The Light of Sirio | Spiritual podcast | Beyond words

What does it mean to become a spiritual teacher/master/guru? Who eventually becomes a guru among the Master's disciples? Why does it seem like there are more female seekers nowadays? Are women more receptive than men? But then, why are most spiritual teachers male? Have you ever thought about these questions? If yes, now you can get the answers through a realised master; if not, it's time...

Is it possible to have spiritual experiences in a dream state? How can one make a difference if it is a real spiritual experience or a vivid dream? Why does this phenomenon happen to some people having such experiences while sleeping and not when sitting in meditation? Is it a real spiritual experience? How is our spiritual practice connected to what happens to our mind while we sleep? Master Siri...

How could one control the mind to block it from dominating us in continuation? How could one keep the elevated state of consciousness after God prevails and stops the ego from popping in again? Is there a way to dominate our Inner Space? Is there a way to stay tuned in and connected? Why are habits, spiritual practice and spiritual retreats powerful and important tools to apply in one's spirit...

How to Relate to Death? | The Healthy Level of Detachment | S6E04 | The Light of Sirio - spiritual podcast What is a healthy level of detachment from our animal friends? How to relate to them when they leave this world? What about our family members when they die? Where should our attachment to them end? How can we best help this process to happen, without being a hindrance to their leaving this w...

What is the path of detachment, or sanyasa spiritually speaking? Why only a few are able to be fully detached from life? Why cannot being detached work in the long run even for one who has realised it? What does it mean to observe or to fully live our life? What does it mean to fully dedicate ourselves spiritually? What does it mean that "I am my own master"? Why do we at all need a spir...

There is so much talk nowadays about meditation, but do we know what happens to us during meditation? What happens to our body and consciousness when we meditate? What kind of states might we experience? Why should we discard and leave behind the breathing process that goes on in our bodies automatically? In what way pranayama might be useful and helpful in meditation? Why does breathing slow down...

What is the best mantra to say before meditation? Should we say a mantra before meditation or should we repeat this mantra during meditation? What is the meaning of the mantra? What is the power of a mantra (Simran)? Where does it come from? How should we repeat the mantra? What is the mantra for? What is the effect of repeating a charged-up mantra? How is it possible to build the mantra into our...

Why does being in the company of the Master reorientate our mind towards the right behaviour? What does personal responsibility mean towards other people? What does it mean to set a good example? Why does our behaviour influence others in a spiritual group? What does the Master request from the disciples? How can we know if we are on the right track in setting a good example? Why people cannot liv...

How were spiritual retreats organised in Rajasthan with Sant Ji (Sant Ajaib Singh)? What does it mean to live a spiritual lifestyle that enables us to go through a retreat fluently? How was it to meditate with Sant Ji and look into his eyes from near, receiving his Darshan? This episode is like getting on a time machine through which we can come to know up to the last details how the retreats were...

What does it mean to have a real deep affinity with the living Master? How does it happen to absorb the teachings of a realised master up to our cellular level? How does it happen afterwards to shape the teachings to our way of being, to make the path into our path? How do we know if it's a simple ego trip, personal arrogance or a really deep understanding? How to take the teachings until the Mast...

How can one go through the greatest difficulties in life with a sane mind and come out of them lightheartedly with a smile? How do we transform any crisis in our life into a chance to improve our person and our situation in general? What does it mean to have the protection of the Master if one still has to go through very tough situations? Why does it happen that the nearer we get to the Master, t...

How life went in the early years of the Sant Bani Ashram? Why Master Sirio doesn't believe in spiritual communities? How one can balance work, family and spiritual life? Why is it important to dedicate ourselves to selfless service? Is it equal to spiritual practice and what is the transformative power in giving up our freedom and serving the Master? The return of Sant Ji to Italy in 1984 and how...

