
The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“We should also try to become beggars for His mercy and blessings, and we should become claimants of His mercy and blessings. How can we do that? We can do that when we obey Him, when we work according to His message and teachings, and when we do the practices regularly which He taught us when He initiated us.”
“Regarding your physical difficulties, you know that all physical ailments are the result or reaction to past karma and must be borne willingly. Yet much of the severity and duration is toned down by the loving grace of the gracious Master-Power working overhead. The barest minimum which cannot be dispensed should be borne gladly with the aid of the gracious protection of the Master.“
“Whenever Satguru comes to this world, He always teaches how to fight against this Kal power. The biggest enemy in this world of all mankind is our mind. There is nobody else who is the enemy of man. So we are not to bow down to our enemy. We are to fight against him. You be brave and fight with mind. So the weapon to fight against the mind is the Naam. Satguru is always ready to help you. Remember Satguru, every difficulty will be removed.”
“If we have the good luck to meet a Master, in which all the foreseen qualities converge, and all of them are to our liking, then we can understand ourselves as the luckiest people on earth. You see, just the fact of meeting any Master is good luck. A Master is of great help in both the life in the world and the spiritual life. He inspires us with his shining life, deeply, inwardly turned, his passion for God is contagious, his faith in Him is absolute, he is a living example of detachment from the world and of worldly matters, a great meditator for whom sitting in meditation for a week at a stretch, is a great pleasure. Thus the company of any Master is a great help.”
“A diligent seeker after truth wakes up early in the morning, prepares himself, wakes up by any means that work for him, sings the praises of God and sits in meditation. In this way he nourishes his inner life. If we don’t do this, then we dry up and die spiritually.”
“We have to be always optimist and always look for the Light and try not to cling to the darkness.”
“The inner journey is one that all the Masters advise us to take. Because it’s the only way that we can change from ordinary human beings into special human beings, from physical human beings into Beings of Light. If we take this remedy we will be deeply transformed, our consciousness will be deeply changed. Consequently, our needs will be deeply transformed, our perception of life will be changed, and our perspective on life will also change.”
“Whichever situation we go through in life, whichever period we are going through we just be positive; it is a transit. Life it’s a continuous and eternal movement and we watch this movement happening and we try not to identify with it as much as possible.“
“Life is an alternating phenomenon of joys and sorrows and we take it just the way it comes. We try to be equipoised, balanced people and we try not to identify with the phenomenon as much as possible.”
“Masters want us to become complete human beings, beings capable of selfcontrol, capable of choosing what to do in life, and not just being carried away by events, by what happens, without any capacity to do what’s right and to refuse what’s wrong. Otherwise we make our life more and more complicated, worse and worse, because everything tends to reinforce itself.”
“If we follow the mind, we will become full of bad qualities, all those factors that makes us suffer. If we take control over the mind and we move towards the repetition of the holy names of God, then that is where we go. We go towards well-being, harmony, blissfulness and eventually ecstasy.”
“Along the Path we can only take a great leap if we become intoxicated with His Love, with His Devotion. We can only do it if we completely give ourselves up to it, if we surrender completely to His Inner Presence, Inner Call, and we leave behind all logic, all efort, all reasoning, and we just go into a complete state of silence, of surrender.”
“The Path is a path of love, which we may pass through only if we are able to develop a very intense love for our Supreme Lord, our Supreme God, our Sat Guru. There is no other way to pass through the Path. Neither knowledge, discrimination, scientifc research, logic nor reason will take us there.”
“We should keep trying, never get tired, never give up, always do our spiritual practices, and always try to improve, always try expose ourselves to the benefcial atmosphere of Satsang. We should always keep the company of the Master, meditate with Him. This will help a lot. In this way, by the end of our lives, we will be diferent from what we were when we came into this life.”
“The attention is not a mental faculty, it’s a spiritual faculty, and if we want to switch of the mind, we have to activate this attentive faculty. When we are attentive and fully concentrated, then the mind does not think. Thinking starts when the mind stops being focused, attentive, concentrated.”
“We may try to make our life as smooth as possible; that’s our duty, but it’s only by His grace that this may happen.”
“Any situation we face in life, the only real weapon we have is pray!”
“Everything that happens is a lesson from which we need to learn something and be transformed into what we are meant to become in this life. The attitude with which we face things makes quite a difference. If we are peaceful when we take on a challenge, and we watch it, learn from it, then we improve. If we react to it wrongly, then we become increasingly stressed, and eventually we become diseased.”
„We seek refuge at the Satguru, who is like a shelter that protects us from so many dangers of life. Master Kirpal used to say, “When you are going to the refuge of the Master the most painful situations will be turned into easy ones”, just because of being under His protection. So, this is one of the reasons why also we human beings should go to Satguru, because of this protection. Why do we need protection? Because our mind is taking a stray all the time and causing so many troubles to us; leading us in directions, which are not healthy and not for our ultimate good. So, we go to the shelter of the Satguru where He gives the medicine of the Name of God.”
“Grieving in my heart, I appeal to you: Do not throw away this life, and do not live in error; be done with the past, and begin your regeneration today.”