, you will never forget it. If you have it more times, then we’ll be blessed. If you have it often, then we are realized. Self-realized.”

“When we tune in, we open the inner door and activate luminous vision. Therefore, to activate the luminous vision, we need to tune in. Tune in with what? We have to tune in with the God-into-expression power. What is inside of us is outside of us. It’s all-pervading. And the socket for plugging in, it’s the attention. Only well-focused attention is well-tuned in, well plugged.”

“When we want to climb a mountain, we need first of all, we need a lot of will and goodwill. Because it’s very hard to climb a mountain, so the passion for it, the goodwill, the longing to be up there and watch the world from another perspective must be there. Otherwise, nobody dares to climb anything. And also you need tools and instruments. You need a rope maybe. So also to climb the peak of self-realization, we need, we need a rope. We need to connect with something by following which we get back to the source, to the origin of it. So this rope is the Divine Light, the Divine Sound. If you tune in with it, then by following it, we can climb back to the peak of Divinity. So this is what we try to do when we sit in meditation. Let’s say the Bhajan singing is there is meant to create this enthusiasm, this longing, and also this receptivity to this flow of Naam Power. Then we have to connect with it and try to tune in with it. And for this, the only way is to switch off the mind. Naam is on one side, mind is on the other side. The two did not meet. Only the soul or the consciousness can meet with the Naam Power, Sadguru Power. The mind is the wall, is the impediment. It’s not a helping factor. It may help us understand things, but then unless we switch it off, we cannot connect. So to switch off the mind, we have to activate the Surat or the attention, which is the outer expression of the soul. That’s why we have to try to fully focus on one spot and just keep looking and looking there. This way we activate our attention, our Surat. And consequently, the mind switches off.”

“When the inner door opens and from the physical, we are taken into the Light, then this is what changes us, transforms us. So it’s worthwhile trying and trying again up until this happens. For some people, it’s easier because they have already done it in previous lifetimes. It has already happened to them. Some others take longer because it didn’t happen to them. But with severe perseverance, sooner or later, it happens. At any rate, sit down peacefully, relax, and find peace, make peaceful and quiet this nervous system and this pschyce, it’s already something great, something good. It makes us balanced, makes us peaceful, capable of facing the situations of life in an equipoised way. So meditation is always beneficial. Whether we transcend and go into the Light, or we just make ourselves peaceful, relaxed, and calm. “

“Master Kirpal used to say Surat is a faculty of the soul, not of the mind. The mind works in us through thoughts. The soul works in us through attention. And it is this attention that gives meaning, and purpose to everything. Everything we do, if we are attentive and well-focused on what we are doing, gives us pleasure. Anything we do without attention, doesn’t give us any pleasure. It doesn’t mean anything. We are not even aware that it’s happening, because we are somewhere else with our thoughts. So especially when we sit in meditation, we should be fully in Surat, well focused in the eye center, and steadily keep looking in the middle of what we see. As far as we are busy looking, we don’t think. If you stop looking, then we begin thinking.”

“We are nothing yet inside of us we have this spark of infinite Divinity. That’s the paradox of existence. In the tiniest particle, you find the infinite. But it’s not enough to realize this intellectually or scientifically even with scientific proofs that it is like this. Nowadays, there is scientific evidence that this is the reality. This means there is no reality. It’s all a dream. It’s all a fantasy. It’s all imagination. We imagine to exist, but we don’t exist at all. So become this nothing. That’s the old process of getting rid of all the troubles and headaches of existence. Since we are convinced to be so much, then it’s very difficult to become nothing. That is what we really are. But if you become nothing, then we become everything. It seems absurd, but life is absurd. But as I said, it’s not enough to come to realize this intellectually, even scientifically. It has to be an inner experience of ours. Then it becomes really a fact for us. We witness with our inner eyes, with our inner perception. So that’s why in meditation we try to focus on just one point, one single spot. Because we want to go back to the One. So one spot, which is one center. So it’s called a single eye because the reality you don’t see with two eyes. You see it with just one eye because the reality is one. So it’s not the outer eyes I can see the reality. This is the inner eye that sees the reality.”