What happened after Sant Ji's first visit to the Sant Bani Ashram in Italy? We can hear the story of a brave girl from Slovenia who set on her spiritual quest and travelled via land up to India to meet the Great Master Kirpal and be warmly welcomed by him. How this meeting transformed her life, without her being aware of it in the beginning? What happens if the Master offers you to be initiated, b...

When we embark on a quest for Truth, we have to eliminate all of our dark side, fears, anxieties, laziness, and our attitude of procrastination and face life in its Reality. Life will create situations in which we will have to face all of this whether we want it or not. If we win over, well and good, we become real trustworthy human beings. If we don't, we will always stay the same limited weak an...

Another important milestone on the long spiritual journey towards self-realization. It is an incredible spiritual story of a disciple and his guru, how following the indications of a true, realised master may transform our life and make us into better human beings, stable like a rock that no storms of life can twist, throw down or smash. We can follow the personal spiritual and life story of an aw...

What is a spiritual experience? What does having a spiritual experience consist of? Is only having visions a spiritual experience? Is withdrawing from the physical body a spiritual experience? What about the Holy Presence of God, without seeing God? Is going into a state of bliss, ecstasy and intoxication a spiritual experience? Is going into samadhi a spiritual experience? You can find the answer...

What is death? What happens to us when we leave our body in a definite way? What happens next? Why is it important to be connected to a realised living master during our life? How does this spiritual connection with a master help at the time of our death? Why do we need a guide in the spiritual planes? What does the mahasamadhi of a master mean? What kind of an effect has the passing away of a mas...

An enlightening and involving conversation on the various aspects of Near Death Experiences. What happens when we die? Is it the same for everyone, or does cultural and religious background affect the experience? Why do so many of the people reporting these experiences speak of a life review, and why the life review is important once we die? If you are interested in answers to these profound quest...

The big question will be replied to in this episode, which many want to know: who will be the successor of the Master? It is a very intriguing and deep topic explained with absolute clarity by a great enlightened being such as Master Sirio Ji who has more than 50 years of direct and everyday experience in spirituality and meditation. He had two spiritual masters, so he understands well how success...

Is the use of intoxicants against the 5 precepts? What is the effect of intoxicants? What kind of experiences can one have? What are the dangers of intoxicants? What is the importance of an authentic guide in any type of ceremony or spiritual experience? What does it mean to have easy or safe spiritual enlightenment? Why do people develop an addiction to intoxicants? What's the difference between...

How can we reach and maintain an uplifted consciousness? What are the ways the provoke the Divine Grace to descend upon us and how to keep high our spirit? During retreats the spirit may fly very high and experience many wonderful states of connectedness with the Divine Presence. Then we go back to our daily lives and find it very difficult to maintain this elevated state of consciousness. What is...

When we get initiation, the Master imparts some of its energy to the disciple, does that involve the exchange of karmas between the Master and the disciple also? What is Kal and the fall of the soul? We can hear an involving conversation and a captivating explanation about the karmic bond and the exchange of karma between master and disciple. But we can also learn how it changes our karma if we he...

In this conversation with a realised master, Master Sirio Ji, we are trying to find the place of Surat Shabd Yoga on the big map of Yoga. To better understand the method and approach, we begin this attempt by comparing Surat Shabd Yoga and another yoga direction, well-known and spread in the West, Kundalini Yoga. That's why the title is 'Surat' (in sanskrit 'Attention') vs. 'Kundalini' (in sanskri...

Have you ever wondered how people lived in Eastern Europe during communism/ socialism? Were you aware that while most of the young people in other countries were busy with the hippy movement, or maybe with travelling to India, seeking spiritual liberation and a guru, others, maybe not even so far away, could not even have a passport and were closed up in the obligatory, official ideology of social...

We can listen to the story of Loretta, a psychologist doctor from Rome how she met a realized, true spiritual master, Sant Ajaib Singh. We can also come to know how things went wrong for her and some of her friends after the initial blessings. Their life turned into a real nightmare for them. This small group of 5 enthusiastic yoga practitioners were young people, yearning to realize Truth and to...