. Connecting Diamonds

. Events are like diamonds. Invincible lines connect them, a part of a divine plan. The God lover learns to see and follow these lines, for they smooth his way. They lead over holy ground. It is there that the Holy Spirit does the wonders that help an individual do what he cannot do alone. It shields him. Its love and mercy are the grace that put joy and goodness into everyday life.


. There is a spiritual principle called connecting diamonds that is at work every day of our lives, whether we are aware of it or not. . . .
. Let's look at an example:
. An old friend of an ECKist came to town for a visit. The two decided to find a billiard parlor and enjoy an afternoon of billiards. They looked in the phone directory, found the location of a few places, then set out for one. Although they had agreed to try the first place on their list, the driver was actually en route to the second location before either noticed the error. So they turned around. To save time, and with map in hand, they took a shortcut along some unfamiliar streets. Soon they reached their destination. But the billiard tables were all full, which meant either waiting for a table or else trying to find another parlor with an open table. So they left.
. They climbed back into the car, checked the map, then set out for the second choice on their list - a location many miles distant, on the other side of town.
. By an odd coincidence, the second place happened to be on the very same street. However, this fact was not apparent to them as they drove, because their route ran along city streets, onto a freeway, then back onto city streets again. But this second billiard parlor, which the driver had instinctively set out for at the start, was on the street as the first, although many miles apart.
. This is an example of connecting diamonds.
. It works like this: We perceive of some idea that we feel will enrich our life at that very moment. We make a plan. Then we set out from home to accomplish the first leg of our search, but find the ECK is actually trying to get us to go directly to the second place. We resist the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We check our original plans(road map) again and try to find a shortcut to the place we think we should be at. When we arrive, nothing works out.
. The trip is not a loss, however, unless we become discouraged and head straight home.
. But giving up is too easy. If, instead, we decide to pursue our original plan, we will bring out the map again and try to find a new route to our destination. In doing so, we often find that a line connects all the main points in our quest. Individuals who know and follow this principle of connecting diamonds are usually happy and successful in life.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of DESTINY

. Soul comes into the world to accomplish an assortment of tasks; these assignments taken as a whole make up Its destiny.
. Soul enters this world to accomplish a collection of tasks. Taken as a whole, these assignments make up Its destiny. To set the tone for Its mission, Soul may come into either a healthy body or a sickly one; into comfortable means or poverty; with great intellect or a simple mind; with the favored color of skin for that era or not; once a male, again a female.
. Destiny, as a concept, is waning in popularity in Western society today. People want to run their own lives. They want to shape their own tomorrows.

. The primal seed for each incarnation is under the umbrella of destiny, known to us also as past life karma. On a practical level, genetic, cultural, and social elements combine to determine Soul's position in this world. For people on the lower end of the survival scale, the Lord of Karma alone chooses the time and place of rebirth. By definition, the survival scale is a yardstick of one's can-do instincts. But karma placement does allow some people a voice in their place of birth. These are the individual near the top of the scale, who are always creative in some way - usually cheerful, upbeat people. Because of gains made in past-life unfoldment, they have won a say in choosing their present incarnation.
. Destiny can be thought of as the equipment, talents, or gifts which a person brings to this life. It remains for each to use them wisely.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. THE LAW OF DETACHMENT

. Vairag, one of the five virtues and remedy for moha, attachment. Giving up strong affection for the environment and possession, but not ceasing to identify with them; becoming independent of them; mentally free from love of the world and all worldly desires.

. Detachment is something we know about in the spiritual life. It doesn't mean not to get involved; it means to not let outer circumstances throw off your inner balance.

. The word detachment is too cold. What is meant in spiritual terms is this - we, as one with all, will have a certain amount of pleasure and pain, but will not let it affect our emotional balance too greatly to throw our minds into the extreme poles of joy or sorrow. The real control is detachment from fear. Once you have gained this important attribute of God, then you can enjoy greater life. Yes, you can have a joy mixed with pain and not be affected to the same extent as previously. Only when fear is in control of those two poles is your life attached to its physical, mental, and spiritual possessions. Give up fear and you need never give up another thing in your life. Great joys physically, mentally, and spiritually can become yours, balanced by what sorrows there need be in your life!

. The vairag is the detached state of consciousness. This goes along with God-Realization. Detached does not mean without compassion, uncaring, without love. It means simply that you can have compassion, you can enjoy life, but if sorrow comes into your life, it does not burden you until the end of your days. You are able to see the hand of God in it.