“We people have so many addictions, dependencies, and bondages. We have the mental dependencies. We have physical dependencies and emotional dependencies. And as far as you don’t find something better, something superior in life, which is above all these, we are not able to free ourselves from them. Most of us don’t even realize that we are so much bound, by so many conditions. But when we begin doing our introspection work and we begin doing our meditation and raise above a little bit the human condition we become aware of all these dependencies, all these conditionings. So as we become aware of them by and by, we get also rid of them. When people say I’m a free man, it means that I got rid of all this. And I am a free man in the sense that I’m ready, capable of welcoming life the way it is, the way it comes without any preconception. Without wanting that it should be different. It’s fine the way it is, and I love it the way it is. That’s freedom! Of course, one can say these, when he or she gets rid of all these fears, all these clingings, all these conditioning. So meditation on the Light and Sound makes us aware of all this. Raising above all these, we can see everything very clearly. And all these chains, all these bondages, they automatically fall away. And the only bond that breaks all these chains is devotion to the One, to the Absolute, the Eternal.”

“We got to a retreat in order to get out of this daily routine, which somehow clouds our consciousness because we have to be aware that spiritual life is not that you reach a certain stage and it is done. It doesn’t exist this way, it doesn’t happen this way. It’s something that needs to be renewed all the time, until the last day of our life. Nobody can say I’ve reached a certain stage and this stage will stay with me forever. I don’t need to do anything anymore. I can stop meditating. I can live off all possible practices. This now will stay with me forever. It doesn’t exist. If anybody asserts that this is possible, then this person is lying to you.”

“The Path is a Path of love, which we may treat and may go through only if you can develop a very intense love for our Supreme Lord, our Supreme God, and our Sadguru. There is no other way to go through the Path. It won’t be the knowledge, it won’t be the discrimination, it won’t be the scientific research of reality, or the logic or the reason that will take us there. It’s only if we have the good luck of being flared up by the love of God, that it becomes like a consuming fire that we can go all the way on the Path. So when we are caught by a powerful wave of love, of devotion, then we may make this leap, this jump, and go out of this our ordinary, human condition, and step into a Divine inner state. Saturated with His presence, with His incredible love, with His bliss, with His ecstasy, with all the goodness that comes, and we are in touch with this all-pervading power. All the other factors of the Path may be important, but this is the real fundament, it’s the building factor. It is the fuel that gives us the power, the energy, the strength to fly out of this human condition.”

“Either we take control over our thoughts, over our attention and move it the way we want, the direction we want, we become the master of it, the mind, the thoughts, our axieties, the worries, memories, fantasies, take control over us and lead us where they want. So the point is here, be the master of yourself, don’t let your emotion, your thoughts, your fantasies, your memories lead you wherever they want. You lead them, you lead your attention, where you want. Then you’re free. Otherwise you’re a slave of yourself.”

“What everybody wants to achieve on a spiritual path is to have a constant, continuous presence of the Divine within. Because when we experience this Divine presence, this Divine state of consciousness, we naturally will always like to be there. You will never like to go back to the ordinary state of consciousness because it is so miserable in comparison. But this is not easy. This is the most difficult thing in the Universe. Because as far as we are in a physical body, the consciousness tends to go back again and again to this physical level. It is a sort of inner force of gravity that drags everything down back again to the Earth. But this force of gravity has a certain extension. And once we go beyond that extension, then it no longer has an effect. But very few lucky people ever get to reach so high. So for most people, while we are in this physical body, even if we have wonderful spiritual experiences, then by any means, the consciousness will return to the physical level. So this is the struggle, trying to get back as close as possible to that Divine condition. And for this, we have to do lots of spiritual practice. It needed so much patience, so much insistence, and perseverance. The fact is that when we have experienced a state of that kind, life in this world and this body will not be appealing anymore. So this is the dynamic and torment of the spiritual life, of the spiritual transformation. But it is meant to be like this. That’s how it works.”

“Love and devotion are very important factors on this spiritual path. They make everything easy. If these two elements are present in our relationship with our Master and in treating the Path, then everything is so much easier. If they are absent, then everything becomes much more difficult.”

“A good way to begin our meditation is by praying to our Lord, to the one we choose as our Divinity, to manifest His Light in us, within us, and to allow us to melt into Him, disappear into Him, and lose any trace of our individual self.”