The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“Master Kirpal used to say “Prayer succeeds there where all the human efforts fail”. So, let’s pray! We don’t have to pray for the things of the world, we don’t need to. If we do and focus on our spiritual work then all what we really need is granted to us.”
“When our mind is wandering here and there it’s not focused on the Beloved, it’s not focused on the object of our devotion, just wondering, lost. So, we have to do our best to stop this wandering of the mind, at least reduce it and when we go deep into meditation stop it completely.”
“Every real devotee, every real honest, true seeker of Truth wants to actualize to come to that point in life in which we are always absorbed in the presence of the Lord.”
“We have to develop a ruling passion for something transcendental, something spiritual, something that goes beyond body and mind. And in this endeavour, in this experiment there are a lot of up and downs, there is a lot of fight with ourselves, with our lower tendencies, with our habits and we have to keep facing this fight and keep going. With this certainty that eventually we will be succeed.”
“Do your best to be happy as much as you can no matter what happens. We want to succeed in not being crushed by any situation in life, we want to survive and survive happily with joy.”
“Let’s keep trying our best and let’s keep performing those actions, which help us to keep improving. So, what are those things, which allow us to keep improving? Naam, Satsang, Darshan, Simran and Bhajan. So, doing our spiritual practice every day without fail, listen to the wise teachings of the Master, being in the company of the Master as much as you can that will help you to keep improving and keep going on the Path.”
“We should try our best to be better people, overcome the faults, overcome the shortcomings, tendencies. So, we should have a closed watch on ourselves, on our thinking process, on our words, our actions and right away come into play and change the direction. We all know it’s not easy, but we should never get tired of trying and trying again. Because we all have a dignity, and if we have a dignity then we want that our person be an excellent person. It doesn’t matter if people recognize us as such, it doesn’t matter if the world recognize us as such, but we want this to be for ourselves.”
“We have to deal with this life and we have to try to make it as pleasant and as meaningful as possible. So, what it is that makes it really fruitful and meaningful and that allows to achieve that Self-Realization that so much we want. It is living this other aspect of life, which is the unseen one, the one we cannot put our hands on, it is not material, but spiritual. This spiritual side, this is something that we may experience only because of grace, never because of our merits. So, for this we have to seek the help of a competent Master, that is so very important. Somebody who has gone through this experiment and knows all the steps along the way.”
“Love and forgiveness should be the law that ruled this world, not cruelty, revenge, hate. So, we want to be compassionate beings. This should be our mission to be able to share with everyone some of our spiritual realization. So, let’s not play with life, life is a serious matter. And a real seeker of Truth must be a vehicle, an instrument of the Almighty to bring something good in this world.”
“You can see how far is this Humanity from Truth, from that condition that makes everybody to be a happy being. We are stuck all these fake ideas. We have to broaden our point of view. We don’t belong to any country or any religion, we belong to the Universe.”
“Our mind creates so many walls, between we human beings, between ourselves what we want to be and what we are. We want to be in a certain way, we would like to be holy people, full of joy, full of bliss. But because of these walls that we have inside of us, created by our own psyche, by what we are, the way we are, we are not able to get to it. So, we have to crumble down all these walls, all these impediments, all what divides us from the totality. We are stuck in ego, in personality what we think we are. But we are not what we think we are. We are Divine in nature. We have to move towards Oneness instead of separateness. And we are separated, closed between walls. So, we have to crumble down all these walls, we have to expand our consciousness, we want to be broad and huge beings.”
“The real seeker of Truth is not afraid to facing life. He is capable of going through it, face it and win the battle. And mind you when you are seeking of Truth the challenges might be even more acute, more strong than when you are just living an ordinary life. Because you are meant to become a super human, not just an ordinary human. But don’t be afraid you are always trust that God is at your side and will always gives you the strength to face and win.”
“The purpose of spiritual life is to live a peaceful, joyful life in communion with God and share with others this joy. Then this will give us the strength to face the challenges of life. Because life is full of challenges, but challenges are good, because they are training ground on which we are trained to become strong people. With no challenges, no strength. So, it’s very important to face challenges in life, that’s why God gives us challenges. Because He wants us to become strong people. But we don’t have to allow these challenges to make ourselves crumble up. We have to be the winners. Whichever challenge comes in life it’s a challenge to make our spiritual muscles strong. So, we face it with courage, with bravery and we try to become always stronger and stronger by any challenge.”
“Let’s try to be such people who do their best to uplift their life, their consciousness, to experience as much as possible this Divine reality and eventually wherever we reach, wherever we get let’s just be very happy with it.”
“We should develop the attitude of contentment. Happy with what I have, happy with what I have been given and I am given. Why should I have more? If God gives me this much then I’m happy with this.”
“The Path to the Divine is a Path of love. The Master is the one that loves us first, then we love Him in return. And this generates more and more this love, which becomes so intense as intense as God is. Because God eventually is just love. From this our perspective might seem difficult to accept, because so many troubles in this world, which were created by this God. But eventually once we raise above this body, this world, this mind then what is left? It is just love. On the other side the Supreme juice, what they call Amrit it is just love.”
“On this Path having a Master is the greatest blessing. Maulana Rumi used to say “Don’t go on this Path without a guide, without a Master. You won’t succeed, simply.” Because we need somebody to start the fire. A lighted candle may light up so many other candles. If there is not a lighted candle no other candle can be lighted. And it’s a matter of transmission. Spirituality is a matter of transmission. There must be somebody that transmits it to us, to conveys it to us, it’s a gift. So, we have to be humble and seek the help somebody who can help. And keep sticking to that somebody, seek His company all your life, always whenever possible meditate with that person that will make your spiritual adventure successful.”
“If we try to come in touch with the Light within us then it will pull us upwards. And the more we go upwards the more blissful we will be, the more intoxicated we will be, the more wonderful we will feel. So, we have to make an effort in this direction, because what goes downwards it easily goes, what goes upwards it doesn’t go easily, we have to really work for it. But this work and efforts are well paid, there is a reward. And the reward is that we are transformed from common human beings into Divine beings, from beings of darkness into beings of Light.”
“People understand that they are happy when they enjoy sensual pleasures, because that’s what they know, most of the people. But for that you have to pay a price all the time, always. Nothing is given for free. And when we push anything to an extreme what we get is just the opposite. So, a sober life, with no going into extremes is the way of the wise people. Not exaggerating with anything, midway.”
“Whenever there is a problem, whenever there is a difficult situation we have to try to learn from it. Whenever we make a mistake we try not to repeat it to change for the better. I know it’s not easy, but we have to keep trying.”