. Detached does not mean unemotional; it means that no matter what we have in life, we will not be crushed if it is taken from us. It means we have the attitude of total trust in life to give us what is for our own spiritual benefit.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. THE LAW OF DISCRIMINATION

. Discrimination. Viveka, one of the five virtues, is the ability to make right judgments; the recognition that there is no good nor evil, no beauty nor ugliness, no sin, and that these are concepts of the mind, the dual forces in the matter worlds; to distinguish between those actions which contribute to spiritual growth and those which are a waste of time. The remedy for self-indulgence, kama.

. Viveka. The first step in Eckankar; right discrimination; being able to discriminate between what will be good for spiritual advancement or would be wasting time; one of the five virtues; the opposite of and remedy for kama, lust.

. It requires a high level of discrimination to avoid breaking the spiritual law.

. In order to know when to speak and when to remain silent, you must apply the Law of Discrimination.

. Discrimination just means making the right choices. Some people have an uncanny knack for making the wrong choices, and that's why they have the problems they do. They'll get into one unhappy marriage after another. Two, three, four times the mate turns out to be an alcoholic. You say, "What bad luck!" But it's not bad luck. Soul, who is making the choice, has poor discrimination and makes poor choices.
. How do you change this? First you have to look at your own weakness. Then you have to also know how to grow and develop spiritually. Generally it's through singing the ancient name of God, HU. This or one of the other spiritual exercises helps.

. God speaks through dreams, intuition, and sometimes the voices of other people who have more experience than we do. But unless we have opened our heart through singing HU, we won't have the discrimination to know wisdom when we hear it.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of ECONOMY

. Using our resources to the fullest; no matter what thought we have or what action we take, it results in the most productive deed we can do as Soul learning to become a Co-worker with God.

. We can kid ourselves all we want, but the spiritual law is that we have to pay, in some way, for everything we get. This comes under the Law of Economy, which operates in the lower worlds up to the Mental Plane. Higher laws, such as the Law of Love, prevail in the spiritual worlds, but down here we are in the worlds of dichotomies - lack of plenty, high and lows, riches and poverty.
. Karma and reincarnation come under the Law of Economy. If you direct your spiritual energies in the most straightforward way, always keeping in mind where you are going, you will get through these rebirths faster than if you get sidetracked.
. You pick a goal, such as God-Realization. Then you open yourself to the Holy Spirit, the ECK, and make your way directly through life to accomplish the goal. There will be help along the way. You take it as it comes, even though it may not seem to fit into your beliefs up to that time.
. The Law of Economy starts down here in the physical.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . The LAW of FACSIMILES

. The sixth law of the physical universe, that all effects in life are brought about by the thoughts and pictures in the mind of the individual.

. Facsimiles deal with those pictures you took in the mind. These pictures have been with you since you came into the world. They are filed away by Soul, like cards in a little niche in the Soul's body. . . Generally, facsimiles are either borrowed or they are one's own. One can have either or both through a compulsive basis or on an unknowing basis. They will influence him in one way or another. . . .

. Secondary sources, to us, refer to people who claim someone else's experiences as their truth. They live by facsimile. This type of experience is secondhand and breeds faith.
. The difference between a primary and secondary source is the difference between knowing and faith. In ECK, we want to know what life is all about via our own personal experience here on the physical plane, as well as in the inner worlds.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . The INVISIBLE LAWS

. The seven principles of consciousness. . . are as follows: 1. Appreciation, 2. Sincerity, 3. Unselfishness, 4. Idealism, 5. Devotion, 6. Personal effort, and 7. Attainment

. These are the invisible laws. . . . For example
. 1. Appreciation is - appreciation of the teacher;
. 2. Sincerity is - to inspire the seeker to seek higher levels of consciousness;
. 3. Unselfishness - the willingness to sacrifice the individual self to the universe;
. 4. Idealism - the faculty of perceiving spiritual values through a perfect pattern;
. 5. Devotion - to fill the mind and Soul with love, aspiration and giving of the self to universal consciousness;
. 6. Personal effort - spiritual motivational force of intelligence which is within all men;
. 7. Attainment - the reward for spirit action.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . THE LAW OF KARMA

. The Law of Cause and Effect, action and reaction, justice, retribution, and reward, which applies to the lower or psychic worlds: The Physical, Astral, Causal, Mental, and Etheric Planes; a facet of the Law of Love, purifies people by holding them responsible for their thoughts and deeds, both to themselves and others; the Law of Universal Compensation which is under the Law of Vibration; inflow and outflow; a matter of vibrations; one of the twelve laws by which the universes are sustained.

