Quotes Collection

“It’s fine to have what we need to live, but we should try to lead a dignified life in which we are capable of making a living, capable of taking care of ourselves, and maybe, if possible, we should try to help others. But we should not live with no other purpose than to gather belongings, because it becomes such an addiction, such an attachment, that even when we leave the body, we won’t be able to think about anything else. We will be so attached to all of it that we won’t be able to escape the sphere of this material world, and we will whirl around here like ghosts. It’s not a joke, it’s not a play, and it’s not an invention—that’s how it goes.

In order to be able to leave this material world even when we leave the body, it is very necessary to be detached from it all. “

“You must silence your thoughts during meditation. The silencing of the intellect is the last nail in the coffin. You should not wish to have one thing or another. Simply sit at the door and wait. The sublime silence is best and easily achieved by lovingly and humbly reposing in the gracious Master-Power to grant and bless whatever is deemed fit.”

“The love of the Master for you is boundless. The path is difficult, but He is always with you to guide you.”

“I will advise you that you should start doing your meditation as the wrestlers start doing their work when they go into the ring to fight or wrestle with another wrestler. At that time, neither of them is thinking about their defeat. They both have hope, and they both want to become successful. That is why they apply their full force, and with all their concentration they do their work. Success or defeat is something which comes later on, but in the beginning they both have the same enthusiasm, and they both are trying their best to defeat each other. In the same way, when you sit for meditation you should not be discouraged, you should never think that you will not become successful. Like the wrestlers, you should also have hope and you should also be enthusiastic. You should apply your full force in doing your meditation. At our Eye Center, which is our ring where we have to fight with our mind, we should apply our full force, and we should put all our concentration in fighting with him.”

“The process of meditation is one of trying to go back to this Primal Source of Light. We try to invert from outside to inside. We try to disconnect our consciousness from everything external, even from the body. We try to be fully focused.”

“If you follow a spiritual path you can be transformed. You can acquire self-control over your outer faculties, over your thinking process, and become someone who is not driven by his or her impulses as other human beings are. You can be someone who is in charge of his or her life, choosing what you want to do and rejecting things that you don’t want to do.”

“Another common desire which you must sternly repress is the wish to meddle in another man’s business, directly or indirectly, privately or openly. If you see a case of cruelty to a child or an animal, it is your duty to interfere. If you are placed in charge of another in order to teach him, it may become your duty gently to tell him of his faults. Except for such cases, mind your own business and learn the value of silence.”

“First of all, we have to understand that unless we complete the course of the Simran, we will not be able to fix our attention. Unless we will withdraw our attention from all the different parts of the body, and unless after retracing our soul, our consciousness, unless we will bring it up to the Eye Center, we will not be able to fix our attention there.

Because it is your Surat, or the consciousness, which has to fix the gaze. Right now your consciousness, your attention, is spread all over, so how can you fix the gaze? Sometimes you will look at the turban of the Master, sometimes you will look at some other part of the body of the Master, and in this way your attention will always remain separated or disturbed.

So, first of all, satsangis should understand the importance, understand the greatness, of doing the Simran. When you will do the Simran and when you will keep your gaze behind the two eyebrows, your Dhyan will start becoming itself. “

“Never be defeated by anything, you keep going! Never give up! Never surrender!”

“You cannot have the results according to your desires or expectations. So always do your best and leave the results to the Master overhead and whatever the results are, take them with good cheer. They are always beneficial to the initiated, because the Master-Power working overhead knows what is best for His ailing child.”

“Satsang is the only way whereby we can have the knowledge and experience of the Divine in us. It is a panacea for all ills of life. Most of us are swayed by feelings, emotions or inferential knowledge on the level of intellect. But we have no first-hand inner experience of God. The Masters tell us that they have seen Him. There is also another side of the picture. Some great saints have declared that nobody has seen God nor can one see Him. It is true that God-in-absolute cannot be seen by the eyes of flesh nor can we hear Him. But God-in-action or His Powerin-expression can certainly be seen as well as heard; for Light and Sound characterize that Power. The Masters term this Power as Naam, the holy Word or Kalma. Being one with this Power, they have the authority to grant us a conscious contact with it. When that Absolute Power wished to come into being, there was a commotion. a vibration and with it Light and Sound came as natural concomitants. It is this Light and this Sound that can be communed with. Satsang, strictly speaking, is association with such perfect Masters who are Word-personified.”

„The spiritual path is a path of continuous transformation; renewing ourselves continuously.”

“If one cannot rise above, be in full control of, and handle with ease the circumstances of his outer environment, he will never be able to succeed in the way of spirituality.”

“According the way we live our life today, we shape our future. What is today is the result of the past. What will be tomorrow is the consequence of today. So, by and by we share our destiny, therefore we have to take destiny into our hands and mould it according to the teachings of the Master.”

“Meditating means taking our life in our hands, taking our condition in our hands. Everything is move by the thoughts, so we have to learn how to direct our thoughts, and each time we sit in meditation it’s a training for learning this process.”

“You can only become receptive through love. The man who has love, even while sitting with thousands of people still remains all alone, because his whole attention is riveted on the Master with whom he is concerned. This is the way that you can develop receptivity.”

“The streams of our mind and soul come onwards into our body in the way that sunshine comes to earth. It is not an easy task to change the direction of the streams of our mind and soul. It is not an easy thing to withdraw the attention of our soul from all over the body and bring it to the Eye Center. It is not the work of a few days, a few months, or a few years. It is a work which requires our total attention and complete devotion. When we are able to change the direction of the streams of our mind and soul, and when we withdraw our attention from all over the body and take our soul to the Eye Center, then we can easily see why this Creation was created, Who has created it, and how it is being run. The Mahatma who reaches this place, and sees the world from up high, understands it as no more than a playground.”

„If we try to explain everything we won’t succeed. There are many things, which are just to be accepted the way they are, without explanation, without understanding, there just as they are. So, we have to try to be happy with the way life unfolds. It’s not always easy, very often it’s very difficult, not possible, but there is not really alternative. We can’t expect things to go the way we like in order to be happy. We have to be happy by accepting things the way they happen, the way they manifest. One thing is for sure, everything is motivated by something, everything is an effect of a cause. Therefore, no matter what happens around us, we always have to try to find our own peace within.”

“Many people in the sangat were sitting in front of Master when He said that those who want to see God should raise their hands. Many people raised their hands. Some even raised both their hands. And then Master told them to close their eyes. Everybody closed their eyes except me, so they complained to Master that I was not closing my eyes. When Master asked me, I said, “Well, You said that those who want to see God should close their eyes. But what if one can see God without closing his eyes? I know that my Master is my God and when I am seeing You with my open eyes, then why should I close my eyes?” Master was very happy with me and He said, “Yes, you have understood my secret.”

“The dear ones who have been blessed with the sacred boon of holy initiation into the mysteries of the beyond are all granted full protection by the gracious Master-Power in the beyond. Most of their karmic debts are paid off as if they had lived their normal fate karma. Smaller karmic debts are paid off even before leaving off the body and as such they are not reincarnated. If, however, there remain some overwhelming worldly desires, the initiated souls are granted human birth, but are placed in such congenial environments where they will have the chance of continuing their inner journey by meeting the living Master working at the time. Spiritual growth and progress thus continues under His guidance.”