Quotes Collection

„God Himself knows the condition of humanity. He is not dreaming. He knows very well how humanity is, so He doesn’t expect much more than humanity’s potential. We should always try for more, we should always try our best and try to take advantage of the opportunity or occasion to come on the Path, to have a Master and to spend time with somebody who has really given His life fully to the teachings, to the practice – trying to make it a fact, a reality in His life. It’s great good fortune, because you do not find many people in this life, in a world like this.”

“Once we have a transcendental experience, we have to try to bring it into our lives, to transform our lives, because experience in itself doesn’t have much value if we don’t change our lives, if we don’t bring into our environment, into our relationships, if we don’t adopt a different way of living, a different way of relating to anything with regard to life.

If we want the Truth to be of any use, we must live it in our daily lives. So that is how the experiences we have on the Spiritual Path become a fact in our lives. They don’t just remain inner experiences that we had once but that we don’t apply in our lives. We have to be able to show, through every tiny part of our lives, every big and less big fact of our lives, that we have had some kind of special experience. We have to be able to show it through what’s around us, the environment in which we live, the way we take care of things, the way we are able to apply our attention to any tiny or enormous thing in our lives. We really have to show that we have incredible self-control, and then we will be able to take care of the most important things of our lives, and the less important things in the same way, because for us everything will be a manifestation of God. For us everything will be a manifestation of our Guru, of our Master, so we will take care of everything.”

“The transformation will happens on the Path if we keep following it, if we keep exposing ourselves to the radiance of God, to the color of Naam. By and by this will transform us by doing our meditation when we are coming in touch with the Light within us, by doing the Simran, by singing the Bhajans. Gradually all of these goes deep into our bodily tissues, into our cells and we get transformed. Because this is not something, which stays outside of us! The radiance of God goes deeper and deeper into our cells, into the very atoms that compose our body and gradually all of our being, bodily included, mind included, everything becomes transformed.

So, consequently we become like broader beings, much wilder beings, no jailed anymore into this ego trap, in which we identify ourselves by our actions, by our doings, by claiming that “I do this”. “It’s me”. So, this illusion by and by fades away, because we are shown again and again that we don’t do anything, He does everything!“

“The spiritual transmission always happens mostly through the eyes! That is why on this Path is given so much importance to Darshan.”

“When the clouds fall from the sky as rain, it’s difficult to believe that eventually all of this water will end up in the ocean again because it may fall so far away from the ocean, on the mountains and on dry land, here and there, everywhere. But that’s its origin, so it goes back there. It begins flowing, firstly as streams, riverlets, canals and then it eventually becomes rivers, and the rivers definitely end up flowing into the ocean. It might be interrupted here and there, but eventually the flow can’t be stopped and it will find a way to keep going.
The same applies to us. We go through life and we experience so many things. We are born here and there, far away from our centre, from our origin, but the situations we encounter will push us in that direction, no mater what, in spite of ourselves, even if we don’t want to go. Even if we don’t co-operate, eventually we will be pushed in that direction, because that’s where we came from, and that is where we will return.
So it is better to co-operate and find those helping factors which help us to smoothly go towards our origin. Doing our spiritual practices regularly is a way of co-operating that will make it easier for us. Otherwise it will be suffering that pushes us in that direction. Suffering may be the only way in life, but if we do the spiritual practices, if we meditate, it can be considerably reduced. If we come on the Path and we do our practices and we co-operate, then everything flows smoothly.”

„If you are regular with your meditation maybe you will not be blessed always, but for time to time the Divine grace descends upon us and we experience something very beautiful, amazing and fantastic. This gives us strength and power to keep going!
So, we should never interrupt our practice, even if we go through periods of dryness, in which it seems that nothing happens, yet sooner or later our persistence will be taken into consideration and the gates of grace will again open and we will be blessed!”

“Wali, Pir, Prophets, Saints, have come in all periods, and will come in future also. It is not true that God was gracious to souls in the past and He is not concerned for them now. No; the God Who has created this world has many concerns: to keep it running, and to unite those souls with Him who are eager to meet Him – who have yearning to meet Him; it doesn’t matter if they are born in any part of the world; God Himself inspires them and arranges to bring them to the feet of a Saint. God is doing all this while sitting within everybody. He will unite them if He wishes, even if they are living across the ocean.”

