The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“If we say that we will not go to school and that the teacher should do our work — how is that possible? It is the student’s duty to go to school, and after that it is the schoolmaster’s duty to teach him. Master will never come in the nine openings, so you have to vacate the nine openings and reach the place which you are shown by the Master — behind and between the two eyebrows. So it is the duty of the disciple to reach that place behind the two eyebrows after controlling the outgoing faculties. There you will see how Master is working.
So everybody has to meditate and they should earn their meditation — Shabd Naam — and always feel Master Kirpal’s presence at every place. See Him in all; He is sitting in all.”
“Kabir says, “I have not seen anyone who has taken birth and is happy.” So ask anybody, you see. He’ll say he has something against his wishes. Saint Tulsi Das who was a Saint and Guru Nanak both say the same–“The world is all maya.” Tulsi Das says, “All are unhappy on account of either physical body, illness, or for want of money. Or by the cruelty of mind–all complain against mind.” Then He says, “Is there any remedy for this?” He says, “Yes, there is one remedy. Just sit at the Feet of a Saint.” He lets you know why you are unhappy. We are conscious entities. So we can become happy only when we come into contact with the Higher Consciousness, you see. Our soul is all wisdom, eternal, all joy, all bliss. If our soul comes in contact with the Oversoul or God, only then is there happiness.”
“Having received the protection of a God-realized man, do you think He would ever forget you? The Master always holds His disciples in the innermost heart center.”
“In order to cross over this ocean of life, and in order to remove all the diseases, all the pains which we have, especially the pain or the disease of birth and death, the Naam of the perfect Master is the only medicine. It works like an herb which renews life – it gives you the life again.
Saints and Mahatmas, whether They were born in the East or the West, or whether They were born in the Persian countries, regardless of which age They came into this world and what language They spoke, all the Masters have the same goal, They all have the same destination. All the Masters are the drops of the same ocean – that very ocean from which our soul has come out. Guru Nanak Sahib says that there is one God, there is one Will of God, and with that Will of God He has created the entire creation.”
“A man is not what he appears to be. Everyone has his background of past karmas. Your past karmas have now ripened up and the help is at hand. Food is for the hungry and water is for the thirsty. The reactions of the past lives karma are bearing forth fruit, and what you have been so far is the result of all that.”
“All secrets, all realities, and all facts which exist are within our human body. Whatever we see outside, God has created within also.
It is like the radio: people play music, play drums, dance, sing and do all sorts of things-and we listen to all this through the radio. If anyone thinks they can break the radio and take out the dancers, singers and musicians, that is not possible; because they are not physically there; only their voices are broadcast through there.
Our body is like a radio set, within which all the Khands and Brahmands (higher planes) and the entire creation, seen or unseen, is lying. Not in their physical form, of course; they are in their astral or causal form. And if anybody thinks that by operating on the body he can take out the Khands and Brahmands, that is not possible. Just as the radio will not work until it is connected with a battery or with power and tuned to a station, in the same way if our body is not connected with the “battery” and is not tuned properly, we cannot know about the inner world, the Khands and Brahmands.
Who connects our “battery” and what is it? Our battery is the Shabd, the Power of God. And the Masters who have manifested the Power in them, connect our “set,” our soul, with that Power, that “battery.” And when we are in tune, then we can easily get messages and things from the Brahmand.”
“Overcoming and giving up outward tendencies, stilling the mind and dying while alive is not easy. The inner gate opens only when the outer gates are closed. There is no other way to get in. People wish to continue to run out through the outer gates and also wish to get into the inner. This is impossible. Two things cannot happen at the same time. One is to be given up to achieve the other.”
“There will be moments in the course of developing love for the Master when one, judging from one’s own limited understanding, doubts the validity of the Master’s instructions, but such moments are only tests to make our self-surrender more complete and more secure, and he who passes through these tests successfully, will one day radiate with the glory of God.”
“God lives within us but the soul doesn’t know that the Oversoul is within. That is why we search for Him on mountains and in temples and mosques. Many people go on very difficult pilgrimages. It is just as though the needle were in search of iron, not knowing that she herself is made out of iron. It is as though the fish in the water is thirsty, not knowing that she needs only to open her mouth. In the same way God is within us, as the butter is in the milk, and the fragrance is in the flower. But we don’t know this and therefore we search for Him outside. If anything is lost in our house but we go on searching for it outside, how can we find it? So this world is not our home. Our soul is entangled here.”
