Seize the moment, seize the day—and embrace life with joy and wonder. The ECK teachings offer you a simple way to enjoy life to the fullest measure: the Spiritual Exercises of ECK. Do them daily, do them well. For they bring love.

—Sri Harold Klemp
The Living Word, Book 2

The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master, whom all know as the ancient one, is re-embodied life after life, in every generation, for the opportunity of Soul to find Its Master.
. He is the divine one with whom Soul can make Its first contact in order to take up Its path again to God.
. No religious faith can continue successfully unless it has a Living Master at the head of it. This Master must be one who is adept at the spiritual truths, both in the Physical form and that which is the Inner Self.
. He is both the Outer Master and the Inner Master.




The way of the ETERNAL
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

Sri Gopal Das
What man wants most in life is freedom. And if this is denied in his waking state, he'll fulfill it on the Astral Plane while he's asleep. The next question, then of course, is, what is freedom?"
. "The essence of freedom is expression, and freedom is measured by the degree that one is able to express oneself. In the lower worlds, there are numerous limiting factors to this freedom. Society is nothing but a set of limiting rules. So we find that the common man is becoming bullied by outer conditions more each day, and in his desperation, he finds that the only way to have any semblance of freedom is to create - to cause effects. Then we get into the matter of setting policies, the science and application of power, in order to assert these creative actions. Multiply this by the number of Souls on earth at any given time, and you can see why there is so much struggle, war, and interference with one another's space."
. There is but one way to attain true freedom in life - through Soul Travel. And many times the first steps are taken in the dream state, here in Askleposis."
. Freedom is finding existence outside of limitations. It is at this point that creation becomes one with beingness. The need to assert oneself through creation ceases, because in true beingness, one is pure cause. One sees life in pure randomity by direct perception through the eyes of Soul. When you visit new states of consciousness through Soul Travel, you're creating a new state of awareness within your own state of consciousness in order to accept the new things you experience. The conditions you experience are not as important as the new consciousness you create, for once you are able to consciously create the conditions for the new awareness to come into your life, you will always be able to attain freedom, no matter how restricting the outer conditions. Look here!"


In the company of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

The best thing in this life is not superior intelligence, but Love.
. It is love and love only which will admit the seeker to all the heavenly worlds, for it is the golden coin which must be presented when entering the high regions of Divine Spirit.
. Nothing else will do because the doors of these worlds will not open for any other reason.
. You see, the capability to love is the most noble of all qualities of Soul, for love is a greater ability than to rule over one's fellowman.


The way of the ETERNAL
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

Some time ago there was a Benedictine monastery in France. The Benedictines are known for their rigorous schedule of prayer, work, and chanting. They chant from six to eight hours a day, work very hard, and only sleep a little.
. This particular monastery got a new abbot. While trying to bring in the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, he made a study of the chanting the monks did.
. Eventually the abbot told the monks, "We're chanting from six to eight hours a day. This time could be better spent for something else." And he asked them to stop chanting.
. In just a few weeks, the abbot noticed that the monks looked very fatigued. Everyone was so tired that they could barely continue with their daily schedule. Some thought maybe the fatigue was from working such long hours and getting so little sleep. So the abbot gave them eight instead of four hours of sleep and reduced their workload.
. When the fatigue persisted, a medical specialist and dietician were called in. They prescribed more meat and potatoes instead of the monks' centuries old diet of fish and vegetables. Now they not only felt more fatigue, but many of the monks became ill.
. Seeing that none of this was working, the abbot finally called a man who studied sound.
. Since this man knew that certain sounds were very beneficial, he told the monks, "Go back to chanting six to eight hours a day. Chanting is what heals you and gives you the strength to keep up your schedule.
. The monks began chanting again. They resumed their simple diet and only four hours of sleep. Within six months, most of them were back on their rigorous schedule, fit as ever.
. Most of us don't have the time or inclination to live in a monastery and chant six to eight hours a day. The chant of HU is a higher chant, and it gets the same job done in just twenty minutes.
. Chanting HU is what gives Soul vitality and strength.


The Call of Soul
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

Seed for Contemplation

You cannot measure spirituality by the number of bad habits you have or not. Nor by a certain number of experiences. Awareness of the moment and a joy for living can also be an indication of where you are spiritually.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Language of Soul

There is a lot to be said about what one gains from serving the ECK. In short, when one gives without ever thinking of reward, he is in the first stage of immortality.
. As with the study of ECKankar, one must be bold and courageous for the timid never find God.
. The Living ECK Master can assist, show the way, but each individual must walk the steps himself.