. There is simply no such thing as righteous anger. The ECK doesn't recognize any distinction between anger for a cause and anger for no cause. Through the Law of Karma, the ECK impartially doles out justice whenever there is any imbalance of emotions.

. People who practice psychic healing may get away with it for years, because the Law of Karma is in no hurry. Spirit has plenty of time; It's in no hurry to collect the debt that a man has created. A psychic healer may be very good for ten, twenty, even forty years; but then his health all of a sudden may go bad. The karma has come home; it must be paid. He doesn't know what happened, only that he can heal others but not himself. Furthermore, he doesn't know why it happened. He has absolutely no understanding that he violated the laws of Spirit.

. When one has not attained the high states of spiritual consciousness, this Law of Karma does not come back immediately. The higher you go in your awareness, the quicker the law comes back. That's good in one way and bad in another. I'd say overall it's good because as soon as you cheat someone, for instance, the law strikes and you get the karma over with sooner. The higher you go, the narrower becomes the path - some call it the razor's edge.
. People who do not really have any regard for the spiritual law may just be learning life, taking it as they find. The law does not demand its payment sometimes for two, ten , twenty, or thirty years, or maybe not until the next lifetime. When the payment doesn't come due as soon as the violation of the spiritual law is committed, the person thinks he's getting away scot-free. But there must be full payment in the true coin for every action.

. One of the benefits of the path of ECK is that much of our karma can be worked off on the inner planes so that we don't have to go through it here. If we've created debts, they must be repaid to God. But on the path of ECK we have this advantage: They do not always have to be worked out here on the physical; they can be worked off on the inner planes in the dream state.

. We have been spoon-fed with ideas of a God who will heal us no matter what we do wrong. Some people think all they have to do is ask. They feel they can give advice to others that might destroy their lives, and by saying, God, please forgive me, it will be all be forgotten. Unfortunately, these people are ignorant of the spiritual law. St. Paul said "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," and it means just that. You can kid yourself. A person can eat wrong until it affects his health and then reason that he can always find a doctor who will take care of him. Or he may ask God for a healing. And if it doesn't work he thinks, God didn't heal me; therefore, the God of this faith must not be right. In truth he has incurred a debt to Spirit; he himself must pay it back. No one can help him except himself.

. The Law of Karma is exact in its measure. To cure a health problem several years in the making often takes a like amount of time for healing. There is no magic way to get an instant, long-term cure without our taking a part in the rebuilding.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . Continuation of the LAW of KARMA

. People who do psychic healings are often plagued by karmic overload. They don't know how to be detached about it. They get so emotional about the health of their patients that they find themselves constantly ill.
. It happens simply because they do not recognize or understand the Law of Karma. They don't realize that the people who come to them for a healing have earned those illnesses through violation of some spiritual law.

. Things move very rapidly once an individual comes into Eckankar. Sometimes it seems as if the Law of Karma speeds up. But rather than a speeding up of karma, the experiences is more a by product of expanded awareness.

. The Law of Karma works in a certain way for most people who are not in ECK. A curtain stands between cause and effect. In ECK, very soon after you do something that hinders you or someone else spiritually, the curtain is pulled up and the deed comes right back at you. It happens quickly enough to be within reach of your memory so that you can learn from it. Sometimes the act comes back so fast that the only way to miss the lesson would be to develop total amnesia.
. In other teachings, where the Light and Sound of God is not as direct, the curtain between cause and effect stays down much longer.

. Life will always teach you better. This is the basis of the Law of Karma: What you sow, you reap. And in the reaping of what we've sown, we gain spiritual wisdom.

. An ECKist who is aware of the exact nature of the Law of Karma can sidestep the shadow of envy that often engulfs those who do not understand the sudden good fortune of others. All is in its rightful place. Everything is at the exact station it deserves in life, so he can get on with his own unfoldment and keep a cheerful spirit.

. Everyone thinks of karma as bad stuff that happens to you for the bad stuff you did. But karma is the good and the bad. In other words it's cause and effect, anything that occurs.
. If you want something from life, you must first earn it.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. THE LAW OF NATURE

. The laws of the negative power; the laws of the physical universe; the natural laws.

. While on Earth man is subject to the laws of the negative power, or what are often termed "The laws of Nature."

. To understand ourselves and our place in the world, we might pay more attention to the natural laws, to the life cycle of animals and plants.

. If we wish to understand what is to be and what is right, we simply study the laws of nature. Nature shows how truth has manifested itself in the past.

