The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“The Simran that we repeat are the names of God, and there is no difference between the name and the named One. So, if we keep repeating the Simran eventually we unite with the named One. With the One from whom these names stand for. It’s a way of making this inner journey. It might be other ways also, but this is the most common way in all the spiritual traditions. Japa, mantra repetition, and Simran is always the main practice. Singing the Bhajans is more or less the same. We are singing praises to God. It’s love, it’s devotion. So, these are practices by which we attract into our awareness, into our life the grace and presence of God. And it’s a super protective shield. If you are in remembrance of God so many problems of life, just disappear. And our life runs as smoothly as possible. As we progress on the Path, life becomes more and more harmonious, fluid, and melodious. This is like making music. When you go deep into it and you catch the wave, then rhythm becomes melody and harmony. So, if we want to be our life a wonderful life then we have to engage in spiritual practice.”
“If we want to achieve Truth, what do we have to do? We have to associate with good people who are working in this direction. All the people who had become great people in this world they have always associated with like minded people. And if you are lucky enough to meet a real Master, a Master who had dedicated all His life to this quest, with this practice then that’s the most lucky thing we may get in our lives, we may experience in our life.”
“Satsang is very precious, because we just point on what is important about life. So, we try to understand what is the Truth of existence and we try to find ways to get close to that. Let’s say that above the illusion of duality or Maya, there is a Supreme Truth that above this apparent falsehood and negativity that we see in this world, there is also somewhere up there a plane of beauty, Truth, love, Reality. So, we want to get to that! We would like to reach that condition in which these excellent qualities prevail in our lives. So, how do we do it? We do it by following a Path of self-discipline, self-control in which we will become the Masters of ourselves, of our life, of our condition and we straighten it up.”
“In our spiritual Path falling in love, it’s fundamental, very important. If we don’t fall in love, then we are loveless. A spiritual Path is possible to treat only if we are lucky enough to fall in love. Meditation is possible to do it only if we love doing it. So, it’s the matter of the heart, it’s a matter of liking doing something. We have to become spiritually inclined. If we are not spiritually inclined, then we are inclined towards the world and the pleasures of the world, and we do that. But if you want to raise above this morbid human condition then we have to fall in love with the Light of God manifested into the Guru. That’s how it works. Falling in love with the Absolute, Formless, the Infinite it’s very difficult. If we fall in love with then Guru, then by and by we fall in love with the Absolute, Formless, Nameless.”
“The bhajan singing or holy songs that we sing there meant to create a charged up atmosphere, and they’re also meant to increase our receptivity to His holy presence. These two factors are very important for spiritual practice. The changed up atmosphere and our receptivity. The more we are receptive to it, the easier it is to break the chain of thoughts and raise above body consciousness. So, in my experience it’s always very beneficial to begin the practice with 2-3 of these holy songs, so has to create, charge up the atmosphere and it’s a scientific fact that by singing these songs all the fluids of the body, all the cells of the body become charged up, harmonized, transformed. This body is made up 70 % of water and especially the liquids are very easily transform by this charged up atmosphere with comes from singing these holy songs. So, that’s very beneficial at the physical level first of all and then at the spiritual level. All of our being drives to benefit, it’s improved, boosted up, it’s a healing process.”
“The purpose why we come on a spiritual Path and do the spiritual practice is to realize the Supreme Truth. And for doing so the meeting with someone who has had already this experience is so very fundamental, so very important. Any job we want to learn, any skill we want to learn so important to have the guidance, the help, the example of somebody who is skilled in that craft. Similarly, on the spiritual Path, in order to keep going, in order to make it successful we need the help, the inspiration, the guidance that comes from a living Master.”
“The Path works if we involve ourselves with all the aspects of the Path. And the most important aspect of the Path, the most important practice is being in the company of the Master, attending His retreats and meditate with Him, that’s the most helpful factor.”
“When you are in love, even romantically, sentimentally you don’t need to do anything, you are just blissful. Even more when you are in love with the Divine, when you are in love with your Satguru then you don’t really need to do anything to have a wonderful meditation. You just close your eyes and you feel that all your body saturated with the bliss of ecstasy. And you don’t need anything else, you don’t need to do anything, you just have to let go, surrender and strengthen this perception and it just happens by itself. You don’t need to provoke it, you just need to surrender and let go and you just fall into this pool of nectar.”
“When we have love laden devotion and if our devotion it’s so saturated with love, then life it’s a poem, life it’s a rose, it will be a fantastic experience. So, when we have those moments in life in which we have this love saturated devotion or this devotion saturated with love then those are the real moments that we should keep remembering, because they won’t stay forever. So, those are the precious memories, the jewels that adorn our life.”
“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.”