The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“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!”
“If we come on the Path and we really catch hold the teachings of the Master, because Master Kirpal used to say “Respect my words more than my body!” means my teachings more than myself, because that is what saves us. If we take the teachings seriously and we really stick to them and live by them then there is a possibility.”
“Why we do come on the Path? We come on the Path, because we want to get out of this wheel of transmigration, so called Samsara or Chaurasi, the wheel of birth and rebirth. So, how do we do this? How may we accomplish this? We get out of it by going into the Center, by reaching the very center of life, which is the Divinity. So, how do we reach there? How can a man accomplish such a very high task? By ourselves we would never be able to accomplish this! If we have a good luck to meet a Perfect Living Master in our life, take Initiation from Him or Her and with great enthusiasm, energy and will we do our spiritual practice and experience while we are alive the process of dying while living only then we can accomplish this.”
“There is no way for we human beings to be pulled out from our desperate condition unless we tune in with the Word of the Master. That means with the Shabad Power, the Naam Power. This is what saves our life, gives us the strength to change direction and behaviour and understand what is Real and what is unreal. So, we sit in meditation for tuning in with this Word of Gurudeva, the Light within, the Sound within.”
“We should always be looking for the Supreme Reality. We should always try to transcend this physical condition.”
“When you have seen and touched the Reality, even once in your life, you will never be able to forget and say it’s not there, it was my imagination. So, it’s very important to come on a spiritual Path, a Path which gives you a practice, by which you may by the grace of God transcend the human condition and touch what lies beyond this physical and material world.”
“It’s ok to acquire different kinds of knowledge, but it’s fundamental to understand who we are as human beings, what is this physical reality, this material world and what is the world beyond this physical world.”
“Thoughts have an incredible power. According to the thoughts that whirl in our mind we have consequent emotional reactions in our body. Therefore we should always make an effort, try and try hard to think in positive terms, in terms of optimism. Sometimes it’s very difficult, because we go through difficult periods. Difficult because of other situations or difficult because of inner situations of ours. But we have to try and try again to be optimistic and positive.”
“It’s always very good and wise to be optimistic, no matter what happens.”
“Once we have by the grace of our Satguru a spiritual experience then we don’t have to just pack it up and hide it somewhere, we have to keep it fresh, refresh every day through doing Bhajan and Simran.”
“What we perceive of life is just the surface, what lies deep into it we don’t perceive. In order to perceive we have to go deep into meditation, open the Inner Eye, get out of this physical consciousness and transcend into the Beyond then we see the Reality. And what we see is that this world is not material at all, it is just Light, vibrating Light!”
“Master tells us, you become aware that this world that you know, that you have experienced up to now it’s pure illusion, Reality is just behind it. It is like we look at the sea and we see the surface, the waves and we think that’s the sea, but that’s not true, the sea is so much more, what lies in the deepness of those waters, so many things, so much life is there, but we don’t see.”
“If we don’t get tired and fed up with the mechanism of life and our habits we never find the way for our real well-being.”
“It’s only when at some point we really get into troubles either emotionally, mentally, physically that we get fed up with this play of life and we decide to give up so many things and look for something better, something Real, something Higher.”
“People who step beyond either in meditation or with a near to death experience they declare that the amount of knowledge that was revealed to them in just a few seconds it was just incredibly much. So, the possibility of acquiring the Real Knowledge it’s there only if you step beyond the sensory perception and the mental activity.”
“We come on the Path to learn how to see the Reality beyond the illusion and it’s a great blessing to step into this other dimension. This is what really gives meaning and sense to life.”
“Why do we come on the Path? Why do we look for Truth? Because we are convinced, at least we are beginning to be convinced that this world, which we are aware of is not the whole Reality.”
“Let’s be brave, let’s be wise and pray so that the Supreme Being may use us to bring joy and well-being into the life of anybody we meet.”
“What does a real devotee of a Master says?
Bind me to your chain, let me be with You, let me stay with You. Let me follow You for the rest of my life. Let it be that my mind does not taken away from You.
Why this? Because when I look into Your eyes every trouble, every pain flies away.”