Usually the laws of nature can be bent when there is a need for protection or for a spiritual lesson. Usually the experience is given as a way for an individual to learn something that could not be learned any other way. He is raised to a higher state of consciousness much in the same way as when he travels to a Temple of Golden Wisdom.

. The law of nature usually sees change occur gradually.

. Nature reflects the laws of ECK. Therefore, observe its workings in the habits of birds, the cycles of plants, and the instincts of reptiles and mammals. All sing the glory of ECK; all teach the secrets of life. Watch the coming and going of clouds, the waxing and waning of the moon, and the rising and setting of the sun. They reveal the natural order of creation. Everything is right when there is neither too much nor too little for the time and place. So is it also with your spiritual life.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . THE LAW OF POLARITY

. The Law of Opposites. The third law of the physical universe; the state of opposition between any two related factors; yin and yang ( negative and positive) , feminine and masculine; the negative, or reactive, side and the positive, or active, side; the third part is the passive, or middle, path; each thing within this universe is supported, animated, maintained by, and in opposition to its opposite.

. This law states that every phenomenon, on whatever scale and in whatever world it may take place, from molecular to cosmic phenomena, is the result of combining the meeting of the two, plus the third, which is the passive middle. This is not the passive element that you find in negation, but a balancing of the two. It is the path which Buddha called the "Middle Path" . . . . Scientific thought today realizes the existence of positive and negative forces. . . . But science has never raised the question of a third force. According to exact divine science, one force, or two forces, can never produce phenomena. The presence of the third is always necessary to produce any phenomenon. This neutral force is not easily accessible to direct observation and understanding.
. The idea of the unity of the three in Absolute ECK forms the basis of the three worlds and of the ancient teachings.

. Within this material universe the Law of polarity, or Law of Opposites, operates. Nothing exists except in relation to its opposite. This is also true within the psychic worlds: Astral, Causal, and Mental. However, within the heavenly worlds this is not true; for here it is true that there are no opposites, although the sacred scriptures of the worlds say so.
. These scriptures claim that the good go into some heavenly paradise while the evil will be punished forever in some fiery region. This is the Law of the Opposites, or Polarity. Those who are good attract the good, and those who are evil will attract the evil. Therefore, in the heavenly states, it's found that polarity or chemistry within two objects no longer exists, and that Soul is free to do whatever It desires as long as it falls within a general pattern of the heavenly law. This law is: Love is all, and do as thou wilt.

. One of these laws is: "Nothing can exist except in relation to its opposite." This is an age-old principle of the positive and negative. The positive is the outgoing, the God force; and the negative is the inert, receptive force.
. For example, laughter must have its opposite, tears; and neither can the universe have complete joy without sorrow. Therefore, this universe is not static, but is a constant dynamic state. There is nothing eternal on this plane but change itself. This is where God arrives in our lives, for behind the change lies the eternal, the unchanging which the outer eye cannot see. As long as anything exists on the mental and physical plane, it is due to be in constant change.
. Now, the second principle is, "That the positive is forever transforming into the negative and correspondingly, the negative is forever in the process of becoming the positive.". . .
. Each power needs the other in this world. Without one the other could not exist. . . . The teachings need to be revitalized and reformed to show the world how to take advantage of the two forces, not to put a strain upon the individual aspirant to hold to one constantly, when it is almost an impossibility unless he is trained by the ECK Master. Therefore, do not despair if the cycle strikes in a low depression at one time, and then later turns to the higher, and vice versa.

. Beyond the Soul Plane in those worlds of Spirit, we begin to work in the whole. There are no regions or planes that we know of; it is simply one world of Light. In the lower regions where we exist now, something can be known only by its counterpart - truth by untruth, light by darkness. At the Soul Plane as this ECK Stream, or Spirit of God, comes down from the God center, It splits into two parts: The positive and negative. We have manifestations of this spilt, and though we take it for granted, it shows up all around us. If you want to iron, you first put the plug into the wall outlet, and this uses alternating currents - the positive and the negative. We see the height of the mountains and the depths of the valleys, because the only way anything can be known in these lower worlds is in comparison to its opposite. We're always thinking in parts.

. When Soul enters into the regions of immortality, the worlds of true Spirit above the psychic worlds, It finds no opposites. Light is Light and there is no opposite to it and the sounds of ECK, only the polarity of the highest qualities. Therefore, the ECKist is a realist, for he knows how to use the Law of Polarity. When he has to use his consciousness in the psychic world, he is able to take advantage of the Law of Opposites. But when he is in the world of the true Kingdom of God, then he is able to use the Law of Polarity for his own benefit through conscious state.