“Ever since creation started, the mind … has not gone within, nor has it found peace and rest. The task, therefore, is difficult, but it can be successfully completed, and this is the object of our life. If man is the highest achievement of creation, his responsibility is great also. Man is born so that he may merge his soul in its Source and not be born a second time (in this world). The greatest service one can render is to merge his soul, by freeing it from the attachment of mind and matter, in that Ocean of Peace and Bliss, of which it is a particle or drop.”
“True love, wisdom and power are the greatest gifts that one gets by basking in the sunshine of Heaven’s Light.”
“If you watch your present moment, then everything is all right. If you don’t care, sometimes for hours you’re oblivious and in those vacant hours there’s so much trouble that comes up which affects your meditations. So when you sit for meditation, forget the past, forget the future; live in the living present. This is the one thing that will give you success in your meditations. But the vacant hours in which you’ve not kept the mind occupied with some constructive thought affect your meditation.
So that is the remedy that accounts for all these things: If you would pass your every hour in peace, with no ill will against anybody and no attachment to anybody, if you can pass each hour like that for one day, then continuously for some days, no such ramifications of mind will come up to affect your meditations. We are frittering away our moments of life in suchlike pursuits. Kabir says, ‘Make each breath you take the offering to your Master.’ Do you follow what I have said? Every breath you take, make it an offering to your Master. This is very valuable, Kabir says, and we fritter away a fortune. If a dying man wishes to stay for a few minutes longer, he cannot.”
“Millions of happinesses, millions of treasures, millions of peace, millions of divisions and the grand divisions of this creation, Khands and Brahmands are within the human being. Master Sawan Singh Ji used to say that if a doctor tells you that he has done a lot of surgery but he has not found any of these things within the human body, that is not true. All these things lie within us, but they are hidden behind the veil of our mind. Mind is hiding all these things from us, and they are present within us in their astral form. When you lift up that veil, then all these things – these riches, these treasures, this peace and happiness – are within you and you can get them.”
“A disciple who does not see in his Master the Power-of-God is not yet a true disciple. He is yet on probation and continues to be so until he sees in him the glory of God; and this, in the true sense, happens only when the Master reveals His Radiant Form within the disciple.”
“When we fortunately meet a perfect Master, then giving up the company of the mind and the organs of senses, we should love that Master wholeheartedly, sincerely and honestly. Because when we will love the Master, then our attachment to the worldly things will decrease and it will become easier for us to go within. So that is why, when fortunately we get the company of such a Master, we should love Him; we should follow His commandments without having any fear. Without having any doubts, we should go within and connect ourselves with the Naam within. He has come into this world to shower so much grace upon us. He resides within us and from within He showers grace upon us. He connects us with that Power within for which we have been yearning and for which we have been searching for a very long time. So that is why, if God Almighty showers grace upon us and if He brings us to a perfect Master, we should take advantage of that grace.”
“Perseverance combined with full faith in the gracious Master Power working overhead will one day remove all obstacles, and your cherished goal will be achieved.”
“There are very few fortunate people who ask for the Master from Him; most of the dear ones who do the devotion of the Lord are doing it for fulfillment of their own desires, which their minds have created. Only a few people do the devotion of the Lord only for the Lord Himself. The other people obey their minds and do whatever the mind tells them in order to fulfill their desire. If it is not fulfilled by their efforts, they ask the Master to fulfill it and that is why we prepare the traps for ourselves in which we get stuck and suffer. You see, we have come to this Path to make ourselves better; we were supposed to improve ourselves and rise above the desires of the world. But instead of that, obeying our mind we started asking our Master to fulfill our desires, which our mind has created. We are creating traps for ourselves. Think about this patiently in your hearts and you will see what you are doing. Are we doing the devotion of the Lord, or are we doing the devotion of the mind?”
“Keep the sweet remembrance of the Master, pray to the Master and He will take you across on the ship of love. Because there is only one material to make the ship that takes us from the physical world to the Divine world and that is love!”
“If we keep thinking about the Master, if we keep remembering all those beautiful time that we spent with the Master, all those beautiful moments, precious blessings that we got in the company of the Master, precious Darshans and precious upliftments. If we keep remembering those then we will know that the Path is real, it really works and it will definitely work for us.”
“Let’s take the teachings of the Master to our heart, let’s be honest, let’s be truthful, let’s do our best to put them into practice and make our life wonderful. We don’t want to be happy just with an ordinary life, we want an extraordinary life!”