The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“The goal of any real spiritual Path is realizing union with the Divinity within ourselves.”
“The sound of a word, in any language, generates a vibration that corresponds with the meaning of the word. It is the same with the Simran. Any word of the Simran has its own particular energy, and if we keep repeating it, really continuously repeating, then by and by we identify with this energy that it represents.”
“The mind is a lover of enjoyments, and in the Naam there is the Maha Ras – the most delectable nectar one can ever taste. If only the mind would take one true sip, it would never again yearn for lower enjoyments.”
“Love for the Simran is awakened only by doing it. You know that you can know about the quality of a tree only when you have eaten the fruit of it. In the same way, when you eat the fruit of the Simran – when you know how effective the Simran is – only then do you appreciate and start doing more Simran. When we do the Simran, we love the Simran, then we come to know how delicious and fruitful it is.”
“Thoughts are more potent than deeds, you see. If you think evil of others that thought vibrates and the whole atmosphere is poisoned. Whatever you think of others that thought radiates… others will feel it.”
“In order to break the chain of thoughts is very important to become intoxicated, inebriated with Divine presence. And to become inebriated, intoxicated we have to sing the praises of God with all of our love and devotion. So, according to how intense it is our prayer or call through to the singing – because what it is when we sing we pray to God loud by singing – and the melody, the harmony creates this uplifting atmosphere that becomes a vehicle to transcend the physical consciousness. So then the chain of thoughts breaks and the soul takes the flight.”
“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.”
“Whatever your ruling passion is at the end of your life, you’ll be driven there, that’s the law.”
“Satsangis should make the habit of keeping their attention concentrated at the Eye Center, even when they are not meditating, even when they are walking and doing other things of the world, because when we allow our attention to drop down from the Eye Center, it means that we are wasting a lot of our spiritual energy.”
“Once you discover this Light and learn to live by it, your whole existence will be changed. Love will permeate your very being and it will burst forth from the very pores of your body, transmuting all dross into sterling gold.”
“We realize the goodness of a tree only when we eat its fruit. In the same way, only those who have obeyed the commandments of the Master know how much one enjoys the fruit of obeying the commandments of the Master. All those who are initiated by Master Kirpal will be liberated, because He has taken responsibility for them. But those who have obeyed the commandments of the Master while living – those who have gone within and seen Him while they are living – they are the brave ones. Even though He will liberate everybody, only they are the brave ones who do the work which He told them to do in their lifetime.”
“Desires are the cause of suffering, and he alone is poor who has unfulfilled desires. He who is free from desires is richest. All desires arise in the mind, and when the mind is subdued and is merged in the sound current, the game is won.”
“Whatever you do, if done with love, passion and yearning, becomes a great pleasure. Even washing dishes or cleaning the house if we do it for the fun of it we will feel happy. The more we Meditate on the Divine Links [of Light and Sound], they will make us happy, contented and gratified.”
“As loving advice I give you, from this moment let love be your constant companion and trust Him in all things.”
“We want to ascend from the human to the Divine,
we want to transcend all the planes until the Infinite,
let us tune in with the roar of Naam…”
“In order to get liberation from this world and become detached from this world, it makes no difference if one lives under the earth, or if he makes his home in the sky – if he is not free from all his desires, he cannot become detached from this world. Why? When a man leaves the body, he has not yet accomplished all his desires. There is always one or another desire left which is not fulfilled. Wherever you are attached, there you go. So, according to our desires which are not fulfilled, and according to wherever we are attached, we have to come back into this world again to pay off our debts. So it does not matter if we physically leave this world, but if we have not left the attachments of this world – our thoughts and our desires – we cannot be liberated.”
“We are all on the Way. Some are less ready and others more so due to their karmic evolution of the experience in past lives.”
“We should all follow the teachings of the Master, we should do the meditation of Naam, so that our soul can return to her Real Home. It is a law of nature that we get things according to our wishes. If we are attached to the things of this world, if we wish for the worldly things, we come back to this world again and again, and we get the sufferings and pains of this world. But if we have love for the Master, if we desire to do the devotion of Naam, then our soul can easily go back to her origin. Our soul is a drop, and we can easily take our soul back to the ocean from where she came.”
“Whether your past has been wicked, or virtuous, or indifferent, the saints call upon you to devote yourselves to the task of meditation. Forget past sins, and do no more. You can rid yourself of the poison you have consumed in the past, but you must not keep swallowing more and more of it. All initiates are granted some experience of the inner life. If you have lost it, it is because you have been lethargic, unwise, and forgetful, or you have persisted in your old ways. If so, you must regain your lost capital.”
“The spiritual path wants to make us free from slavery to the body and the jail of the mind in which we keep swimming from one thought to the other without any end, without any real peace. So, we want to get out from this cage and experience wideness and expansion of consciousness, which is so liberating, which is so wonderful.”