The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of PROGRESSION (Unfoldment)

. Soul is inevitably bound to become a Co-worker with God. It means going through all the steps that lead to this. To teach Soul how to give and receive divine love.

. Spiritual unfoldment never stops; it goes on and on. No matter how far you have come today, you can go further tomorrow. And no matter how far you come in this lifetime, of necessity you must go much further in your next lifetime. Spiritual law requires that you go either forward or backward.

. The Law of Progression is linked to another grand law at the top of the lower planes: The Law of Economy.

. The Law of Unfoldment, then, is to teach Soul how to give and receive divine love.

. Since Soul entered this earthly theatre, It has been both the perpetrator and victim of an endless array of horrors. Each person who is alive today has been in either of the two roles times without number, testing the limits of the hidden spiritual laws that prohibit one individual from imposing upon another any limits to Soul's right to unfold in consciousness.

. The law of the universe is that each person has the right to choose his own course of progress on earth.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . THE LAW OF PROTECTION

. Follows the principle of "Speak not; harm not those who are the bearers of Light, for harm will come to him who does." The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master offers spiritual protection to all followers of ECK.

. The old Law of protection is this: "Nothing can hurt us unless we ourselves allow it!"

. A person always have free will. Even the Mahanta cannot give anyone protection unless that person allows him to do so, because that is the spiritual law.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . THE LAW OF REVERSED EFFORT

. The functioning of the imagination by negation which draws into the external that which one is trying to avoid.

. For example, the Law of Reversed Effort is simply that the harder a person struggles to archive 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.


. This is known in ECK as the Law of Reversed Effort! This law is a practical law of nature concerned only with man, for man is the only animal on earth that can make use of his imaginative powers! This law is concerned with the imagination.
. Take, for example, when one is trying to ride a bicycle through rocks on a road, trying to avoid hitting the large ones, he is so conscious of hitting the rocks he'll probably do so. Or if a man tries to walk across a small plank from one building to another at the tenth floor, his mind would be on falling and not on the walking. You see this law is concerned with imagination and feeling! What you image must have feeling - therefore the negative imaging is more likely to be effective than the positive imaging because the negative has feeling with it!


. The problem with surrender is that the more one tries to give something up, the harder it is to do. It is the Law of Reversed Effort.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . THE LAW OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH

. Truth has to be continually rediscovered, reformed, and transformed; the same truth has to be experienced in ever-new forms.

. Spiritual law governs when and how a seeker makes the leap from his immature beliefs to those of a higher nature that are very clear about an individual's right and responsibilities as a spiritual being.

. The Law of Growth in the lower worlds demands that everything must go slow and slower as it ages. Finally one settles into a rut, becomes less mobile, until death is the final state. Only the Spiritual Exercises of ECK can renew consciousness and insure Soul an escape from rebirth and death.

. Truth cannot be taken as one's own discovery, but it has to be continually rediscovered. It has to be reformed and transformed if its meaning, its living value and spiritual nourishment are to be preserved. This is known as the Law of Spiritual Growth, which results in the necessity to experience the same truth in ever-new forms,and to cultivate and propagate not so much the results, but the methods through which Soul obtains knowledge, experience, and reality.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. THE LAW OF UNITY

. The seventh law of the physical universe; thinking in the whole instead of parts.


. It is a simple way of knowing the solution to the problem the instant it presents itself. In a way this is called liberation from the bondage of the world, which men have always cried to their God to give them.
. This law simply means that one must be wholly within the ECK in order to enjoy himself as the whole man and be able to select consciously what he wants in life and work at it.


. Some of the ancient Greek philosophers used to think from the whole. They would consider the overview. Western man usually thinks in terms of the parts. Most people think only in fragments; and because they do, they can't step back and take a look at the whole situation, so a problem defeats them before they've taken even one step.





The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . THE LAW OF VIBRATION

. The fourth law of this universe is the Law of Vibration, or Harmonics: This is the law that governs all the influences upon Soul and body in this world, such as wavelengths, outflows from the planets, stars, and heavenly bodies; Under this principle falls karma, cause and effect and inflow and outflow.

. Close observance shows the manifestation of the Law of Harmonics in vibrations of every kind including light, heat, chemistry, and other vibratory sciences.

. From the seven scales of music, each octave, do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti, contains a good foundation for understanding the cosmic laws of vibration. Each octave has an ascending octave, in which frequency of vibrations increase. . . . As one goes along the scale, it is found to descend, after ti, and continue going around the scale again and again, until it makes a circle or something similar to a circle. This is true of the physical universe for nothing keeps a straight line.

