For example, the Law of Reverse Effort is simply that the harder a person struggles to achieve some goal, the more difficulty he will have to overcome; difficulty caused, at least in part, by the strain of his effort. "You try too hard; relax, take it easy, and try again," is an expression we hear so much in the Western world. We must make the mind one-pointed, as the Eastern adepts say, but nothing mental should be strained. We should never try to force results. We should stick to our task and finish out the race, but never knock ourselves out doing it.
. If we were riding a bicycle along a road filled with holes, trying to miss all the ruts, it is a certainty that we would hit almost every one. If we try to walk across a plank between two points, only two feet above the ground, it would be an easy feat. But if we put the plank between two windows on the fifteenth floor of two adjoining buildings and try walking it, we would find it extremely difficult to accomplish the task without falling. We would be so Conscious of falling to reach the far side, that we might not make it. This is the Law of Reverse Effort.
. This is exactly how man fails in Soul movement. He is working with mind in trying to get out of the body, and mind, which is influenced by one or all of the perversions, will keep informing him that he cannot get out of body. The harder he tries, the more firmly will Soul and body stick together, and he will fail in trying to resist the commands of mind.


ECKANKAR The Key to Secret worlds
Sri Paul Twitchell

. A family consists of people learning to become more spiritual by being with others. One thing you learn is that you can't have everything your own way.



Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master
The Awakened Heart

Sri Zadok of Judea

. The theatre, the stage, life in the streets of your metropolis - all are illusory. Yet they serve their purpose, for in their unreality, they bring Soul back to reality - to the ECK!
. The illusions man creates on the earth world have no value before Yama, the judge of the dead. There is no argument, there are no delays. Only justice.
. The man known as Jesus Christ was a contemporary of mine. We met on several occasions while he was preparing for his mission. We talked, but we both knew our missions were different.
. There are several differences. First, Jesus's teachings became the worship of the personality, for there was no other way to get his message to the people in the manner they would understand. This is the way of the saviors. He took on the karma of making his work known through the power of his personality.
. When the ECK Masters lead the chela to the Mahanta the Inner Master, there is no personality involved. The Outer Master is the teacher who clears up any misunderstandings he can on the outer, but when he leaves earth, he leaves karma - free. There are no karmic debts attached to his personality, for he has guided the chelas to the Inner Master - the Mahanta.
. Now it is the nature of the Inner Master to teach self-reliance and self-responsibility. Since he is the highest representative of SUGMAD, yet resides in the heart of man, there is no outside agent to pin any blame or guilt on. The Mahanta reveals more of himself to the chela as the chela is able to demonstrate responsibility for his own actions.
. On the other hand, the followers of Jesus believed that he would take care of the karmic debts himself. Those following him dumped all their transgressions on him, doing nobody any good.
. The only purpose of the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master is to guide the chela back home to SUGMAD. The rest is up to the chela. This is the difference between world saviors and the Vairagi ECK Masters.



In the COMPANY of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

The Holy Spirit is the creative power of Light and Sound. This is the Voice of God, and Soul was made from the Light and Sound. In other words, the creative power is in each human being. Therefore each human being has the inborn ability to take charge of his or her own life and not dwell in the victim consciousness that is popular in some circles today.
. You have to face yourself and realize that the problems you have today are of your own making. And then deal with it.


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

Light and Sound, just like the rain and wind, come to everyone equally and alike. But some people benefit more than others.
. It's up to your state of consciousness. And your state of consciousness depends upon whether or not you care enough to open yourself to this inner guidance of Divine Spirit so that you have some of the experience that are necessary to break through this hard human shell. Unless you do, you cannot rise into the higher states of awareness.


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

Sri Rebazar Tarzs
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.. We find that humility is the ability to see the divineness in each person, before it manifest outwardly, no matter who they are. For is not each being and creature a spark of the Divine SUGMAD? And as we learn from each man, we share the open heart, and love. Thus love and humility go together.



