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Every Sunday of each month, people from all walks of life gather to celebrate a life lived in harmony with Divine Spirit. Dynamic speakers and original creative arts demonstrate the gifts to be found through daily practice of the spiritual principles taught in Eckankar.
You are invited to come and experience spiritual growth and fellowship, as you explore what could be your next spiritual step.
Programme of Activities on Sundays
HU Song 8.00 am – 8.20 am
Satsang Classes ( 2nd. And 3rd. Sunday) 8.00 am - 9.30 am
Book Discussion Classes 8.30 am - 9.30 am
Book Discussion Classes for Visitors (Seekers) 8.30 am - 9.30 am
Workshops & Members Meetings 8.30 am - 9.30 am
ECK Consecration & ECK Rite of Passage Ceremonies 8.30 am - 9.30 am
ECK Worship Service begins at 10.00am prompt and ends at 11.30am at all Local ECK Centres except at Tema where it begins at 9.15am and ends at 10.45 am.
ECK Worship Service Reading: July - September 2010
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| Date: | August 01, 2010 | | Topic: | LEARNING TO ACCEPT DIVINE LOVE | | Book: | Journey of Soul Mahanta Transcripts, Book 1 | | Author: | Harold Klemp | | Reading: | “When someone just steps unto the path, the Master gives love in the way that individual needs, at that time. Then after a few years, that person is now an older child in a sense, no longer needing the same cuddling as the youngster. But not realizing this, he may say “something’s wrong. This Master isn’t as good as the last one.” What’s the Master supposed to do- put you back in the crib? Could the mother hen squeeze the chick back into the shell? It’s not possible. There is absolutely no way we can go backward, and yet often when we say, “I’m not having the experiences I did before”, we’re actually asking to be squeezed back into the shell.
I won’t say that the path of ECK is going to be a path of roses because it won’t; but there’ll be times when you’ll get to rest. Picture it as climbing a mountain to God; although there’ll be times you’ll have to climb up the side of the mountain, you may come to a cliff and want to rest for a while, and there might even be some roses there for you to enjoy. But once you have rested, you have a choice; you can go up or you can go down. Why did you climb the mountain? It’s the same call of soul thus within each of us.”
JOURNEY OF SOUL; Pg 113- 114 and 116
By Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta the Living ECK Master, Spiritual Leader of ECKANKAR
| | | | | Date: | August 08, 2010 | | Topic: | ECK INITIATIONS - DOORWAY TO A NEW WORLD | | Book: | How to Survive Spiritually in Our Times Mahanta Transcripts, Book 16 | | Author: | Harold Klemp | | Reading: | “Initiation is both an outer and inner ritual that corresponds to the outer and inner teachings that corresponds to the Outer and the Inner Master that corresponds to the voice of God as It speaks outwardly and inwardly. It’s all linked together. Many people don’t know of the outer and inner voice of God.
A new initiation shows the individual that a doorway has opened into a new world. When you go through the door, you’re the new guy on the team. You start at the bottom of the pecking order and you have to work your way up.
The way you do this is by getting experience in all aspects of life. At one initiation level, you get experience in the emotional level. At another initiation level, it’ll be remembering the past, remembering and making connections between cause and effect. Other times, the new experiences will be in the area of thought. Doorways will open and you’ll find new areas to explore. Then, it’s up to you to do it.
To move forward, you’ll have to give up things you have become used to in the past. It’s necessary to give up certain of your dear ideas and pet notions.”
HOW TO SURVIVE SPIRITUALLY IN OUR TIMES, Pg 16-17
By Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta the Living ECK Master, Spiritual Leader of ECKANKAR
| | | | | Date: | August 22, 2010 | | Topic: | BECOMING A FULLER SPIRITUAL BEING | | Book: | The Eternal Dreamer Mahanta Transcripts, Book 7 | | Author: | Harold Klemp | | Reading: | “Soul strives for excellence more than perfection. Perfection assumes a state beyond which nothing better can exist. But excellence means being the very best you can at any particular time.
Once you learn to sing HU, the holy word of God, you begin to open yourself to the spiritual help needed to accomplish your goals. With each goal you accomplish, you grow stronger in spirit; you become a fuller spiritual being.
As this happens you more and more become the Sound and Light of ECK. Your light becomes much greater than before. People come up to you just to be near you. They don’t know why, of course, but it’s because they can feel the Light and Sound that is coming through you.”
THE ETERNAL DREAMER, Page 105 and 107
By Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta the Living ECK Master, Spiritual Leader of ECKANKAR
| | | | | Date: | August 29, 2010 | | Topic: | OUTER REFLECTIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS | | Book: | Unlocking the Puzzle Box Mahanta Transcripts, Book 6 | | Author: | Harold Klemp | | Reading: | “I walk along the streets trying to get a feel for the consciousness of the people in an area. Changes in food preferences, dress styles and other outer patterns may seem of no consequence to others, but to me, they reflect a change in consciousness.
The outer circumstances also make a very definite impression on the inner life. In New Zealand for instance, the government recently imposed a 10% goods- and -services tax on food, clothing, even medicine. Many people thought times were so hard before the tax that they could barely make it, and now they have to come up with 10% more. So they are finding that they have to do things differently than before- shop more carefully, take less time off for recreation, and so on. They have to scrimp in every area.
