The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“One’s whole life can be changed with meditation and love for the Guru. The Guru will then appear within.”
“If man can control the dim hours from sunset to sunrise, he becomes a true human being. But instead we eat, drink, enjoy the worldly pleasures until midnight, and then snore the rest of the night away.”
“The efforts of the disciple and the grace of the Master go hand in hand. Effort is rewarded with grace, and grace brings more effort. When a laborer gets his wages after a day’s work, is the Master so unjust that he will keep back his grace from a diligent disciple?”
Whatever way mind wants, he makes the Satsangi dance to his tune. But the Satsangi should not dance to the tune of the mind, with all his strength he should do the Simran. If the mind creates any thought of losing faith or anything like that, punish your mind and do more Simran. If you are used to sitting for one hour and if your mind is bothering you in that one hour, meditate for two hours on that day.”
“So if all the time we think of Him, no matter while we are engaged in worldly pursuits, we will gradually imbibe His spirit.”
“So, in the court of Saints, this is the greatest teaching, the secret of all secrets: that God is won by him who will give his mind.”
“The great value of life it’s in achieving the Divine condition, the Divine state, the Divine consciousness. That’s the goal of life! That’s the gift that we get if we are ready for it!”
“If we saturate our mind with repetition of Divine names then Divinity comes and dwells within us.”
“Divinity is potentially within every human being. We only have to live a lifestyle that allows us to manifest it. How do we do this? The same way as all the great Masters have done it, in all spiritual traditions, in all the parts of the world. We do it by meditating on Naam, by manifesting the Inner Light. They illuminated the world by meditating on Naam and realising the potential divinity within themselves. When a person achieves such a realisation, other people will naturally gather around him or her because they sense the beneft, and they will also become illuminated or enlightened.”
“If we have not developed eyes which can see the brilliance of God, how can we ask the Master to show us God? First we should make our eyes able to see God. When we do the meditations regularly, when we make our lives pure, when we keep our thoughts pure, then the eyes which can see God are developed and we can go within and see the brilliance of God.”
“Compassionate as He is, His grace is always at work in each and all alike, for we cannot live without it. We can, however, attract that grace to our advantage by becoming a fit receptacle for it. Humility and faith purify the mind and make it a fitting instrument for God’s grace. These two aids help in inverting the lotus of the mind which, at present, is attuned with the senses. Unless we are able to turn its direction upwards, God’s grace cannot directly flow into it. Prayers, humble and sincere, help in establishing a harmony between man’s mind and God’s grace. All that is required is a loving and pure heart attuned to His grace and the latter is automatically attracted to it. Prayer has in it a great dynamic force. It strengthens and prepares a person to face and fight the battle of life fearlessly and successfully. It is in fact the only panacea for all types of ills. It is the key that unlocks the Kingdom of Heaven.”
“Satsangis should not miss the regularity because in regularity is the prosperity. If we miss meditation even for one day it takes us three days or more to meditate and fill up that gap. Because even if we meditate for four or five hours daily, still because we think about the world a lot, the worldly portion is much more. That is why the Satsangis should make a habit of regularity in their meditation. Even if it is only a little, it doesn’t matter, but they should be regular in meditation.”
“When the Master initiates someone, He resides with him; He watches all of his actions, guiding him further where it is needed; especially those who turn their faces to Him.”
“The karmas in life have to be paid; so why not pay them cheerfully? All our relationships and environments have been written by the Lord’s pen, and He has joined both individuals and circumstances through the prarabdha karmas. It behooves us to live through them with the best attitude.”
“Each satsangi should always be determined to do the meditation; he should not go after getting experiences, he should only be determined to do his meditations regularly and wholeheartedly.”
“To the best of your efforts you should resort to the repetition of charged Names all along your vacant moments and keep yourself immersed in the loving remembrance of the Master.”
“It is difficult to control your senses, to rise above body consciousness, to keep thoughts pure and not to think ill of others. If we accomplish these things, it is not difficult to realize God.”
“To think about weakness in old age is also a trick of the mind: By making us worry about all the weaknesses which some do experience in old age, our mind is keeping us from Simran. Instead of thinking about old age and its weakness, we should do Simran, which could be of some help to us. But worrying will not help.”
“The thinking mind is made of the same nature of time. The mind is the agent of time by which everything is manifested in this world.”
“If you want the Light of the Infinite to reflect into the inner chamber of the heart, you have to cleanse the mirror of our Soul, so this Light might reflect!”