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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 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

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

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

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

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

. 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

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

. Soul is like a letter. The envelope that Soul comes in is the human body, and the address reads: "To Earth." The return address: "From Heaven." The whole point about this special mailing is the letter, Soul, and hardly the envelope.
. From heaven we came, and to heaven we do return. There is no doubt we will gather experiences. That goes with the turf. The question is, how much will we gain from them?
. Do we have more understanding? How about more compassion or love?
. No matter, for we get sent back here until we get our lessons right. There is no hurry. It is up to us to decide how quickly we wish to progress. Heaven certainly does not care. We each determine our own timetable. That is the whole of it, in spite of what other religions teach.
. You are the letter; your body, the envelope.




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

"Man, in a sense, is in quest of a holy grail." He is sure of a simple solution out there somewhere that can bring him peace, comfort, and joy on every hand. . . . Yet the answers hides within him.



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

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

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

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

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

. A joke in Reader's Digest illustrates the road to self-knowledge and truth:
. During an interview, a reporter asked a bank president for the secret of his success.
"Two words."
"And what are they?
"Right decisions."
"How are right decisions made?
"One word."
"What is that?"
"Experience."
"How do you get experience?"
"Two words."
"What are they?"
"Wrong decisions."
. In ECK, the course is a straight one, with definite guidelines. These include the Master, the Sound Current (Holy Spirit), and the Spiritual Exercises of ECK. They are key to entering the high worlds of God. Critics may try to discredit our path, but time and experience shall teach them better too.



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

Most of the nonessentials of divine wisdom were invented or were openly promoted when Truth was forced to go underground due to persecution by the Church and state. These two groups did not wish for men to learn lest they observe ways and means of bettering their downtrodden condition and try to overthrow the established orders. The saviours did not have the worldwide means of instantaneous communication which we have today, and could not reach enough people to make their teachings effective enough to have lasting strength except for a few, like Christ and Buddha. So what we got as holy scriptures was little more than a pale reflection of truth. In many cases, it makes me wonder what is actually hidden in the hearts of many who know, but who will not tell the truth to the masses of people. It has been every man for himself, and much truth had been hidden behind symbolism in the writings of the Magi and wise men of the ages. A lot of guesswork by self-styled savants has been born and written for the public. Students of truth have been compelled to seek truth the best way possible, through records left, through researching among those living who have claimed to know and whose words have had to be tested. A lot of unsound guesswork has been made. Today all seekers have inherited the job of sifting out the useless and trying to rediscover what has been hidden or lost. It is a gargantuan task, and there are few authentic teachers and centers among the thousands of utterly useless promulgators of shallow doctrine.
. The experiences of the seekers lead them into realizing that something is beyond the sweetness and light of the leaders they may have been following. Mainly, this comes about for the simple reason that what they have been hearing and reading did not have agreement. Contradictions started them looking deeper into the subject and into their own experiences to find truth.Many learned that they couldn't share their newly hard-won knowledge because of the possible dangerous aspects of spreading truth.
. Once the individual becomes emancipated from the convention of society he can easily become a criminal in the eyes of that society. Few really want change, peculiar enough. Few understand that truth reveals itself only to those who seek it and love it. The whole purpose of spiritual training is, therefore, the absolute union with the Divine Self.
. Buddha said, "The summit of Reality can only be realized within oneself." The principal source of human life comes from within and from the depth of the Soul. The jewels of the ECK wisdom are seldom strewn along the highway for people, but are left to the individual to find and know. The masses are never lifted to the position of understanding, nor have the religionists ever wanted them to be. It would mean lost trade for the pseudo mystics.
. Yet many true seekers have found something. Hazrat Inayat Khan gave me a clue in his writings, "He who depends on his eyes for sight and, his ears for hearing and his mouth for speech, is still dead.


Sri Paul Twitchell
The Flute of God

Soul Travel. It gives you such a glimpse of truth - not just as a piece of knowledge out there - but as a living, breathing part of you, so that you know something as truth.
. Ironically, it also dashes your old expectations and beliefs to the ground. Often you find out that life is more beautiful and fuller than you had ever expected it to be. And God's creation is more wondrous.
. Once you come to this realization, through Soul Travel or any other experience, you have a greater appreciation and respect for life and everything that's in it.


The Secret of Love
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

People who are very set in their state of consciousness - they have their mind made up about a lot of things - are the least likely to hear when God speaks.


How to Survive Spiritually in Our Times
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master

There is no mystery about truth, but the acquisition and transmission of true knowledge demands both great labor and great effort of him who receives.
. Those who want truth must make the initial effort to find the source of knowledge and to approach it, taking advantage of the help and indications which are given to all, but which people as a rule do not want to see or recognize. Knowledge cannot come to you without effort on your part.
. Strangely, most persons feel that truth can be given them without much effort. However, this is a wrong attitude for great knowledge is not easy to gather to one's self. For example, it takes five to ten years to grasp the principles of medicine, and often the same or longer for the study of painting, writing or music.
. Many times an individual's independent effort will attain him nothing. It is usually gained through those who already possess it. One should learn from those who know.