The karmic pattern of their country is speeding up, as it is in other parts of the world. People begin to feel the effects of the ECK, the Holy Spirit, the wind of change. At the same time, the karma of the individuals in that area is also speeding up. There’s a direct connection between national and individual karma. When it speeds up in the macrocosm, it will also speed up in the microcosm and vice versa.
Most of us resist change because we don’t really like it. Given a choice, we’ll choose to keep our lives comfortable. But unfortunately, in the human state of consciousness, one doesn’t learn as well when everything is going his way. Soul becomes selfish and self serving with no interest in serving others. It loses sight of the mission for which it came here- to become a co-worker with God. Not to become one with God or any of those passive notions, but to become a coworker with God.”
UNLOCKING THE PUZZLE BOX Pg 90-91
By Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta the Living ECK Master, Spiritual Leader of ECKANKAR
| | | | | Date: | September 05, 2010 | | Topic: | TURNING POINTS IN LIFE | | Book: | Our Spiritual Wake-Up Calls Mahanta Transcripts, Book 15 | | Author: | Harold Klemp | | Reading: | “Throughout most people’s lives, there are turning points, or wake-up calls. These are very important in the spiritual life, because something significant happens.
Usually we’re not so sure that this significant happening is for our good. Infact, we usually think something went wrong. We hang on our old ways and our old thoughts, our old habits, hanging on because we know the past. It’s comfortable. It may not be the best, but at least it’s like an old friend.
The future is unknown, a deep, black ocean that terrifies us.
These spiritual wake-up calls come sometimes in dreams, sometimes in symbols or daily events, occasionally from an ECK Master.
Most of us are people who like routine; we like things to stay exactly as they are. But if we keep going through our lives, doing things exactly as we’ve always done them, we’re never going to move forward on the path to God. It can’t happen. We’re going to be exactly where we were, forever and ever.
For those of you who understand the spiritual works, you know that this is impossible. You either go forward or go backward, one or the other.”
OUR SPIRITUAL WAKE-UP CALLS, page 113-114
By Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta the Living ECK Master, Spiritual Leader of ECKANKAR
| | | | | Date: | September 12, 2010 | | Topic: | SERVICE WITH LOVE | | Book: | Stories to Help You See God in Your Life, ECK Parables, Book 4 | | Author: | Harold Klemp | | Reading: | “Our purpose in ECKANKAR is to become a co- worker with God. If we are helping others in their spiritual unfoldment- in ECK or outside Eckankar- we are co- workers with God.
As we give of ourselves, of our patience and love, to someone else who needs it more, something changes inside us. Something flows in, a flow of good feeling. There is a spiritual upliftment that occurs both in us and in the person receiving the love.
Unless the members of a spiritual teaching carry something spiritual and uplifting into the world, they become an introverted group. We have to give of ourselves- not in an emotional way, but as true service to others in the way they need at the moment. We give others not what they think they need, but what they really need, as Divine Spirit directs us.”
THE BOOK OF ECK PARABLES 4; Pg 103- 104
By Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta the Living ECK Master, Spiritual Leader of ECKANKAR
| | | | | Date: | September 19, 2010 | | Topic: | BUILDING SPIRITUAL STRENGTH | | Book: | The Drumbeat of Time Mahanta Transcripts, Book 10 | | Author: | Harold Klemp | | Reading: | “One day you begin to recognize that the problems in your life are of your own making. As you gain in spiritual unfoldment, you are able to create fewer problems for yourself. This is not to say that you stop having problems. Actually, as you become stronger spiritually, you graduate to a higher kind of problem. Many people probably think it must be nice to be a saint and have such happiness. But if you look at the history of the saints, you find that most of them had a life of hardship. So people long for the happiness and overlook the hardships, not putting the two components together. They don’t realize that those who became saints unfolded to a higher level where, along with their greater wisdom and spiritual strength, they also had greater problems. There is a compensating balance in life.”
THE DRUMBEAT OF TIME, PAGE 79
By Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta the Living ECK Master, Spiritual Leader
of ECKANKAR
| | | | | Date: | September 26, 2010 | | Topic: | GOD'S LOVE IN ACTION | | Book: | Our Spiritual Wake-Up Calls Mahanta Transcripts, Book 15 | | Author: | Harold Klemp | | Reading: | “God’s love is around us all the time, so much so that most people are unaware of it. We take God’s love for granted because it’s as commonplace as the grass, the trees, the birds. It’s so commonplace that we overlook it even forget about it.
God’s love flows equally to all people. But all people do not recognize God’s love equally, because everyone’s state of consciousness is different. We’re all different. Some people are very aware and grateful for the blessings of God. Others just plod along through life saying, ‘Well, it’s just life. What does God have to do with it?’ So when we look at God’s love in action, we’re not talking about God’s love in action as if it suddenly exists whereas before it never did. We’re talking about our state of consciousness, recognizing this love of God that is with us all the time. Awareness - this is a hard thing.”
OUR SPIRITUAL WAKE-UP CALLS Pg 153
by Sri Harold Klemp, the Mahanta the Living ECK Master, Spiritual Leader of ECKANKAR
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