
The following section contains the collected quotes from Satguru Sirio Ji and earlier Masters of Surat Shabd Yoga.
“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! “
“Which souls are the most fortunate ones in this world? Which are the most lucky souls in this world? Only those, who after getting the human birth come to the Master and always dwell with the Master. The meaning of “dwelling with the Master” is that when you come to the Master to get the Initiation from Him, the Master is residing within you in the form of the Shabd, and those who do the meditation according to the commandments of the Master, always remain with the Master; they always feel the presence of the Master. Those who do this know how the Master does not leave them even for a moment, the Master is always present with the disciple, just like his shadow. And those who really dwell with the Master know what the relationship between the disciple and the Master is. The relationship between the disciple and the Master is very deep, very concrete. As the shadow never leaves the body, in the same way, the Master never leaves the disciple.”
“You should not have any clutching tendency to have one thing or the other. Simply sit at the door and wait. This sublime silence is best and easily achieved by lovingly and humbly reposing in the gracious Master-Power, to grant and bless you with whatever it deems fit.”
“There are several ways of getting close to the Supreme Reality, to the Supreme Truth, but love is definitely the most effective, the most intoxicating and the most beautiful.”
“Those who want to venture on the spiritual path, they should understand that it’s a very demanding something. It’s an adventure! It’s an adventure of love, it’s and adventure of devotion. It’s a giving of oneself and it has to be done in all possible ways.”
“All are on the road to perfection and it is not wise for anyone to find fault with others.”