The Way of the ETERNAL
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

" ECK is the golden thread, so fine as to be invisible yet so strong as to be unbreakable, which binds together all beings in all planes, in all universes, throughout all time and beyond time into eternity."


The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book one

You will learn that the path to God is not one of a group. You are on this path to God yourself.
. You may be a member of a group that is very large or very small, or you may go all by yourself. But you are on this journey to God. The only important thing on this journey is you and God. Once you've established the correct relationship between yourself and God, then you're able to go back out into the world and serve all God's creatures. And you will serve with love, kindness, compassion, and understanding.
. Because you've walked in those moccasins before, you can help others by listening. You've been there. And there are others who can help you because they've been where you are now.
. All the help that comes to us is from the Holy Spirit, whether it comes in a dream or through the help of a friend or a doctor. The trick is the discrimination that you need: to tell what's good for you and what's not good for you. This comes by listening to your heart.


How To Survive Spiritually In Our Times
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

The Law of Silence is one of the laws we're familiar with in ECK. It's simply this: if there's a certain truth that is very, very important for you spiritually, keep it to yourself.
. This doesn't mean that you don't help people, that you don't talk to them about one thing or another. But if there is something that has come to you specially, a spiritual lesson that has come your way to teach you something about truth, as soon as you realize this, say nothing about it. Let the Holy Spirit play the scene out for you. Because then you'll get the benefit of the lesson. Otherwise, you waste it. It goes into the air just like empty words.


How To Survive Spiritually In Our Times
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

People have the idea that God's love is sweet, gentle, and kind. But sometimes God's love needs to shake the sleeping Soul and awaken It because this is the lifetime that Soul has chosen to awaken to truth. And Soul is often in a very deep sleep. It needs one spiritual Jolt after another to finally become aware that there is more to life than what meets the eye.
. Some people will have an astral experience; others will have a very vivid dream experience. Others will have a vision. Some will have the higher state of Soul Travel. Others will get a prophecy, perhaps through the dream state. All these experiences are in some way a miraculous healing.
. These things are generally wake-up calls from the Mahanta. As an instrument of the Holy Spirit he is empowered to give these experiences to those Souls who are ready.


How To Survive Spiritually In Our Times
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

Sri Fubbi Quantz
. "Each man will eventually have to face True Soul. Whether he will be able to continue on his quest without further delay depends upon the strength he chooses. The strength of love or power."
. " We often become angry with others, because they reflect a weakness or lack within ourselves. When one has deficiencies in his life, and he attempts to fulfill them outside of his true beingness, he will be met with frustration and anger, for fulfilment of Soul cannot be found in the pursuit of something outside of oneself. This is choosing of power for strength. And in the end, one finds that it is a poor choice, for in power, there is no strength."
. But choose love, and no power will be able to stand before you, for in true love, there is no power. This is true strength. Do you now understand the true power of love?


In the company of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

Gradually, over a number of years, people slowly wake from their spiritual sleep. As they do, they get a yearning. A yearning for something they can't quite put their finger on. They have desire for knowledge first. Behind that they find there is a yearning for understanding, then a yearning for truth.
. If they take it far enough, they'll realize that behind all their yearning is the yearning for love all this time, and these other things were just bringing them closer and closer to God's love.
. This is what we try to help people discover on their own through the teachings of ECK. I won't give someone a spiritual experience that he or she is not ready for. I can, but why? It's like giving a driver's license to a four-year-old child. You wouldn't tell a small child, "You're going to learn how to drive sometime, so here you go. Save you a couple years. Have a good time." Of course, you wouldn't do that.
. A true Master will never give someone a passport to a higher state of consciousness until that person is ready for it. A Master won't do this, anymore than a parent or state government would give a driver's license to a four-year-old child. Because the child would do a lot of damage.


How To Survive Spiritually In Our Times
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

where can I get some of these books

Wherever there is life there is this ECK force existing, for life in itself is immortal and indestructible; it cannot change. Life in the abstract is always the same whether or not it is expressed outwardly. When we do not see the manifestation of life we say it is dead; but life force or God does not change, nor die. Very few people will understand the simplicity of this.


Flute of God
Sri Paul Twitchell

We must look upon this divine power existing in the universe as having two aspects: one, expressing itself as the Life Force; the other, as intelligence. They are inseparable from one another. Intelligence is that which is the source of consciousness.
. The Life Force is the conscious Self. What is the Life Force? That which is self-conscious is the Life Force. We often call that which is conscious by the name of intelligence. We know that intelligence and activity in the ECK power is the Life Force within man. Activity and self-consciousness are inseparable and live together in the body; when together they leave it, the body is said to be dead.
. ECK, Life Force, self-consciousness ( whatever you wish to call It) is not many, for It is one. The Life Force in you is the same as the Life Force in me and in others. As Life Force is one, so self-consciousness is one. Self-consciousness exist as the root of all knowledge.