. Nothing in the physical world stays in the same place, or remains what it was; everything moves, everything is going somewhere, is changing inevitably, either develops or goes down, weakens, or degenerates. . . . Ascent or descent is the inevitable cosmic condition of any action.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

Hi
Could you please continue to explain the spiritual laws of life
demelin from Republic of Bénin

. . Laws of Charity - The laws that bring Soul a greater capacity to love

@demilin
Thanks

. . Chela, Laws and Rules for the

. The laws and rules for the ECK chela are simple. These are to give harmony, purity, and perfection of Soul. This constitutes heaven while in the physical vehicle.

. He must practice the disciplines of ECK. The first is to have cleanliness of mind, that no words which would pollute the air enter into his mind. He shall look upon all men as creatures of God and this only; for they, like himself, are temples who shall eventually become Co-workers with God.
. He must, in mind, fast continuously from all Kal thoughts which could infect his mental state and consciousness. Through this he learns the powerful awareness of the presence of the Living ECK Master, who is with him constantly. He learns not to be deceived or dismayed by the conflicting world around him. He knows that all universes, regardless of whether or not they are under the rulership of Kal Niranjan, are really worlds of perfection, harmony, and good.
. He learns that patience is the greatest discipline of all the spiritual works of ECK. By patience he can endure life, hardships, karmic burdens, the slanders of men, and the pricks of pain and disease. He keeps his mind steadfastly upon the Light of God, never swerving, never letting up on his attention to the goal of God-Realization.
. He comes to know humility and chastity in his life on earth and that all his responsibility belongs to God, not to anyone nor anything within this physical realm. His loved ones, family, and relatives are the images of God, mirrored in this worldly life and embodiment to serve the Sugmad, the Supreme Deity. . . .
. He will come to discriminate between all things, that there is no good nor evil, no beauty nor ugliness, and there is no sin. That all these are concepts of the mind, the dual forces in the matter worlds. Once he recognizes and understand this, he will then be free of all the Kal traps.
. He will be ready to enter into the Kingdom of God, the Ocean of Love and Mercy.
. He will be the ECK, of Itself.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of CREATIVITY

. Every atom is striving continually to manifest more life; all are intelligent, and all are seeking to carry out the purpose for which they were created.

. Life is a mystery until we come to the path of ECK. We begin to understand that we can be the creators of our own world and that, in truth, what we are today is a creation of that which we have made from the past. There is a way to change the future, and we can do it. But you don't do it by wishing.
. When an individual looks for God-Realization, it has to be more than a passing fancy. It's not like a fashion that you only wear for a season; you don't just forget your high aspirations for God. It must be something that is within your heart in a gentle way. You know that no matter what happens on the path, it is always to lead you closer to the source of Soul's creation in the heart of God. Soul wants to return home.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . DANDA, the Righteous Law

. Danda Self-discipline; sometimes called the righteous law. It treats the divine rights of the people as well as that of kings. When it works both ways, it means that neither can trespass upon the other's rights. To have to write law upon the books and use this as a guide to keep society within the moral standards of life is to bring about disorder in a society. As the human race enters upon its decline in civilized standards, there is, and was, a transfer of the center of government from within man to enacted statutes; in other words, from moral standards deeply embedded in the inner consciousness of people to laws written in books. When the time came that the fundamental danda, the Law of Righteousness, was no longer in the hearts of people but in books, then the decline of civilization set in for society.
. It is only the ECK Masters who have witnessed such changes and have tried to lift the human race above the decline of every civilization in the history of mankind. The task is hard but since the Golden Age, long since passed, every ECK Master who has spent time upon this earth has gone through the Silver Age, the Copper Age, and others to witness the degenerative changes. Slowly has come the Iron Age, which marks the lowest ebb in individual and social degeneration. It is during this period that modern laws, government, and social regulations began to appear. Men, supposedly wise in nature, hailed these changes as progress. But it's not true that man has progressed in nature, but has decreased due to the workings of the Kal forces. He usually does not recognize such a negative force and, if he does at all, he scorns it as being nothing in his life.



. Those of you who wish to make the effort can also attain this self-mastery in life. You do not come to the point where you begin to direct or control Spirit,because Spirit will not be controlled or directed. People who try to do this are using the psychic powers, black magic. Instead, you let Spirit flow through you without any blocks or obstacles whatsoever. Eventually you become Its pure vehicle, as an ECK Master; and whatever It wants, you carry it out. When you get a direction on the inner planes, you immediately begin figuring ways to carry it out. Sometimes it may take a while. You pick priorities and begin working on them.