In THE COMPANY OF ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

OPENING To NEW IDEAS

. The information age has opened up so many subjects that used to be taboo. Not so many years ago, dreams were held in very low regard. But now people are starting to accept dreams. Television has broadcast so many shows about near-death experiences that people are getting quite accustomed to hearing about light, beings of light, and modern manifestations of angels. They don't need to rely on someone's account of a saint who lived three centuries ago or more.
. People today are experiencing the sort of miracles that the church would not acknowledge just a few short years ago. People even claim to be out of their bodies - can you imagine! Doctors, social philosophers, and religionists are now studying the question: Were they really out of their body, or was this some sort of mind trip?
. Someday people will even get used to the fact of Soul Travel. This goes beyond astral travel and mind travel, the common teachings of psychic groups. Generally, astral travel takes the individual to the next plane closest to the earth, the Astral Plane, which is the plane of emotion - the area where emotions originate. Some of the more spiritually advanced people can go on the mental areas with mind travel. This sort of travel can take them to the lower Mental Plane, which is the Causal Plane; then to the true Mental Plane; and finally to the high area of the Mental Plane, which is the Etheric Plane.
. But only Soul Travel, which is the care and teaching of the ECK Masters, can take you to the Soul Plane.




Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master
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This will also bear out the importance of having a teacher who is living in the flesh. Once Jesus was gone from earth, he was unable to keep his message clear. Eventually, his followers lapsed into rituals instead of the randomly needed for spiritual consciousness. They could have their teacher, present in the Light body, as you do me. But this can only work as long as the teacher resides in the physical. Otherwise, if the teacher is gone, the physical -plane connection is broken and the student cannot verify the reality of the teachings from the Light body of the master. This is where psychic interpretation enters. The student believes he is contacting his master gone from the flesh, which he may very well be doing-but often the student is fabricating an Astral trait of himself. Without the ever upward prodding of the Living ECK Master, the student runs into introversion,a stoppage of unfoldment, seldom rising above the astral illusion he has of his master. The Living ECK Master is needed to give and verify the inner relationship that deepens and leads the student to the very heart of SUGMAD.


In The COMPANY Of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

Divine truth is one and unchanging. Desire truth and you will then find the inner meaning unfolding. Everything has its origin in Spirit. One decides to invent a machine. He first creates it in thought, believing in its power to do a certain work. Then he takes the necessary steps to bring it into visible being. We ask and believe and give something mental existence. The necessary step are unfolded from within to bring it into visible being. So you see,a Master states divine truth, when he says we must ask and believe, to have. Unless we first give a thing mental existence it can never have physical existence.
. Do not be in too much of a hurry for it may take time.
. Yaubl Sacabi, the great ECK Master, says: "There are three basic truths. They are: One-We are the offspring and heirs of God. Therefore we inherit the power to mold the God power by the thoughts we think. Two-What we think, if held to, comes to pass in our lives. Thus we learn by experience. Three -Through learning by experience, we become conscious children of God, and presently come into the glorious liberty of the children of God."


Sri Paul Twitchell
Flute of God

.. Do you feel it is a requirement to willingly sacrifice your life to be a CO-worker with the Mahanta? You need not worry. Eckankar is the path for lovers of life, so an eagerness to live, to survive must always be an overriding passion with you. Hold on to this gift of life at all costs.
. Do you tremble at the prospect of an asteroid striking Earth and causing devastation all around? What if it does? The point is, how would you respond?
. . Would you quiver in some dark corner? Should such a calamitous event occur, many displaced people would need assistance. Show courage! Be strong for others. My words here are not a foreshadowing of a planetary disaster, but a gentle reminder that we exist to serve others. Make this life count.



Wisdom of the Heart. Book 3
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

.. Another point: a global disaster need not happen. The Atlanteans, in their long history, turned from love and service to a grab for power and conquest. So its scientific discoveries were often turned toward malicious ends. They unbalanced the cosmic energies, which in turn, brought a shower of asteroids, and even larger bodies, down upon earth.
.. It did not have to happen. The mental energies of a people turned evil do rebound upon them. It is called national karma. Nations, too, must make amends for violations of spiritual law, for it is God's law.