“If at every moment you are consciously watching your behavior, a calm consideration will replace a blind instinctive reaction to certain situations in life where the choice lies between committing a lapse in behavior or avoiding it.”

“Remembrance of the Master, day and night, is very helpful.”

“If you want to accomplish anything in this world, the first thing required is to have faith, to have belief. When we are traveling in a train, going over rivers on the bridges built by engineers, we have faith in those engineers that their bridges will not break down. We surrender our precious lives in their hands and travel in the train without any worries. Fearlessly, we sleep all night while the train crosses bridge after bridge. In the same way, when we fly in the air, we go up miles above the earth. We surrender our lives to the pilots and the engineers because we have faith in them that they will take us to the right place and that they are able to take us where we want to go.

Similarly, when we enter into Sant Mat, in the beginning we need much faith in the Master. If we have any doubt, we cannot progress and the way to Him will not be open to us. We can deceive and misguide the people, but we cannot deceive that God Which is within us; we cannot play tricks on Him. In the beginning we need to build up faith outwardly and, after that, when we go within and see with our own eyes, we realize that we need not worry about anything: because the God Who is residing within us is concerned about us and He is doing everything for us.”

“Do not worry as to what may or may not happen in the near or distant future. The Master always shields His children suitably.”

“All the spiritual practices that we do, singing the bhajans, repeating the mantra and so forth, are meant to still the mind, making it very quiet and very peaceful. Switching it off, turning it off completely is rather difficult. It happens rarely and to rare people. But let us at least develop a state in which our minds are at peace, silence, because it’s only when this happens that meditation is possible.”

“The Simran which is given to the disciple is Guru Bhakti. And when you have completed the course of Simran, after that Naam Bhakti is started. With the help of Simran, we have to collect all our scattered thoughts and bring them to the third eye. We can go up to the sun, moon and stars with the help of Simran, and manifest the form of Satguru.”

“You are all fortunate, because you have got the man body, the highest in all creation, which is next to God. The highest aim in the man body is to know Self and to know God. The ultimate goal of all knowledge is the knowledge of the Self. The Upanishads ask us. What is that by knowing which everything else is known? For that, God makes an arrangement to bring those who have got a real yearning to search for this ideal, in contact somewhere where they can be put on the way back to God, which is within you.”

“You are advised to draw a thick curtain over the past and just forget everything which has since passed as no amount of repentance or resentment can do it. You must start a new pattern of life.”

“Regularity, earnestness and accuracy coupled with inner longing and yearnings are the helping factors, which bring one closer to the Master within.”

“All the Saints have said that if there is any true temple, if there is any true mosque, or any true abode where God Almighty resides, it is our human body. Because God does not reside anywhere outside, He is residing within us. So that is why Farid says that all the bad thoughts and the other worldly things which we have in our body are like the dirt. So you should wake up in the morning and using the broom of Simran which your Master has graciously given to you, remove all the thoughts, remove all the dirt of this world from your within and make it clean. Just as we clean the temple or holy place where we worship God, in the same way, God Almighty is within us. So we must remove all the worldly thoughts, all the bad things from our within and clean it with the Simran. That Beloved Who is within you is always awake, so you should also wake up early in the morning. “

“The practice of Simran begins with the repetition of the Master’s objective Names slowly with a mental poise. At first the practice is objective, but in time it becomes subjective. Then the constant thought of the Lord continues without cessation. Once this starts, the remembrance becomes automatic, continuous and constant and one never forgets the Lord.”

“Only if we turn within and work on ourselves can we really be transformed from ordinary human beings into very special human beings. That’s the process – it is within us. It is inside of ourselves that our problems exist, and it’s inside of ourselves that we find a solution.”

“With a sincere heart, with a brave attitude we sit down in meditation and try to switch off this mind. If there is a device working and we switch it off, it stops working! The same thing we should do with our mind, switch it off by activating the Surat or the attention. If we are able to fully focus our Surat, our attention at the Tenth Door and keep staring there with perseverance continuously then the mind will smooth down, will quite down. If you are able to keep your attention well focus like this and at the same time we are repeating the Simran, then the inner vision will open!”