The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“In all trying circumstances, prayer is the last weapon in our armoury. Where all human efforts fail, prayer succeeds.”
“So we should maintain love and devotion for the Master. You should have faith in the Master. It is very important if you want to progress on the Path. Master Sawan Singh Ji used to say, “If you are not able to do anything else, at least have respectful love for the Master. Because if you do all that He says, and if your love for the Master is more than for the world, you will definitely go to the place from where your Master is coming, and you will definitely go to the place where your Master is going.” Where does the Master go? Master goes to His Master, because He is always loving His Master. That is why if you are having love for the Master, you will definitely go to Almighty Lord. Unless we have love for the Master, we cannot get rid of the love for the world. The love for the Master is the only means of developing love and devotion for Almighty Lord.”
“The basic principle of a highly serene life is to accept the divine dispensation with cheer as it is chiefly based on the reactions of our own actions and is invariably flavored with mercy for our eventual betterment. A disciplined devotee should view everything from a highly elevated viewpoint and accept life without any regret or remorse.”
“Never understand meditation as a burden. Do it lovingly. The work which we do lovingly we become successful in it.”
“The only thing to be done is sit in one position with the inner gaze fixed constantly on the darkness or Light, whichever it may be. The rest is for the Master to do who is overhead extending all feasible help.”
“No matter if you don’t believe in the heat of the fire, but still when you come near the fire, you will definitely experience the heat of the fire. In the same way, even if you don’t understand the meaning of Master’s putting His hands on you, or if you don’t even believe in Him, but still, when He puts His hand on your body or on your shoulders, it means a lot. The disciple on whom the Master is putting His hand or whom Master is patting, gets a lot of benefit from the touch of the Master. Generally the souls understand this as a very ordinary thing. When Master puts His hand out, when Master pats Him, that soul doesn’t understand its real meaning.”
“The soul is a prisoner and the Master is the liberator and He works to that end day and night for the benefit of the initiates. The Master’s blessings are always assured in overflowing degrees to the initiates. He wants them to progress within in the least possible time and is happy to see them progress.”
“Who would give us the good advice? Who would put us back onto the true Path if we have forgotten or have lost the Path? Who would put us back on that Path? Only He who has sympathy with us, only He who is our true friend. Our enemy will never give us good advice; he will never put us back on the Path. And our mind is our enemy. Can we expect him to sympathize with us? Can we expect him to give us good advice? Master is the only one who has good wishes for us and who is sympathetic to us and He is the only one who would give us good advice and the only one who would put us back on the Path.”
“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.”
“The holy meditation should not be a mechanical routine of just sitting for a certain time but it should be of loving devotion dyed in reverential humility when you stand begging at the divine door of the Lord.”
“So long as we do not sacrifice that to which we are most attached, at the altar of God’s love, we cannot obtain salvation.”
„Until the Shabd is manifested in our within, we cannot be completely patient and we cannot be content in the Will of God. Because until the Shabd has manifested in our within, we may pretend to be patient and we may pretend to be happy, content, and pleased in the Will of God, but because of our mind, we cannot be sure that we are always patient and that we are always happy in the Will of God. Because mind will deceive you someday. That is why unless we manifest the Shabd in our within, we cannot remain content in the Will of God.”
“We must reform ourselves before we can reform others, but unfortunately we are always anxious to reform others.”
“There is no doubt we are weak and have neither faith nor love, but there is also one hope to sustain us – that he may take pity on us and forgive our sins. We have taken refuge at his holy feet and, deservedly or undeservedly, we are his children.”
“In order to cross over this ocean of life, and in order to remove all the diseases, all the pains which we have, especially the pain or the disease of birth and death, the Naam of the perfect Master is the only medicine. It works like an herb which renews life – it gives you the life again.”
“Yet another point, you must give up all your feelings of possession; karma may take from you the things which you like best – even the people whom you love most. Even then, you must be cheerful – ready to part with anything and everything.”
“The most important and most effective thing in human life is to turn away from all evil in order to refill one’s heart with all the good and positive things that this creation has to offer.”
„The blessing of God that we get through the Master stays with us forever.”
“In the Satsang Master tells the story of the lovers of God and of the Path that leads to union with the Beloved.”
„No matter what happens in our relation with the Master, no matter what He does for us and with us, if we are sincere and we are true and we know what He is doing, He is doing it for our best! A real seeker of Truth, whatever the Master does He will understand that it is for His good and He will never fight with the Master whatever He does!”