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Life Becomes Miraculous • There Are Many Techniques, and Always the Inner Master, to Act as Your Light through the Darkness •
To Become a Member of Eckankar • Love for and Responsibility to All Life
How to Take the Next Step on
Your Spiritual Journey ................... 119
Through Membership in Eckankar You’ll
Discover • How to Find Out More • How to Purchase Items • For Further Reading and Study • There May Be an Eckankar Study Group near You
Bibliography .......................................... 131
Index ...................................................... 133
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The spiritual leader of Eckankar is
Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. His inspiring and practical approach to spirituality helps thousands of people find greater freedom, wisdom, and love. His teachings uplift and help them recognize their own experiences with the Light and Sound of God.
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What Is Eckankar?
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. . . .
. . . If you are ready, the Spiritual Exercises of ECK will help you to find your own custom-made approach to the Kingdom of God.
Harold Klemp
The Golden Heart
This earth is a big old schoolhouse. In fact, so is this entire material level of existence called the physical plane. However, we’re here to learn more than just 1
reading, writing, and arithmetic. We’re here to find our way back to God.
Our teachers have been many: Moses,
Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Confucius,
Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster, Socrates,
Copernicus, Martin Luther, Shakespeare, Emerson, Einstein, the list goes on. The courses we’ve taken range from Who Am I? 101 to Meaning of Life 404. Texts include the Old and New Testaments,
the Apocrypha, the Torah, the Kabbalah, the Koran, the Tao-te Ching, the Book of Changes (I Ching) , the teachings of the Buddha, the Bhagavad Gita, the Book of Mormon, the daily news, and even nursery rhymes.
The purpose of ECKANKAR — Ancient Wisdom for Today , as was the purpose of the old schoolhouse primer, is to teach the basics. To give you the tools to explore your dreams. To help you have more love and understand past and present relationships. And to gain the spiritual insights that improve the quality of your life every day. It’s a spiritual adventure of a lifetime.
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Experience God for Yourself
A cornerstone of Eckankar is the value of personal spiritual experience. Reading a book or listening to a friend will give you only a small understanding of the spiritual worlds and your role in them.
To master your life, you must apply
self-discipline and have a true desire to experience God for yourself. Your experience with the spiritual Light and Sound of God will enrich your life and help you put daily problems into loving perspective.
Eckankar Has Ancient Roots
There’s a common golden thread run-
ning through all religious and spiritual teachings. It’s called the ECK. It is also known as the Holy Spirit, the Word of
God, and the Audible Life Stream.
Though the teachings of Eckankar
have ancient roots, they are timeless.
They’re a living teaching. They speak to us through books and through experience 3
in both the dream and waking states.
Humans have been inspired by the Holy
Spirit to reach spiritual understanding since the beginning of civilization.
A basic text is the Shariyat-Ki-
Sugmad, which means Way of the Eternal.
It is the holy scriptures of Eckankar. Several chapters of ECKANKAR — Ancient Wisdom for Today open with a quote from The Shariyat.
There Is Always
a Living ECK Master
The key teacher and mentor in
Eckankar is the Living ECK Master.
Eckankar is never without a living
Master. This ensures the religion remains pure and appropriate for the consciousness of the day. It avoids the theological disputes
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