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BOOK TWO Blog (93) Author Edward J Fish In my younger years I kept my writing in journals, but for only a short time before thrown away. In 1983, I found ECKANKAR and I was told by the Mahanta (Inner Master) to keep my journals and in doing so I found a GREAT TRUTH! This is my story. BOOK ONE BLOG (44) SPIRIT (SELF-SURRENDER) BOOK ONE BLOG (43) TAROT READING (1) #12 CARD THE HANGED MAN THE SHARIYAT-KI-SUGMAD BOOK ONE PAUL TWITCHELL PAGE 24, PARAGRAPH 4 Man should know that in Soul there is being, knowing and seeing. In the mind there is nothing more than thought, volition and analysis, while in the body there is only action. Merriam-Webster Definition of volition. 1 : the power of choosing or determining : will. 2 : an act of making a choice or decision also : a choice or decision made. SELF-AWARENESS: (SOUND) (Higher God World's) True Spiritual planes Illumination of Consciousness (8TH Plane) Soul Travel INSIGHT: (LIGHT) (Lower God World's) Psychic Planes Soul Travel Astral Travel EXPERIENCE: (INTELLIGENCE) The Lower Worlds of Darkness, Matter and Mind (Human Body). TOOLS: Soul Travel Astral Travel (Out of Body Projection) Dreams ILLUMINATION On this journey I found Enlightenment (Parts); what I learned in life by Awareness, Insight and Experience, where eventually having a accumulation of all the parts come together; Illumination (Whole) and I knew the Love of the SUGMAD (God) and "I AM" (Soul) an illuminated being with a HUman body. A Note of Interest Only the Consciousness can be illuminated. THE SHARIYAT-KI-SUGMAD BOOK ONE PAUL TWITCHELL PAGE 130, PARAGRAPH 4 Consciousness is the ECK, but not God ITSELF. The moment the chela has a consciousness of himself as the ECK, he has established himself in the Word, the Voice of God. This is the realization of Soul that occurs on the Fifth plane. This leads into God-Realization, the ultimate goal of all chelas who follow the path of ECK. SHARIYAT-KI- SUGMAD
(Way of the Eternal) THE SHARIYAT-KI-SUGMAD Volume One The essence of God knowledge is laid down in these writings. Those who follow ECK are involved in the SHARIYAT-KI-SUGMAD for it is their bible, the everlasting gospel. All worldly doctrines on religions, philosophies, and sacred writings are the offsprings of the SHARIYAT-KI-SUGMAD. THE SHARIYAT-KI-SUGMAD BOOK ONE PAUL TWITCHELL PAGE 45, PARAGRAPH 4 Truth can be understood only by one who is in a state of vigilance, therefore none who are in a slack condition of mind will find it available. Truth is not in the heights but at the bottom of all things. It must be struggled for and sought after and come upon through earnest effort, through the stimulation brought about by suffering or striving, where by the consciousness is prepared to recognize it. Truth always appears to be veiled, guarded and hidden from the eyes of the profane. Categories
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Category: ECK Parables, What Is ECKANKAR By Harold Klemp Finding Your Own Spiritual Path to God Someone sent me a poem. The title was “The Calf Path,” and one of the lines in it was “the calf-paths of the mind.” It tells an interesting story. Three hundred years ago there was a little calf on its way home. It meandered as it made its way along a path that led through the forest, and as the calf wandered and made its trail, it disappeared into history. The next day, along came a dog. He was just out for a walk when he smelled these tracks, and he decided to follow the path of the calf. A few days later there came a bellwether, the sheep that leads the flock, and by some coincidence this sheep followed the trail made by the calf and the dog. After a couple of years, men started to track along this same path, and though they bitterly cursed its crookedness, still they followed it. Time went on, many years passed, and this animal trail became a country road. A few more decades saw it evolve into a city thoroughfare, and finally, after more years, it became the main street of a metropolis. But it was still so crooked that you had to travel three miles to advance one mile. The people drove down this crooked street by the thousands, by the hundreds of thousands, day after day, year after year. Because they had to travel three times farther than the actual distance, they cursed it, and yet they continued to follow this crooked path of the calf from centuries past. Eckankar is not the only path to God, but it is the most direct. It is the direct path home. There are other paths, but they are trodden and driven through the centuries by those who can’t get off them, who will curse the crookedness, who will curse the darkness but not turn on a light. In ECK, we understand that the mind runs in a rut. We pick up habits as children, which carry into the teen years and become hardened and solidified as we grow older. Anger and other attitudes of the mind stem from these habits. The only thing that is greater than mind is Soul. It is above the power of the mind, and It is the only thing able to nudge the mind out of its rut…. I invite you, then, to look at the path of ECK with an open mind. Whether it’s for you or not, recognize that something greater than walking any particular path is to be able to exercise the freedom to choose for yourself the path to God that is right for you, and furthermore, to allow the same freedom for others. -- Excerpt from How to Find God, Mahanta Transcripts, Book 2. |