Quotes Collection

“Master Kirpal used to say that what one person has done, we can all do. So why not just go ahead and do it? We can all become great beings, beings full of Light, full of joy, full of Love. It’s there for everyone, but we have to want it, and to give it priority above everything else. Only then will it work. Even if you are unable to be a great meditator and do a lot of practice, whatever you are able to do is going to help you, because you start from where you are. Each one of us has a certain potential, and how far are able to go in any field of life is determined by our potential. In this case too, everyone has to start what he has. You can’t be someone else, possessing his or her strength or capacity. All you have is your own capacity.
So, we start with the potential we have and try to develop it. That is what I did. In my life, I have always spent time with spiritual people. I have held retreats, I do my practice, I spent time with my Masters and in this way, by and by, you get into it very deeply. It becomes yours—obviously. There are some who say that only people from a certain part of the world can realise this, that only people belonging to a certain race or a certain religion can realise this, but that’s not true. Every human being has spiritual potential. Spirituality is not only for Indians, or Japanese, or Americans or Europeans, it’s for everybody. It is there for everyone!”

„We look for a Path, we go to a Master, we take initiation then we have to do our practice and keep nurturing our spiritual perception; the seed, which has been planted at initiation. Keep watering it through our meditation and let it grow.”

“We should make an effort in our life to get close to the Truth. So, we should seek for the Divine grace. This is the greatest purpose of life, to get the grace of God. That is what makes our life complete.”

„We can have joy and peace in life if we accept life the way it comes.”

“Life is never difficult if we love what we are doing. Life becomes difficult when we don’t like what we are doing.”

“We have to become receptive to the Higher Power. It’s always there, it’s in the air, it’s inside of us, it’s in the space. But we don’t perceive it, because our attention, our consciousness is stuck to our body, to our senses. We have to withdraw from that to go within, deep inside our consciousness, and reach this very bright luminous consciousness.”

“This Path is called Guru Bhakti, Guru Mat. It is the Path in which we try to perceive the Divinity of God manifested in our Master.”

“The Masters of the spiritual path called Surat Shabd Yoga say that the expressive power of God has two aspects: Light and Sound. It’s analogous to a natural phenomenon like lightening, where first you see the flash of light and then you hear the thunderclap. These are the two sides of the power of God manifesting as Light and Sound, which has been called the Voice of Silence, the Music of the Spheres, and so on.”

“I’ve seen so many people come and go on the spiritual path. They have lots of experiences in the beginning — quite a spiritual awakening — but then after one, two, three or four years, their consciousness goes back to its usual state, and they lose their spiritual awareness. Spirituality is something we have to keep nourishing daily, just as we nourish our body daily. We give food to our body, so too, spiritually, we have to keep nurturing our soul with the Light of God. Meditation brings into contact with the Light of God. We switch of the mind, the thinking process, and try to find the Inner Light within.”

“Any sincere seeker of Truth should have the pining to become one with the Absolute. Only this way the Path works, only this way we keep progressing on the Path. Otherwise, we maybe on the Path for twenty, thirty or forty years, but if we never experience this incredible longing for God then nothing or very few really happens. So, a person may come on the Path with this incredible longing and have right away incredible experiences. On the other hand a person might be on the Path for many years and never experiencing this incredible longing then nothing really happens. So, we go in the company of the Masters to develop, to be contaiged with this longing for God. Most of the human beings by themselves achieve nothing. It is only when we have a good luck and spending time with a Master soul that something meaningful happens.”

“There is nothing in this world which we can say is equal to the meditation of Naam. Only those who meditate on Naam get high status, and only those who merge themselves into Naam get liberation.”

“Please note – an ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.”

“Only those with very good fortune have the company of Saints and Masters. And when we go in Their company, and when we start serving them, They will tell us to do meditation on Shabd Naam. And when we start meditating on Shabd Naam, by Their grace we start taking advantage of being in Their company.”

“Man has not to exert himself, except in molding himself ethically and morally to that climax of love, sincerity and humility, which will produce the necessary state of receptivity in him. Everything else is in the hands of the Master.”

“We realize the goodness of a tree only when we eat its fruit. In the same way, only those who have obeyed the commandments of the Master know how much one enjoys the fruit of obeying the commandments of the Master.”

“So the Guru will love His disciples because it is He who has given birth to them in the inner way.”

“Whether you sit in the meditation you should be sitting with a quiet mind, without any worldly fantasies or thoughts. Your Simran should be going on constantly. Before you sit in the meditation you should make sure that you don’t have any other important thing for which your mind would take you out of meditation. Because it is the habit of the mind that when anyone sits for meditation, he makes him remember things which happened hundreds of years ago, and he brings many thoughts within you. He may remind you of many different things which you are supposed to do. So that is why I say that before you sit in meditation make sure that you don’t have to attend to any other work which can be used by your mind as an excuse to take you out of meditation. You should always do your meditation refusing your mind and not listening to him.”

“Spiritual science is very definite and whoever, even the vilest of the vile, follows it is changed for the better.”

“Never understand meditation as a burden. Do it lovingly. The work which we do lovingly we become successful in it.”

“All talents inherited as a result of past karma are good provided they are utilized for attainment of spiritual progress by regular meditations. Everybody comes to this world with certain instincts and impulses which can be harnessed for spiritual development under competent guidance. It is the single-minded devotion of the initiate which should be developed carefully and should be considered as the best of Godly gifts.”