Wisdom of the Heart. Book 3
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi, a thirteenth-century Persian sage, poet, and ECK follower, had oceans of it (Wisdom), there was so much. And if you decide to read his poetry, I would strongly recommend any of Coleman Barks's version. They dance with the spirit of life! He starts with scholarly translations by others and makes magnificent, easy-to-read poetry from them. Yet he stays true to Rumi's meanings.
. Here again, I would point you to A Year with Rumi by Coleman Barks. It is a collection of poetry that presents a short poem for each day of the year. The poems are short and profound. Any of Barks's books of Rumi's poetry are outstanding.
. In fact, the poems in the aforementioned book are an excellent study for any of you who have a compelling desire to express your love for all things divine, to either yourself or others.
. Here are a few short poems with my brief comments to help your understanding, if needed:



Wisdom of the Heart. Book 3
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

... Water and the Moon (February 10)
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. . There is a path from me to you
. . that I am constantly looking for,

. . so I try to keep clear and still
. . as water does with the moon.

. . . When I am with You (February 23)
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. . When I am with you, we stay up all night.
. . When you are not here, I can't go to sleep.

. . Praise God for these two insomnias
. . And the difference between them.

. Rumi here speaks of Shamus-i-Tabriz, Shams, the ECK Master who was his teacher in the thirteenth century. But he refers mainly to the inner side of Shams, his Inner Master. This Inner Master reflects a state of consciousness. It is a state that Rumi wishes to enter into. The paradox is that when Shams comes, Rumi is fully, gloriously awake all night, though his human body may appear to be asleep or in contemplation.
. Coleman Barks has a rare gift. He can render Rumi's poems into a clear, vibrant images. And please note that the titles are a creation of Barks. Rumi gave only a single-word title to the whole collection of his poetry: Mathnawi (Masnavi) . It means "couplets."




Wisdom of the Heart. Book 3
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. Note, too, that Rumi takes a reader down unexpected lanes with his poetry. These are far from ordinary poems, for they show the wisdom that comes of a deep love for God.
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.Who Makes These Changes? (September 20)
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. . Who makes these changes?
. . I shoot an arrow right.
. . It lands left.
. . I ride after a deer
. . and find myself chased by a hog.
. . I plot to get what I want
. . and end up in prison.
. . I dig pits to trap others
. . and fall in.
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. . I should be suspicious
. . Of what I want
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. The Moments You Have Lived (October 16)
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. . As essence turns to ocean,
. . the particles glisten.
. . Watch how in this candleflame instant
. . blaze all the moments you have lived.
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. Rumi was truly a follower of ECK. Our hearts felt thanks to Coleman Barks for making him accessible to us. Read, enjoy, and contemplate on these evidence of one Soul's great love for God.



Wisdom of the Heart. Book 3
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

More importantly is to have a true look at yourself today: Who and what you are here and now.
. This is more important than a look at the past or a look at the future, even though we in ECK know that the past, present, and future are all one. They are a continuum. The past still exist now, the future is here and now, and as is the present. They're all mixed, back and forth, in and out.
. But with the logical mind, it's a linear way of thinking. We separate the continuum of life into three separate parts: Past, present, and future. And we build walls between.
. In building these walls, we sometimes limit ourselves, limit the potential of what can occur through the gifts of the Holy Spirit.


Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

The Mahanta Is the Dream Master


. The Mahanta, the inner form of the Living ECK Master, is the Dream Master. One way he guides his spiritual students is through their dreams. He uses the dreams of an individual to help work out karma and to impart spiritual understanding. The goal of an ECKist is to move at will between the outer, or physical, world and the inner spiritual worlds. This can be done via the Spiritual Exercises of ECK and by the conscious use of dreams.



ECKANKAR Ancient Wisdom for Today
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

For the members of ECK there are discourses to help you to another stage of understanding yourself spiritually. But the greatest unfoldment comes not through the books, discourses, or talks that happen on the outer side, in the physical world. The greatest unfoldment happens on the inner planes, in your dream worlds, through your intuition, through nudges, and sometimes more directly through visions and Soul Travel.
. These are Divine Spirit's way of helping you. This is how the Mahanta works.
. The Mahanta works to help you, to lift you, so you can understand why you're even in this life and why it pays to go on, because some days it seems almost impossible. You wonder, Why bother? Well, bother.


Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

Obi901:
For the members of ECK there are discourses to help you to another stage of understanding yourself spiritually. But the greatest unfoldment comes not through the books, discourses, or talks that happen on the outer side, in the physical world. The greatest unfoldment happens on the inner planes, in your dream worlds, through your intuition, through nudges, and sometimes more directly through visions and Soul Travel.
. These are Divine Spirit's way of helping you. This is how the Mahanta works.
. The Mahanta works to help you, to lift you, so you can understand why you're even in this life and why it pays to go on, because some days it seems almost impossible. You wonder, Why bother? Well, bother.


Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

Bros I dey feel you.

Always psyched to read your posts in my feed.

. Whatever comes along in your life, it's good to remember that it's always a gift from the Holy Spirit, to strengthen you. There will be days when you seriously wonder if you can bear up to one more such gift, even one short hour more of purification. But you can. It does take lots of love and trust, though.
. Above all, know that life itself is a gift. When you look around and can say, "I'm still here!"- then some of the old circumstances that have sorely tried you will lift from your heart.
. Say thank you to the ECK for the blessings. So open your heart. The Sound and Light of God can freely flow into you and make all things new.
. The experiences of life will teach how to make better choices. And how to profit with lessons learned from old, hard-to-manage conditions.
. Count your blessings. Learn from mistakes of old and create a world of a new, higher state of consciousness.




Wisdom of the Heart. Book 3
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

@Buddhapalm
Thanks man. One love.

. Dag Hammarskjöld, once UN secretary - general, made an acute observation. " We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny," he said. "But what we put into it is ours."
. Now what is that if not a distinction between fate and free will? Fate is the baggage one carries from birth into this life, but free will is the divine creativity he employs to make his load lighter. It also determines why some people are happy and thrive in conditions that throw lesser sorts into fits of wretchedness and grief.
. Your state of consciousness governs your satisfaction or unhappiness with life. It's on your shoulders. It is up to you and you alone, and no other.
. So what will it be - fruit juice, vinegar, or tea for thee?
. What quality lifts Soul above the five passions of lust, anger, greed, vanity, and too much attachment to material things? What can lift you above this pollution that covers earth and its affairs like a shroud?
. Of course, it is love. Divine Love.





Wisdom of the Heart. Book 3
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

Usually the seeker is not aware of truth within arm’s reach, because his limited vision can capture only the hard realities caught within it. There is nothing wrong with this. There is always another step to truth.
—Harold Klemp The Language of Soul

.. . Introduction

. When you travel the road to God, you venture into uncharted territory. Sometimes a crossroads will appear: Which direction do you take? Decisions made in the smallest parts of your life can affect the success of your journey.
. How do you decide? Is there anyone who has been there before and can answer your questions?
. The sincere seeker of truth often finds that his real questions go without an answer and his inner experiences with the Light and Sound of God are not explained. Where can he find someone who has already traveled the road to God- and come back to tell about it?
. Harold Klemp is one such person. He is a modern day prophet.
. Key to the ECK teachings is the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. He indeed acts as both the Outer and Inner Master for ECK students. The prophet of Eckankar, he is given respect but is not worshiped. He teaches the sacred name of God, HU. When sung just few minutes each day, HU will lift you spiritually into the Light and Sound of God - to the ECK (Holy Spirit). This easy spiritual exercise and others will purify you. You are then able to accept the full love of God in this very lifetime.
. Sri Harold Klemp is the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master today.




