The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“We are nothing, but inside us, we have this spark of the infinite of Divinity. That’s the paradox of existence. That is the most tiny particle you find in the infinite. But it’s not enough to realize 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 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 just in the 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.”
“When we meet the Master and we meditate with him that’s the best time to take the chance and try to go as close as possible to the Primal Source from which we all emanated at some point, and to which we all have to return. And this going back it’s within us. The journey, Sant Ajaib Singh Ji used to say, starts from the toes of your feet and goes up to the top of your head. Journey’s inside. It’s inside of us. We have to transcend what is this physical consciousness and try to go within the spiritual consciousness. And the gate through which we pass is in the middle of our forehead.”
“There are so many metaphors about the transformation of the self. The drop of rain falls into a shell, stays in the deepness of the ocean, and gradually it is transforming into a pear. Rubies, by opening to the influx of the sun rays, become this beautiful red that they have. The common human being, by staying in the company of a holy man gradually transforms into a Holy man. Whatever you want to become in life, keep the company of those people, and have developed the same qualities, and attributes. If you want to become a religious fanatic, go spend time with religious fanatics, and that’s what you will become. If you want to become a free man, an open-minded man, a human being who is capable of welcoming all the possible differences of life with an open mind then go spend time with free-minded people. If you want to become a meditator, go spend time with meditators.”
“If we have peace inside ourselves, we will also attract peace outside ourselves. And even if we find ourselves in difficult situations, we will be able to keep our equipoise, our balance, be peaceful, and not respond to the difficult situations. So if you want your life to become a heaven, then try to manifest heaven within yourself. If you want peace in your life, make your mind peaceful. To make your mind peaceful you have to sit down in meditation, activate the attention, and smooth down the thinking of the mind.”
“In whose hands do we want to be? By whom and by what do we want our lives to be moved? We want to be instruments and tools in the hands of the Supreme Divinity, the Supreme Satguru. So, we should try to be distributors of His nourishment, which is Light and Love, and share it with True Lovers. That is what we should do if we wish to live a good life: to do good, be good, and be one.”
“When you go very deep into the repetition of the simran. You will understand and you will experience, that the simran are not just words, but every word it’s a level of consciousness. It’s a condensed energy, which has its own peculiarity, each one of the words. So difficult to believe this, but if you go very deep into the constant repetition you will experience it by yourself.”
“So at first we have a blessing, lets say normally it goes like this. when one comes on a spiritual Path, there is an encouragement that comes as a blessing from God. If God wants to keep you on the path, if it is your time to experience something transcendental. Then God will give you a blessing by giving you an experience.”
“Mantra is a helping factor in stilling the mind and focusing the attention. So mantra is/are words of God, names of God and repeating them is like attracting the blessing, the grace of God. So repeating a mantra is like calling on somebody, since these are names of God. So if you repeat these names you are calling this God. Calling to yourself attracting his blessing into your life, into your experience. So that’s the purpose of a mantra.”
“Courage, optimism, and trust will pave our road and be a shelter for our life.”
“We don’t have to wait to leave this world to go into the peace, into the love and beauty of the Divine. We should try to live such a life in which already here in this world we are able to bring into our life this love, this joy, and this peace. So, that’s why seekers of Truth come on the spiritual Path and learn how to do a spiritual practice. So, they may experience while alive, some of that peace, which belongs to the Beyond.”
“You (Baba Sawan singh) said we should pray for truth, so we pray to you for truth. Please allow to us, to realize truth in this very lifetime. Give us the strength to work hard for it. Give us the will. Give us the capacity to sit for long hours of meditation, please allow it. We are poor human beings, we are so limited, the mind is so strong and so powerful. And we are under his control, the mind is carried away by the senses and the senses follow the impulses it get that it receives. And we who are this atama, this surat, this soul, we are dragged like anything by our mind. Which in turn is dragged like anything by the senses. So this human condition is not an easy one, it’s complicated, it’s quite complex. By our own efforts, by our own potential we will never succeed, we are very aware of it. We don’t have the strength, we don’t have the endurance, the perseverance. So please give all of this to us, and more over in spite of ourselves, in spite of our limits, in spite of our wantings or cravings or desires. Make it such that we may realize this truth about which you talk so highly in this song of yours. We are your children, we are your devotees, so don’t make it such that, do not allow that our life passes away without realizing this truth. Send your blessings, send your grace, shower us with grace, shower us with bliss.”
“(Truth) Where do we have to look for it? It’s hidden inside us and it’s very deep down, into the very essence of our being. So we have to reach there. So how do we reach there? We reach there by going within, by doing a spiritual practice, by doing an intense spiritual practice. It’s not just by doing an hour of meditation per day, that’s enough to keep going on, without losing the track. Without losing the path, without getting lost in the world. An hour of meditation per day is just enough to allow us to keep alive, but if we want to really find the truth. Then we have to go through very intense meditation periods. It might be meditation retreats, a bit by ourselves on our own or in the company of the master or the company of other satsangis. But if we want to realize this truth, we have to do alot of meditation. Keep it in mind it doesn’t just come by the way, it’s a very precious something. As we said in the beginning, it is the most precious thing the whole universe. So we really have to seek for it with a sincere, an incredibly sincere heart. An incredibly sincere intention, the intention is the most important thing in life.”