Flute of God
Sri Paul Twitchell

@ Ola
You can buy online or go to the nearest ECK centre in your area for further details.

As you unfold spiritually, you also unfold power - spiritual power - along with spiritual love. As this spiritual power comes to you, along with it comes the understanding of spiritual law that you cannot misuse this power at any time. Some people think, I like Eckankar. Now maybe I can develop my healing powers and go out and heal people. I've always wanted to be a healer. I'll just go heal people. But sometimes healing people when they haven't learned the spiritual lesson of their illness is interfering in their state of consciousness.
. This is why my role, in this mission, this time, is not to do things for people they should learn how to do for themselves.
. I try to help people find their own way to a health practitioner to overcome an illness. I try to help people go into contemplation and find out about their future themselves, by studying the ECK-Vidya, which is the ancient science of prophecy. Do this for yourself.
. My role is to help people who are ready for Mastership, not children who want to have things done for them. I help people who are striving to become self-sufficient and develop the very high spiritual state of being able to survive under any and all conditions. This includes such things as health and even wealth.


How To Survive Spiritually In Our Times
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

Setting Goals

First choose something you want in your life or pick a problem that needs to be dealt with. Then set clear goals.

Second, ask yourself the following questions. Your goals must pass four tests: (1) Are they specific? (2) Are they realistic? (3) Can the results be verified? and (4) Do they give a date for completion?

Next, of course, you must begin working toward your goals in your daily life. As you do this, you can also use visualization or daydreaming to help you. First picture the goal clearly—what you want to do or be in your life. Then fill the picture with unbounded love, because love is the true creative force that removes all limitations.

Practically all famous or successful people in the world have done this. The ECK Masters have set the goal of God-Realization and becoming a Co-worker with God for the chela of ECK. Holding this picture with love can pull you through rough times.

—Sri Harold Klemp
The Spiritual Exercises of ECK

A Seed for Contemplation

Sometimes the Holy Spirit may work in a gentle way. It may give you just a nudge, a feeling of how to act, what to do, which dentist to go see—something right down to earth.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Language of Soul

Sri Ahmad Qavani
. All life's laws and trials are for the purpose of Soul's education in how the worlds work, to temper Soul, so It can dwell in the higher regions above the laws of materiality. For in the higher worlds, there is only pure balance. In order to maintain this pure balance, one must first learn to gain pure balance within the areas of imperfect balance.
. You have one great advantage - the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master , who has mastered these laws and is willing to show you the same method of mastership. Through all your trials and mistakes, as well as your successes, the Mahanta will pass no judgment on you. If he seems to withdraw love from you, it is only so you can learn to fend for yourself; for even in your loneliest times, he loves you more than you will ever know. It is his will that you gain the highest and most prized gift of all - that of total freedom, God-Realization - and all his efforts are focused upon this one great goal.


In the Company of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

I try to speak about the different truth, the biggest of which is: You are Soul, you exist because God loves you. And an interesting corollary of that is that everyone is Soul.
. Very often the problems we have, come because the Souls God loves don't love each other.
. They are not aware of the divinity of the the other person. We can all recognize that God loves us, but we think, Surely God cannot love that scoundrel over there, that crook, that criminal; therefore, I'M justified in my anger and my judgments.
. As the spiritual leader of Eckankar, I sometimes point out the behavior of people who are acting in an unspiritual way. This is not a reflection upon their state spiritually. When you see some people who seem to be the farthest down the spiritual ladder, it's hard to imagine that some day they, too, will become God-aware individuals. "When pigs fly," you say. But someday, pigs will fly. Someday all Souls who become aware of God's love for them will also realize that God's love is for other people too.
. So for the first step in ECK , learn to love yourself as a creation of God. Then love those who are close to you. Because they are a special creation of God too. And once you've learned to love yourself and those who are close to you, then maybe you can love God.


How To Survive Spiritually In Our Times
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

Try to remember that there is a sacred connection between you and God and that this connection makes the ground you walk upon holy. And, when you're on holy ground, you are in the presence of God.
. The presence of God can be anywhere. It is everywhere, not just in the church. Sometimes we get things backward: we feel that we have to go to a holy place and only there are we in the presence of God. Sometimes it's a holy mountain, or a holy building. But wherever you are is holy if you recognize at any given moment that you are in the presence of God.
. This is the reason the ECK teachings have such spiritual power. They make you, the individual, the center of the universe.
. Soul is the center of the universe, outside of God. God created you. God created me. We are of the essence of God, and therefore, no matter how imperfect our knowledge of God is, we are still holy. This imperfect knowledge of God is what makes for imperfect behavior among people, the so-called evil.