Ask the Master
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

Sri Quetzalcoatl

. Fear makes believers of men when it becomes overwhelming.
. Guilt is fear. It is an external device of the lower worlds. When an action is done that you know is wrong for yourself and others, the inner voice tells you so. Guilt occurs when you open yourself to the willing critics of the wrong done. This is unnecessary, for the inner knows what payment is to be extracted. There is no shame or guilt involved, just compensation without emotion or ridicule. The opinions of the outer world have no place or importance here. But the guilt of the outer world will try to make you pay for the debt as long as it can. There is no logic to it, as it is a form of negative indulgence. Until the individual has his eyes and ears opened by the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master via the ECK, he will be a slave.
. "There is but one day to live and rectify life's wrongful situations and to escape the net of karma. That is to live and to do all things in the name of the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. By this, I do not mean that one heaps his dirty actions and attitude upon the Master to clean up, so one can go skipping away free from responsibility!
. It means that the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master is the inner and outer guide. When you come to a decision and you are not sure how to handle it, ask the Mahanta on the inner, what is the course I should pursue in this situation? If you cannot decipher the answer, you can ask yourself, What would the Living ECK Master do in a similar situation?
. "The Mahanta is always giving directions-provided you ask and have the attunement to listen. The Inner Master resides within your heart, always giving directions, never wrong. It is our interpretations to these directions that causes misunderstandings. Life itself will confirm or reveal the correct answer.
. "This play of life, thousands of years distant, is not foreign to present-day man, for you see the exploitation of guilt through fears occurs today in more numerous ways than before, and all for the benefit of those in power.
. "You alone have the power to free yourself of guilt by placing your life in the hands of the Mahanta. But ah, I detect some resistance to this statement? Then think on this: By placing your life in the hands of the teacher, the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master, you place your welfare in the hands of the highest consciousness in existence - higher than you could imagine- for this is the direct representative of the true creator, the SUGMAD."


In the COMPANY of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

. A TEACHER FOR EVERY STATE OF
. CONSCIOUSNESS


. A person of another faith will likely have a bond with the spiritual leader of his own faith, and that is as it should be. God has created all religions and all spiritual leaders to fit a certain place in the lives of certain people. No spiritual leader is going to be right for everyone. I don't say I am.
. Each person has to decide whether or not any other person is going to be their spiritual tutor. That is not something that any human law can decree. That doesn't work in the spiritual teachings.
. God has given a teacher for every state of consciousness.
. Sometimes this teacher is not a religion. The teacher can be your boss at work. Or this individual may be your mate. Divine Spirit, the ECK, will bring the words of wisdom that you need for your spiritual unfoldment through someone very close to you. It can come through the words or hug of a child. It can come through the cry of a baby. It can come through the love of your pet, your dog or cat, as it comes up to you too greet you when you come home from work.
. We in human state of consciousness are sometimes too protective of what ways God can our cannot show love to Soul. We think well, Good isn't going to show love through my dog, because my dog has fleas. Or not through my cat, because my cat has worms.



Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

. . . Wayshower
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. Many people, not acquainted with the simplicity of ECK, mock the teachings in favor of methods that seem more sophisticated but essentially are very shallow. I constantly look for some way to get through to you, the dreamer, and especially to those of you who are having a difficult time with your dream studies.
. I always come back to the definition of the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master as a Wayshower. He is not a way-pusher or a way-dragger who kicks and shoves you through the inner worlds. The Wayshower is, quite simply, someone who shows the way.
. He can show each of you your own home to God. He can guide you through the inner worlds, pointing out where it is safe to go and where is not so safe to go. But he can be a Wayshower only to those who recognize him and listen to his instructions for working in the dream state.




The Dream Master
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. .Are You Ready
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. I cannot force people into a direction they don't want to go. If they don't want to go that way, they just won't go. Yet, I feel a certain responsibility when someone writes to me and says, "I'm getting nowhere. I'm not making any progress.
. Sometimes it's just as well that they aren't going anywhere in the dream state, because they aren't ready. If you move too fast, before you're ready, it can be an upsetting experience.
. For some people, it's like trying to skydive. They may have the desire to do it, but the first few times they attempt to jump out of the plane, they freeze up. What if the parachute doesn't open? For the time being, they feel much safer on land.
. Not everybody is prepared for an experience like the inner skydive. It's too far removed from what they are used to doing. You have to build up to these things.





The Dream Master
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . INNER AND OUTER MASTER
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. Someone observed that in my talks, I was very careful to separate the Dream Master from the Outer Master. It seemed to him almost schizophrenic.
. Many people not in ECK do not understand that the Inner Master and the Outer Master are really of the same origin. The same ECK Current, the same flow, operates them both. I break it down for ease of understanding
. . WHAT YOU'RE LEARNING IN ECK
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. The Dream Master wants to teach you how to begin to create a better life for yourself, both here and in the inner worlds. Because, when we leave this world, we will still continue our exploration of all creation.
. The inner planes are as real as the world out here. They are populated with individuals who are on missions, just as you are here. The second, third, and fourth heavens are filled with people who are still trying to find the way to God. They too are engaged in one activity or another, whether a profession or a field of art. They too are gaining experience so that they may become better and more compassionate instruments for the Holy Spirit and the Sugmad.
. This life provides the experiences needed to become the very best - not in a mechanical, mental way, but spiritually. In the process, you may become very good at your profession or some other facet of life, but what you are really doing is learning to open your heart to love.



