ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//DE"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Eckankar</TITLE> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <style type="text/css"> td{border: 2px groove #f2e9c3; } p {font-size:12px; font-family:verdana; } </style> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFE"> <center> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="30" width="750" background="back7.jpg" style="border: 2px groove #f2e9c3;"> <tr> <td><img src=redp.jpg border=0> <a href=http://www.eckankar.org> ECKANKAR - ORGANIZATION</a> <p> Master Paul Twitchell was a former disciple of Sufi-Master <a href=http://vclass.mtsac.edu:940/dlane/Doug-dave7.htm target=_blank>Sudar Singh</a>, but he left him after several years. He wrote several books like "Stranger by the river" and said to have found a tibetan master Rebazar Tarzs from an old tradition from VENUS with more than 300 masters(so he was <a href=http://www.geocities.com/eckcult/rsch3.html target=_blank> official</a> not a disciple of Kirpal Singh). </p> <p> He wrote about the periodic cycles of 6000 years of human cultures and of the coming destruction of our culture by "fire". The following destruction after further 6000 years would nearly erase mankind completely. Then our planet will be populated by an extraterrestial race for 10 million years. </p> <p> His Mahanta - Successor Darwin Ross married an attractive disciple in London, but he expected spiritual love, and she expected personal love. So the marriage suddenly ended after 14 days. He died some time after that. </p> <p> In 1981 his Mahanta-Successor became Harold Klemp. He does not expect from the disciples to see him as a guru but only as a leader. </p> <p> The techniques of soul-travel is for progressed disciples, who first can do that at all - with the exception if the Guru uses his power. Eckankar knows <a href=http://www.eckankar.org/Images/godworlds.pdf target=_blank> 10 main planes </a>(PDF) up to the SUGMAD(Ocean of love and mercy) and talks about shabda as BANI in the letters. These worlds are similar to the worlds of Sant Mat or Radhasoami und lead to the feet of the highest lord(SAT). Agian the existence of Maya and its connection to the 5 lower planes is not mentioned. <br> The aim of all this is a consciousness of 360 degrees (as it has been described by Gopi Krishna in his book : Kundalini). <br> But that is by far not yet the enlightenment ! </p> <p> Beginners receive teaching-letters that talk about exercises and the ten worlds of the ECK, but the exercises like "Hu Hu" and the sleeptechniqe cannot lead to spiritual progress without the help of the Mahanta or his tradition. But why should the master develop his disciples in sleep if other masters are not allowed to do that. </p> <p> <center> <table width=500 style="border: 2px groove #f2e9c3;"> <tr><td>* </td><td>Eckankar </td><td> Hinduism</td></tr> <tr><td>7 </td><td>Anamai Lok , Agama Lok</td> <td>Tapo Loka</td></tr> <tr><td> 6</td><td> Hukikat Lok , Alaya Lok, Alakh Lok Atma Lok </td><td>Jana Loka</td></tr> <tr><td> 5</td><td>Etheric </td><td>Mahar Loka</td></tr> <tr><td> 4</td><td>Mental </td><td>Swar Loka</td></tr> <tr><td> 3</td><td>Causal </td><td> (prana)</td></tr> <tr><td> 2</td><td> Astral</td><td>Bhuvar Loka</td></tr> <tr><td> 1</td><td>Physical </td><td>Bhu Loka </td></tr> </table></center> <br> Saint Kabir said "Kabir DHARA agam ki, satguru di lakhay. Tahi ulat sumrin kar, SWAMI sang milay." He said that the stream(dha-ra) of Agama-Loka has to be transformed before it can unite with the Swami. </p> <p> <li>A Wiki about <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckankar target=_blank> Eckankar</a></li> <li>A Link of <a href=http://www.eckist.info/ind.htm target=_blank> former Eckists</a></li> <li> A <a href=http://www.angelfire.com/hi2/eckankarsurvivors/ target=_blank> critical link</a> </li> <li> The<a href=http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Cults/eckankar.htm target=_blank> Eckankar-Cult</a></li> <li> Neural Surfer : <a href=http://elearn.mtsac.edu/dlane/ekdebates.htm target=_blank> Eckankar</a> </li> </p> <hr size=1> <p> ECKANKAR, ECK, MAHANTA, SOUL TRAVEL, and VAIRAGI, among others, are trademarks of ECKANKAR, P.O. Box 27300, Minneapolis, MN 55427 U.S.A. </p> <hr size=1> <p> <center> <a href="page3b.htm#an3l"><img src=back1.jpg border=0></a></center> </p> </td></tr></table> </BODY> </HTML>