The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“When we are with the Master and we look into His face, into His eyes and we listen to His words with full attention, that’s an extension of meditation. Because what is meditation after all? It’s a completely focused attention with no minds, no thoughts, completely immersed in what we are doing! So any spiritual practice what we do, the Bhajan singing, the mantra singing, Darshan, looking at the Master, in His face, in His eyes it’s all meditation! It’s all contributes to uplift our consciousness.”
“The biggest enemy in this world of all mankind is our mind. There is nobody else who is the enemy of man. So we are not to bow down to our enemy. We are to fight against him. You be brave and fight with mind. So the weapon to fight against the mind is the Naam. Satguru is always ready to help you. Remember Satguru, every difficulty will be removed. So you are to give more time for meditation.”
“Entire self-surrender to God is the secret of a true lover of God. Therefore, he should be a man of purity, humility and meekness. The main thing one should do is devotion to the Name of God and see the Light and hear the Voice of God – the Sound Principle reverberating in all. For this, he should devote regular time to meditation and conquer the passions through communion with the Master. He should sing of God – the Beloved, and enter into the superconscious through intoxication of His sweet remembrance.”
“The disciples get Initiation from the Master and they make a promise to their Master. If we keep the promise which we have made to our Master, He will also set us free from the clutches of the Negative Power. Because the Master is always looking after the disciples who do the devotion, who keep their promise. The Master is very gracious, and those who always remain sincere in their devotion are released from the clutches of Negative Power.”
“One must be in the world attending to the duties and obligations assigned to him or her, but one should do these in a very detached manner.”
“We know about the goodness of a tree only by eating its fruit. In the same way if we mould our life according to the teachings of the Master, if we sincerely do the things which the Master has told us to do, only then can we realize the perfectness and the competence of the Master. Because the Masters do not tell us things from hearsay, they tell us only those things which they have actually done in their own lives.”
Between God and spirit, there is no other obstacle but that of a veil of the mind. If this veil were to stop fluttering in the breeze of desires, as it does at present, the spirit can take in directly the Cosmic Energy from its very source.
“Please learn to be receptive to His grace and feel His kindly presence riding with you on the buses, chatting with you in the street, sitting with you in the park, by your office desk, accompanying you every morning to the office, slowing down by the lily pond to check the new flowers and walking with you in the evening all the way back by the new moon. Master is always with the disciple and never leaves him or her until the end of the world. The Father will never disown His children.”
“Love and all things shall be added unto you. It is love that makes you all-attention. It is love that gives you a place in the heart of the Beloved. It is by His love that we live.”
“Meditation is the medicine to control mind, or to destroy your mind’s feeling. We have got this man’s body, and we have to use it in diverting our attention towards Satguru.”
“How fortunate is a child who will repose fully and surrender completely in the strong and protective arms and loving care of the Father! He then becomes care-free, leaving all the work to the merciful and benign Father, of working out things as He deems best. Such a life becomes supremely sweet and all his problems become easier and his way becomes clear and smooth. The Master-Power is constantly extending all feasible help and blessings. Let us fully repose our trust in Him. The fortunate ones do as the Master says, and receive all the necessary material help, which goes a long way to assuage the severity of the karmic debts. The difficulties and troubles may come, but they pass off without leaving an ugly mark behind. Please do not lose heart.”
“Dear ones, often I have said that if we want to store the milk of a tigress, we need a vessel made of gold. In the same way we need to make our within, our heart, very strong, very courageous, very grand, if we want to preserve this wealth of Spirituality. We should not be like a gambler and waste the spiritual wealth which we have gained for the worldly problems. Because when we are living in this world, the pains and happiness are [both] going to come. The problems will come, so that is why we need to make our heart, our within, very strong, so that we can maintain and preserve this spiritual wealth which we are getting from doing the meditation.”
“When you are at work, be completely absorbed in it, and when there is no work, do not permit your mind to wander aimlessly or to remain idle, for “an idle mind is the devil’s workshop” as the saying goes. You should resort either to the repetition of the five holy Names during all vacant hours of the day and night as well as keeping your mind in sweet remembrance of the Master wherever you may be, or in listening to the sweet symphonies of the melodious Word, if it becomes audible. This will leave no room for idle thoughts and they will not disturb you in meditation.”
“We should try to withdraw our attention from all outside, we should try to withdraw our attention from the sensual pleasures and direct it within in the peace of the soul, in the state of mental stillness, in which we may experience what the soul is all about, what the consciousness is all about.”
“When a new year begins it’s very good to give goals to our life, to our next year, so that we may be able achieve at least some of them, if not all of them, and make our life fulfilling.”
“This creation happens because of the emanation of the Divine Power that comes into expression.”
“We should never understand meditation as a burden, but we should always do it with maximum pleasure. It is the most holy act that a human being may perform, it’s the way by which we connect with the Divinity within us, so it’s a very holy act and we should do it with extreme awe, reverence, love and devotion!”
“It’s so very rare to find a real yearning, longing soul who has an innate longing for God! A person who doesn’t have just enough of theories, philosophies, doctrines and theologies, he doesn’t care at all about these things, because they are just food for the mind!”
“The spiritual transmission always happens mostly through the eyes!”
“It’s important to acquire knowledge about reality, about how this life works, acquire the right knowledge about the functioning of the universe. But if just acquiring knowledge is the only thing that we do then we stay dry! We don’t know the beauty of love, of falling in love with God! “