The Dream Master
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. THE STRUGGLE OF AN EMPEROR MOTH
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. A biologist found the cocoon of an emperor moth and took it to his lab for study. What a wonderful opportunity to watch it come out and unfold into a slender creature with beautiful wings, he thought. It sat on his lab table for quite a while. Finally the cocoon began to tremble as the moth made its efforts to come out into the world.
. The scientist noticed that the cocoon was shaped like a bottle, wide at the bottom but very narrow at the top. The top was surrounded by a concretelike substance. The scientist thought there was no way the moth would make it through that hard material.
. He watched the cocoon for a while, growing more and more impatient. Finally he decided to help the moth out. He would make it a little easier for the moth to get into the world. Using tiny pair of scissors, he carefully cut through the concretelike rim at the top of the cocoon. The moth popped out almost instantly.
. The biologist waited for the moth to spread its beautiful wings and show its pretty colors. But nothing happened. The moth was misshapen, with a huge body and very tiny wings. He watched it walk around slowly, unable to lift itself off the table. Eventually it died, never having flown.
. The scientist began to read about the emperor moth, trying to figure out what had happened. He found that other biologist had made the same mistake he had. They too had tried to ease the moth's difficult entry into the world by cutting the lip of the cocoon. But they had discovered the purpose for the cocoon being wide at the bottom with narrow neck and a very tight top.
. As the moth forces itself through the narrow neck of the cocoon, it must streamline its body. The fluids in its body are squeezed into the wings. This process makes the wings large and the body small. When it finally emerges into the world, the emperor moth is a creature unsurpassed in beauty.
. The biologist realized that he had actually done the moth a disservice by sparing it what he considered unnecessary hardship. Deprived of its natural birthing process, the moth had emerged a misshapen creature, incapable of fulfilling its potential.
. It might seem like an apparent contradiction that the emperor moth must go through such a slow, intense struggle to get out of its cocoon in order to be born into the world as a beautiful creature.
. Quite often the ECKists approach the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master to complain about the hardships in their life. 'Why is my life so difficult?" They'll ask. "Why can't you take this burden away from me?" The problems they cite generally fall under three major categories: Health, finances, and love life. If the problem isn't resolved quickly enough for them, they'll ask, "Haven't you any power?"
. They don't realize that an intervention at the wrong time, or too soon, can create a misshapen form not properly prepared to reach the high worlds of God, the Sugmad.




The Dream Master
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. WHAT DO I HAVE TO LEARN?
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. The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master realizes even when the chela is kicking and struggling in the cocoon of his own troubles that this struggle is good for him. The individual can work out of it, if he will just keep trying. The Law of Life provides the way to higher consciousness as surely as the moth is given a way out of the cocoon.
. You must always remember this. When hardships come, don't automatically ask God to deliver you from them. Perhaps it would be wiser to ask: What do I have to learn before I am delivered from this problem? Then direct your attention and creativity toward the spiritual lesson to be learned as you try to get out of your cocoon. In doing this, you develop the sublime beauty of Soul.



The Dream Master
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. SOUL IS UNIQUE
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. There are a number of recognized religions in the world. But in truth, there are as many religions in the world as there are people. Soul is unique, an individual being. No two Souls are alike. No two people have exactly the same experiences. Therefore, no two people have exactly the same outlook on life.
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. . A RELIGION THAT RESPONDS TO SOUL
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. Those with similar outlook often come together in loosely or tightly knit groups. These are labeled religions. Within each group is a central core of people who follow its teachings from cradle to grave. Others, travelers on the boundaries of the established beliefs, are just passing through. They haven't found the teaching that responds to their own spiritual needs.
. How do they know that a religion doesn't respond? They aren't always able to put it into words because their reasons may not seem logical. Yet they know they are not satisfied with what they have.



The Dream Master
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master