The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . THE LAW OF DHARMA

. Dharma. The Law of Life; the righteousness of life; doing what is right; the code of conduct that sustains the right ethics in life.

. A person who wishes to move from the ego to higher self in understanding does so through right action. We call it dharma.

. We are interested in learning how to live life fully, not how to contemplate and withdraw, or retreat, from life. By living fully, we get the experience we need to one day become a CO-worker with God. You need every conceivable experience. It's better to go out and do something that you would later find was wrong, than to do nothing. At least you learned something - even if it's only that you would never do it again - and you're smarter than you were before.





The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . . THE LAW OF ETHICS

. If we use Spirit we must follow the Law of ECK which is ethics, Its only limitation. If our originating intention is good, we may employ the spiritual power for what purpose we will. Ethics can be defined as that which is not selfish, which is good for the whole, which will not harm one and will do justice for all concerned - actions for the benefit of all. If we conform to this principle of obedience to the universal, the cosmic Law of Spirit, all will be well for ourselves and all others concerned.
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. Many ECKist grew up with Christian backgrounds. The moral codes came into play: Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not kill. These are moral codes. Ethics are similar, but they are at a higher level. A moral law is something society makes you do if you want to live at peace within that society. Ethics are the fine shadings: You do the right thing spiritually, even though you may not gain from it materially. You may even lose. But it is the right thing to do; it's the spiritual thing to do.
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. When you come to Eckankar and begin with the teachings of Light and Sound, your life is going to take a new direction.
. It will be a very straightforward and definite direction. Your life will become one of personal responsibility.
. I've been trying to bring you a code of conduct in the very simplest way I know. These are Richard Maybury's two laws. They are two simple laws discovered by someone who is not a member of Eckankar. "Do all you have agreed to do," and "Do not encroach on other persons or their property.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . . THE LAW OF GRATITUDE
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. Abundance flourishes in a grateful heart; gratitude is the secret of love.

. If you can learn to be grateful for the things that the Holy Spirit brings to you every day, you will have gained something that many other people have not found.

. Acknowledgement is done through gratitude, which keeps our hearts open to ECK. When gratitude is lost, the result is spiritual poverty. . . .
. . . Gratitude unseals fountain of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . . THE LAW OF LOVE


. The principle which gives thought the dynamic power to correlate with its object, and, therefore, to master every adverse human experience; feeling that imparts vitality to thought; feeling is desire, and desire is love.


. Before you leave this life,take the trouble to learn the secret doctrine of ECK. It is the Law of Love which alone can carry you to God.


. The Law of Love will bring to you the necessary materials for your spiritual growth and maturity.
. Therefore, if you require love, try to realize that the only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you get, and the only way in which you can give it is to fill yourself with it until you become a magnet of love.
. Simplified, the mechanics of love is this: Thought is a channel of emotions and is carried by the Law of Vibration, the same as light and electricity. It is given vitality by the emotions through the Law of Love; it takes form and expression by the Law of Growth; it is a product of Soul, and hence it is divine, spiritual and creative in nature.


. Since we know that we cannot love everybody equally, then we can love warmly Only a certain number; but according to the law we must give impersonal love to all.

. There are many routes we can take to heaven. God has established so many different paths and means for us that there is a way for everyone, including the atheist. This sounds almost like a humorous paradox, but it's true. An atheist can be closer to God than a Bible-carrying, born-again Christian, simply because the atheist may have a better understanding of the Law of Love.


Every man must first seek to give love if he expects to receive it. He must give it under every circumstance - even though he is abused, mistreated, and given unnecessary hardships in this world.

You find that spiritual ecstasy does not touch all. But those whom it does touch, feel love drenching all consciousness, overwhelming all being. Love is God, and love is an act of God. Memories, doubts, and fears are far away when perceived through love, dimmed by love that is in itself so absolute, so separate from logic, that nothing else matters. Death is only an incident. Tortures can be endured until one dies, but it does not matter. In the end, agony dies of its own nothingness, like irrecoverable years. Love lives forever! Pain and the past are nothing more than love's chrysalis, its shell, its seedbed, in which these necessary nothings release such real wonders, such as the comforting thrill of God's hand on one's shoulder.


Knowledge can bring many things, for knowledge comes from mind expansion, but the consciousness of the heart brings love, and love brings all things.

The greatest law of all is the Law of Love. And this is the law that you're interested in to find your way back home to God.