How To Survive Spiritually In Our Times
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

Seed for Contemplation

As we give of ourselves, of our patience and love, to someone else who needs it more, something changes inside us. Something flows in, a flow of good feeling. A spiritual upliftment occurs both in us and in the person receiving the love.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Language of Soul

People come to ECK, and people leave too. At some point they find that they've come a certain distance in their spiritual unfoldment, and they become uncomfortable. They want to go back to their original religion, or they want to go on to another faith. Others stay with ECK for years and years, just like any other organization. These are the people who are the mainstay of this path. Eckankar and the ECK teachings are alive for them.
. But the ECK teachings are not able to lift everyone all the time, because upliftment depends upon the individual's state of consciousness.
. Even people who are doing very well on the path to God sometimes forget. They forget the spiritual exercise. In other words, they forget their communion with God. They forget to consecrate themselves, to make themselves holy, either by prayer or meditation, or, in Eckankar, by contemplation. They forget, and they slide backward.
. When they slide backward beyond a certain point, they say, " The teachings of ECK are not for me. I don't know how I could have been misled all these years." They'll go running out as fast as they can and say, " I escaped!" Who are they running from? Themselves? Or life? That is what we run from whenever we're running from anything, whether we're in Eckankar or outside of Eckankar.
. ECK is the Holy Spirit, and It pervades everything with Its presence. You cannot be outside of ECK. You may not agree with the terminology we use, but ECK is the Spirit of life. You cannot be outside the Spirit of life, or you would not be living.



How To Survive Spiritually In Our Times
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

Treatment against Fear

In order to make use of the imagination, one must become completely still. If you feel your mind and emotions churning and darting about, try this exercise to still yourself inside.

Choose a verse from The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, one that seems to fit your situation. The verses of The Shariyat are set in such a way that they can attune you to a higher level of consciousness. It is a good treatment against fear.

Repeat the verse over and over in your mind until you feel it become a part of yourself. You will feel your consciousness lifting and your inner worlds become still and calm. You will be able to consciously lift yourself to the point that troubles are not a part of you and you can see them objectively.

When you are able to rise above the situation into a clear area of thought—where you no longer see the parts but see the whole—then you can rearrange the parts accordingly.

—Sri Harold Klemp
The Spiritual Exercises of ECK

"There is never a time when the world is without the Mahanta, the living ECK Master. For Good manifest itself over and over again in the embodiment of the chosen one."



The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad

The man who succeeds, however great or small his aim, is he who refuses to be discouraged by discouragements, who refuses to give up when faced with disappointments, and as that-the truth-he can do the impossible.
. So many teachings seem to imply that the power can only be obtained through the intervention of another, that the power is within man but that it can only be contacted through stupendous or extraordinary means. Yet the fact is that the power is easily contacted by anyone who will believe this-so easily that the intellectual types often have difficulty in accepting this, while the more childlike leap on ahead of them.


Sri Paul Twitchell
The Flute of God

" When you start to do the spiritual exercise of ECK... You become a more independent, thoughtful, self-motivated individual because you are taking the first steps toward self-mastery. And self-mastery means you are in charge of yourself."


Sri Harold Klemp
The Golden Heart, Mahanta Transcripts, Book 4

Sri Dayaka
. "Soul does not die; there is no need to rush to leave a planet doomed for destruction. The school will just begin anew, perhaps on another planet, in another culture. And the Vairagi ECK Masters will make their appearance amongst man to show him the ways of SUGMAD and pass on the divine knowledge and history. There is no need for fitful haste. But the question that each Soul must confront is, when will It decide that It has had enough schooling? Enough experience? Enough of the Physical-and psychic-plane indulgence and pain? What good is all the knowledge of the universe and all the experience, if Soul cannot put it to a constructive use as a Co-Worker with the Divine Creator, the SUGMAD? The first purpose of the lower worlds is to teach Soul the reality of the ECK and SUGMAD and to gain liberation from the wheel that binds one to the cycles of the ages and rebirth. Any pleasure and pain is solely to show Soul the lessons of the world, to teach It how to seek out the balance in any situation; for life in the heart of the Creator is balance.


In the Company of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

Dreams are spiritual tools of the Holy Spirit to help you find your way to Good. A study of dreams the ECK way can help you enter a more productive, calm and grateful life.


Sri Harold Klemp
The Art of Spiritual Dreaming

Creativity, bountifulness, and gratitude goes hand in hand.

Sri Harold Klemp
The Language of Soul.