Subject: Important TRUTH About DEPARTED Masters From: remcelwain@aol.com (REMCELWAIN) Date: 1997/03/23 Message-Id: <19970323085601.DAA13346@ladder01.news.aol.com> Newsgroups: alt.religion.eckankar Important TRUTH About DEPARTED Masters ALL of us were ORIGINALLY created and born into one of the upper Spiritual Planes of Heaven. In general, we were SELFISH, LAZY, IMMATURE, and IN-EXPERIENCED there. So God sent us down here for a long series of incarnations and RE-INCARNATIONS between the Physical Plane (Pinda) and the Psychic Planes (Astral Plane, Causal Plane, Mental Plane, and Etheric Plane), and the numerous SUB-planes within each of these major planes, for the purposes of gaining EXPERIENCE, building CHARACTER, and learning the importance of SERVICE to OTHERS, to become a SERVANT of Life and a CO-WORKER with God. To help us accomplish this training, God created and assigned to us a SCHOOLMASTER, who rules over ALL of the Psychic Planes and the Physical Plane, BELOW the Soul Plane and higher Spiritual Planes. Christians know him as the Devil, Satan, Lucifer, etc.. He is also known as Kal Niranjan, the Universal Mind Power, or simply the Negative Power. It is his God-given DUTY to use clever tricks to keep us IMPRISONED here in the lower worlds for extended training. God also provided us with an easy way of ESCAPE from the MISERABLE and seeming ENDLESS cycles of births, deaths, and rebirths. All a person has to do to obtain this Salvation is to find, and seriously accept Initiation from, a PHYSICALLY- LIVING Divine Master, and then daily do some of the various suggested spiritual contemplation exercises. (A TRUE Divine Master is one who tunes his Initiates into the Sound Current, the Audible Life Stream, referred to as "The Word" in John 1:1-5.) When the Initiate physically dies, s/he will go DIRECTLY to at least the Soul Plane and will NEVER AGAIN have to REincarnate into ANY Physical or Psychic Plane of existence. One such PHYSICALLY-LIVING Divine Master is an American, Sri Harold Klemp, the Living ECK Master, or Mahanta, for the Eckankar organization, now headquartered in Minneapolis (P.O. Box 27300, zip 55427; 1-800-568-3463; www.eckankar.org). Another Divine Master alive today is Maharaj Gurinder Singh Ji of the Sant Mat organization, now living in Punjab, India. There are others. However, Eckankar has some important ADVANTAGES over these others, including fewer restrictions on diet and life style, less daily time required for spiritual comtemplation exercises, and the ability of Initiates to work off negative karma during the DREAM STATE where it won't disrupt the Initiate's outer physical life. It should be emphasized that one can NOT obtain this Salvation from a DEPARTED Divine Master, such as Jesus Christ, who is NOT now physically alive, NOR will be again. THIS IS SIMPLY THE WAY GOD SET THINGS UP IN THE UNIVERSES. Therefore, ALL Christians, as well as ALL Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., WILL CONTINUE to REincarnate. Quoted from "The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book One" (the Eckankar Bible), pages 95-96 (1987 Edition): "A vital difference exists between the Mahanta and a departed Master [such as Jesus Christ]. The chela cannot follow a Master who has left this plane and gone into the other worlds. The departed one cannot initiate anyone on the spiritual path. He has nothing now to do with the earth world.... "No child can get nourishment from a deceased mother, nor a sick man from a departed doctor. The Masters of the past ages have left this field of action and so their work here is finished.... The SUGMAD [God] cannot instruct, or give man the needed help on the upward path, without the Mahanta in human form to act as his instrument and spokesman.... "Those who cling to a Master [such as Jesus Christ] who has been translated from this earth are in error. He is not dead, but he has left the field of action in this region of matter. He is no longer in touch with humanity; his work is elsewhere. The discipleship of the chela must change to the successor. "Men must recognize that feelings provide no proof in religious matters...." Books containing several kinds of evidence supporting REincarnation, and the related LAW of RETRIBUTION or KARMA (Galatians 6:7, Revelation 13:10, etc.), can be found in most bookstores and libraries. One of the best of these books is "Here and Hereafter" by Ruth Montgomery. See also the book "Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives", by hypnotherapist Dr. Micheal Newton, Ph.D., 4th edition, 1995; but note that this book's references to the "spiritual realms" are actually LIMITED to the PSYCHIC Planes. The CLASSIC original Eckankar books are: "ECKANKAR: The Key to Secret Worlds", "The Tiger's Fang", and "The Spiritual Notebook", all three written by Paul Twitchell. For more information, answers to your questions, etc., please consult my CITED SOURCES. UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS. Robert E. McElwaine 2nd Initiate in Eckankar