Flute of God
Sri Paul Twitchell

. Golden Kiss of God

. Soul Travel is thus of several dimensions. Some people describe it as a shift in consciousness. Out of the blue, some event happens to shed light on a spiritual matter that had mystified them. A shift in consciousness to a new plane flits in like a soft, golden kiss of God. Then, these lucky Souls know they've had the best of good fortune and have touched the hem of divine love. Rather, it has brushed them.
. Soul Travel, as stated, may also be of a more dramatic sort. In this case, an individual transcends the human body and tastes the love and freedom that are a birthright. He rises into the other worlds. Each experience fits him, because each is a reflection of his spiritual state.
. People ask, "Why is it important in ECKankar to learn Soul Travel?"
. Soul Travel, in a broad sense, is of much value because it is a link to the expansion of consciousness. The rule of destiny holds that people at some time will begin to awaken to who and what they are. A knowledge of past lives may be open to them by way of dreams or déjà vu. A few catch a glimpse of future events.
. Note that Soul Travel means moving into the higher realms of God, to places people haven't yet dreamed of. Soul Travel reveals a majesty and security that abounds in the arms of God alone.
. For this reason, Soul Travel transcends astral or mind travel, and rote prayer, elevating one into profound spiritual areas. Whenever Soul reaches the far orbits of the inner planes through Soul Travel, the human heart opens to God's all-consuming love.
. It is our very purpose to discover that love.



Past Lives, Dreams, and Soul Travel
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

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

. What Is Soul Travel?

. In the simplest terms, Soul Travel is an individual moving closer to the heart of God. This movement takes a variety of forms.
. Soul Travel is, for the most part, a tool for use in the worlds below the Soul Plane, first of the true spiritual worlds. It takes one through the Astral, Causal, Mental, and Etheric Planes. As a whole, these are the planes of time and space. Soul Travel occurs in two general ways. One form is the sensation of fast movement of the Soul body through the planes of time and space. In reality, though, is such movement possible?
. You see, Soul exists on all planes, so what feels like movement, or travel, is simply Soul coming into an agreement with fixed states and conditions that already exist in some world of time and space.
. If you can imagine a scene, then you can be there this instant in the Soul body. That is the Imaginative technique. It may feel as though you are hurtling through space at a breakneck speed, like a rocket, and zooming on a journey to the outer space. In fact, though, Soul (you) is motionless. It is shifting Its attention to some higher state. That shifting of attention results in a feeling of fast motion to the material senses.
. Soul Travel begins with a Spiritual Exercise of ECK in a physical setting.
. A contemplative may hear a rushing sound, like a wailing wind in a tunnel, along with a sensation of incredible speed. But as explained, Soul doesn't move; Soul is. Time and space adjust to Soul's state of consciousness, and it is this adjustment of time and space that renders an illusion of movement or breathtaking speed. A seeming, rapid change of location is one aspect of Soul Travel that may prove to be a daunting obstacle for the timid. These people fear going beyond themselves.
. Soul Travel is, therefore, for the bold and courageous in spirit. But remember, since one doesn't in fact travel anywhere, it's impossible to get lost.
. Keep that principle in mind during a spiritual exercise. It will lend the confidence to open your heart to love and so delight in any enlightenment that finds you.
. Another form of Soul Travel is the expansion of consciousness. This aspect is the true state of personal revelation or enlightenment that we aspire to in ECK. It visits both the timid and the bold, and is a gentler, less robust version of movement in consciousness. Most people experience this sort of gradual shifting of awareness.
. Love and wonder define Soul Travel the best.



Past Lives, Dreams, and Soul Travel
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

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

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

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

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

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

There are a great number of people who love to show what they know. They will invariably talk to you, expressing their opinions and beliefs about God; telling you how much they can help you, even advertising in the press to this effect. Always be skeptical - question everything and everyone. It might be but a dishonest effort on their part to make themselves a living - nothing more. What they know comes a great deal from books with little experience of learning from other teachers, and seldom, if ever, from what God gave them directly. A person who is truly knowledgeable will rarely do a great deal of talking on any subject.
. There is no point in resisting these false masters; simply accept them as they are and leave them alone.


Sri Paul Twitchell
The Flute of God

. Dreams

. Dreams are a window to heaven. They link the two realities of heaven and earth - and allow you, as Soul to move freely between them every single day when going to sleep.





The Living Word, Book 2
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living Eck Master

. The Inner Master

. "In ECKankar, the student is under the protection of a spiritual guide known as the Mahanta. This is the Spiritual Traveller. As the Mahanta, he is the Inner Master, the one who comes on the inner planes to impart knowledge, truth, and wisdom. But he also has an outer side. Here he is known as the Living ECK Master."

The Living Word, Book 2
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living Eck Master

The Supreme Consciousness will appear to anyone, provided the individual furnishes the state of consciousness through which it can appear. Therefore, whatever anyone is receiving or lacking in the expression of his consciousness is his own responsibility. It is the result of his own consciousness. Until you can understand this, you can never have true freedom and liberation from this world.
Until you can understand that nothing can happen to you, nothing can ever come to you or be kept away from you, except in accordance with the state of your consciousness, you do not have the key to life.


Sri Paul Twitchell
The Flute of God