“We have by any means to realize in this lifetime complete union with that spring of Divine Light that springs from the region of Truth. Having this determination is so very important on the spiritual path. Having this self-assurance that I will make it in this lifetime, I will reach there in this lifetime. Because if we convince ourselves that, I will not make it, I’m not able, I won’t succeed then there is no way for us to move on. So it’s very important to have this convention, so why not? I can make it. If other people have been able to, why shouldn’t I be? This was always my attitude on the Path. This full convention right from the beginning I will make it. So I will succeed. And it’s worthwhile anyway, even if you don’t succeed eventually. We get close there, but we don’t get fully there. It’s fine anyway. No problem. But having this enthusiasm, this self-assurance that I’m capable. I’m not a wrecked somebody. I’m incapable. I have all the potential and I can do it. This doesn’t mean that we have to behave arrogantly. No. That’s not the point. We have to be very humble. But have this self-value and self-esteem of ourselves. We don’t miss anything. We are full human beings, and any human being can do it.”
“From this body, we have to learn how to withdraw from it. By flying on the wings of the Light, we can return to the true region or the region of Truth. That’s what Sach Khand means – the region of truth, the plane of truth – where truth prevails, and there is no trace of falsehood or darkness. When we leave this body, this is what happens: we fly at the speed of Light out of this body, and we merge with the Light. This Light may take up the shape or form of a Master, or somebody according to our mental makeup, according to our belief system. But if we don’t have a belief system, if you are just open to welcome whatever comes in whichever way it comes, then it’s just Light, formless Light, which might take endless forms, free of manifesting to us without an imprint which may give to this Light.”
“When we sing the Bhajans, the mind becomes quiet, becomes more peaceful. It creates a kind of atmosphere that helps [us] withdraw completely from the outside and go deeply within. Then we have to keep focusing our glance to open the horizon, which means to open the inner vision. So then we have to push ourselves farther on beyond this body, beyond this mind, to discover what truth is. And then, out of us will be left joy and weeping, which will be given to us as a gift for daring to go beyond, to push ourselves farther on, beyond this body, beyond this mind, to discover what reality is.”
“We’re so stuck in this outer world, in the situations of life, into all those things that attract our attention, our interest, those things that form our life. Unless we free ourselves from all these, or at least beginning from some of these, we won’t be able to move forward spiritually. Because we have a certain field of action and we human beings can have certain things, a certain amount of things, kind of more. We have a certain given time. And either we use this time for doing certain things or we do others. So if we want to do spiritual practice and consequently evolve spiritually, then we will have to give up some of the involvement with the world with the senses, and the activities that common human beings normally have. We will have to dedicate time to spiritual practice to expand our consciousness, uplift our consciousness, and experience something, different, something which may give much more of a meaning to our life.”
“We may be addicted or dependent on substances. We can be slaves of the five decoits as Sant Ajaib Singh used to say, which are lust, anger, greed, attachment, and egoism. We can add jealousy, vanity, hate, and so on. Or we can try to develop dependence or an addiction to the Divine Light. So as the person who is addicted to something, is all the time thinking about his addiction and waiting for it. So the devotee of the Light should be, all the time, thinking about what I’m going to see in the meditation and enjoying the inner bliss that comes from the Divine Light. So once we develop this kind of love, passion, and longing for communion with the Divine, then we are free from any bonds, from any dependence. Love and devotion for the Divine, which we don’t have to buy, which we don’t have to find elsewhere, but within us, it is such a freedom. Because you can just be blissful and ecstatic with yourself. You don’t need anything else coming from outside. You can well be alone and still be happy and blissful. So this is Supreme Freedom. This is Moksha. This is liberation. So we should try to develop this kind of love for the Divine, which means we don’t need anything else. It’s just happy with ourself and with our Beloved within us, and it’s always there, never going away.”
“God is within you. You can find Him just inside of you. In the very center of your being, there is this shining light, this diamond that is the divinity. And you will only find it truly there.”
“We have to go from me, I, my ego, my person to God, to the Universe, to all creation, and expand. And not just as an idea, but with facts. That’s why Seva is so much praised and talked about on the Path: when we do something selflessly, then we expand. Master Kirpal always said that when you give, your hand goes from you, from your body to outside. It expands. When you take, you take it from a certain point and take it to your body, so it contracts you.”
“We may have a peaceful mind and an agitated mind, full of worries, anxieties, and fears. By its nature, the mind won’t get to peace. The mind likes worries, anxieties, and fears. So we have to make an effort to bring peace into our within. Therefore, we have to direct our attention towards something that brings peace, love, and well-being. So if we direct our attention towards the thing we love, the Divine Being, which is beauty, love, peace, and bliss then that’s the way of counteracting the action of the mind.”