The spiritual laws are based on the Law of Love. They do not punish for the mere pleasure of inflicting pain. They do it to teach people a spiritual lesson, which is part of their entire education. A little here, a little there; a little arithmetic, a little bit of language and geography. All the aspects of a spiritual nature. So that one day Soul can become a Co-worker with God.


All who have felt the love of God must return that love to others. It is the Law of Love. This law supports the universes, and it is the only hope of peace in your time. That peace never comes through any decree by a leader in politics or religion, for it already resides in the heart, but one must find it.

Love, after all, is the great law of life. God's love sustains all. Soul exists because God loves It, and so the Sugmad has sent the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master to help wandering Souls find their way home again.


Love is the only way to God. The only way. If you want to go this route, ask the Mahanta in contemplation to be shown the way.

. So what is the reason for living?
. Life is God's blessings to each Soul(you) to learn how to give and receive love. That's what's going on behind the scenes in this great laboratory of life.





The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . Maybury's Two Laws

. (1) Do all you have agreed to do, and (2) do not encroach on other persons or their property. These laws appear in Richard Maybury, author of whatever Happened to Justice? The laws that ethical people of all religions and philosophies can agree to and support are only two in number. These laws, already given in other ECK writings and talks, are so important for your unfoldment that they bear repeating. . . . Learn each word by heart, because knowing and using these two laws as a guiding principle in your daily life will avoid a lot of extra, unnecessary karma. These two laws belong to the social order. However, used in company with the ECK writings and spiritual exercises, you will see yourself grow in confidence, strength, and self - direction.


The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

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. . The Law Of Noninterference
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. Soul's responsibility not to interfere in the affairs of another Soul, but to allow others their freedom. To interfere usually involves a lack of love. Impatience and offering uninvited advice are often symptoms. Even the Living ECK Master does not enter into someone's personal affairs without definite permission. This spiritual law forbids it.

. The lesson: A spiritual being cannot violate the personal space of others, even if desperate to make a living.

. Anyone who uses any means of change or influence on another's mind, including prayer, is violating a law of spiritual consciousness.

. When we see another person with problems and troubles, we can have compassion; but we understand that somewhere down the path these problems have come to him by his own efforts. We let him have freedom to have his troubles. If he asks for help or compassion in one sense or another, we can give it, but we certainly do not interfere with another person's problem and take it on ourselves by saying, I'm going to pray for his healing. We learn the laws of Spirit.

. One is required to pay the price for breaking the spiritual laws even though it is done in ignorance. This is the highest law. Do unto others as you would first have them do unto you really means if I don't want people meddling in my life without permission, then I ought to extend that same privilege to others.

. People of good intentions - who are often short on patience - sometimes forget the law of Noninterference.

. Most people develop health problems as they get on in years and the body begins to run down. That's a natural part of living. But those who interfere with others, without knowing the laws of Divine Spirit, take on more than is necessary.

. We don't have a right to push our beliefs upon anyone else, nor does anyone else have the right to push their beliefs on us. This is part of the freedom of Soul. . . .
. Why should any one religion try to suppress another simply because they feel it's their right to do so? This is a violation of spiritual law. You cannot force others to do your will and call it God's will.

. There is a spiritual law that says you cannot ask ECK Masters to interfere in other people's lives.

. One of the blessings, and perhaps curses, of this world is that Soul can do what It wants to. It has free will.
. Of course, there's a saying that my freedom ends where yours begins. And your freedom ends where mine begins. If people understand love correctly, they will understand that.
. So many people who pass themselves off as disciples of love today do not understand that simple relationship - that my freedom ends where yours begins. And vice versa. That's how it works.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The Law of Plenty

. We live according to the Law of Plenty when we go about life with love and thanksgiving. The viewpoint that there's enough for everybody; more than enough if people know how to find the blessings of God.

. This person had a good perspective on the Law of Plenty. He felt he was rich because he had a loving mate, loving children, and a good home. He was rich in a way that probably no one else on earth would understand. Sometimes people who consider themselves rich don't have a home but they have friends. They say, "I am happy here, and I am growing spiritually." I think these are the people who are living according to the Law of Plenty.
. They have found the richness of the Holy Spirit within them. And because they have, they are the ones who go out into the world and give much more than wealth to the people they meet every day.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

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Do you know the evil one?
How is your life,is in peace?
Do you pray for protection?
Do you work for money?
Your enemies,do you have enemy? do you know any?
What religion do you believe?
Have you be called mad? Since your enlightment on all
I stop here....
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