Karma and
Reincarnation
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Solving the Mystery
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Reincarnation is a principle of divine
love in action. . . . We become more
godlike beings.
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Karma and Reincarnation:
An ECK Soul Adventure
Soul adventures are
spiritual experiences that
touch us at the very
core of our being.
You are Soul—an eternal, unique
spark of God. As Soul, you have the
God knowledge within you.
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Stories • Inspiration • Spiritual Exercises
Explore how gaining an understanding of
karma and reincarnation can help you
◊ handle challenges in a better way,
◊ develop the quality of divine love, and
◊ become a more godlike being!
The word Eckankar means Coworker with
God. It is the Path of Spiritual Freedom. ECK
means Life Force, God Current, or Holy Spirit.
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Meet Sri Harold Klemp
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A spiritual teacher who can help you on
your path of spiritual self-discovery.
Sri Harold Klemp is the spiritual leader
of Eckankar—the Mahanta, the Living
ECK Master. His role is to awaken the God
knowledge and love for the divine things
already in your heart.
As the Inner and Outer Master, he gives
spiritual help via talks and writings, in the
dream state, and in the spiritual worlds.
There’s a shortcut
to the tiresome cycle
of karma and reincarnation. The Mahanta,
the Living ECK Master
can show those with
the eyes to see and
the ears to hear
a better
way to
freedom.
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Another Day
in the Life of Soul
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Why remember past lives?
To begin with, we need to understand that
the challenges we face today involve all
sorts of past–life experiences.
Once we gain awareness of these links to
other lives, it’s possible to handle
challenges in a better way this time
around. We can end a chain of karma that
has hung on for centuries.
Odd as it may seem, you had a special
reason for coming into this lifetime. It was
to become a more godlike being, but most
people do not realize this fact. They
assume that birth is a fancy of destiny.
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The Polishing of Soul
All the lives you have ever lived were for
the polishing of Soul. Like it or not, you are
now at a higher and more spiritual level
than in any prior incarnation.
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So look at yourself. Do you like what you
see? Keep in mind, whatever it is, for better
or worse, it’s of your own making.
You are the sum of all your thoughts,
feelings, and actions from this life and
every lifetime in the past.
We have a heritage much richer than a
single lifetime, which explains why many
children are born with a particular gift or
knack for doing something. Some kids even
come in knowing a certain language which
their siblings do not.
A very young child may
still remember a past life
and often talk about it.
A good question that a
curious parent can ask a child of two, three,
or four is,
What did you do when you were big?
Don’t be surprised if the child answers you
in a very nonchalant way
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A Child’s Past-Life Recall
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A mother wrote to me with one example of
such past-life knowing. She babysits a
number of toddlers during the day. Her
own daughter is fifteen.
One day the woman found a
little girl sitting on the couch
with the fifteen-year-old.
Usually this child was
chattering all the time. But
today she was very quiet. She was thinking.
Then suddenly, without any prompting, she
said to the fifteen-year-old, “When I was big,
I was in the car with my daddy. We were late
picking up my sister. My daddy drove right
through a stop sign, and he crashed the car.
I went through the windshield and lay on
the ground for a long time before anyone
came to help me. I died.
“When I was big, though, my name was
manda. And I was big like your mommy.”
The fifteen-year-old sometimes had her
questions about the reality of reincarnation.
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But now she looked at her
mother and said, “Mom, did
you hear what she said?”
The mother said, “Yes, I
heard.”
In her letter the mother said this
experience pointed out for her, and for her
daughter, that reincarnation is simply
another day in the life of Soul.
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Divine Love in Action.
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Reincarnation is a principle of divine love in
action. It allows people, you and me, to
have a chance to develop the quality of
divine love.
We do this through the hardships and uncertainties, as well as the joys and the fulfillment, of living. We develop the quality of
divine love. We become more godlike beings.
Life after life you come back trying to solve
the mystery, wondering how to love God,
then how to love yourself.
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The answer to that mystery is spiritual
freedom. And the way to spiritual freedom
is simply to sing HU with love. That is where
you begin.
That’s the doorway to a new life, a life of
love. }
The rule of karma determines factors
like male or female body, eye-hand
coordination, long- or short-term
memory retention, and desires. In
addition, our karmic package includes
race, ancestry, family,
friends, economic
and social
standing,
and much,
much more.
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Try a Spiritual Exercise
Healing a
Past-Life Fear
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At a certain stage in our spiritual unfoldment, we may be shown, through dreams
or Soul Travel, a past-life experience that
explains a present love, hate, or fear. There
is a particular reason, for instance, why
some people have a fear of heights.
Fear has many faces. Each face has an
underlying reason. Usually—though not
always—it is based on something that
happened in a past life.
Love dispels fear.
Here’s a way to open
yourself to its healing
powers:
In contemplation, visualize the golden
Light of God coming into your heart center,
coming in so quietly and gently that you.
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may not realize It’s there. Imagine your
heart center reacting like the pupil of an
eye, opening gently to allow more Light to
come in.
There is a way you can
control the opening of
the heart center and the
flow of Light within. Ask
the Inner Master how to
maintain the inner connection with the God Current to find a
balance that is right for you.
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How to Sing HU
Your eyes can be open or closed.
◊ Take a few deep breaths to relax.
◊ Then begin to sing HU (pronounced like
the word hue) in a long, drawn-out
sound: HU-U-U-U.
◊ Take another breath, and sing HU again.
You can continue for up to twenty
minutes.
◊ Sing HU with a feeling of love, and It will
gradually open your heart to God.
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Did You Know?
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A higher law than the Law of
Karma is the Law of Love.
“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth” is the strict
Law of Karma. This law is to teach people
self-responsibility. It’s unforgiving. Under
it, people hope others get punished.
A higher law is the Law of Love. With this
law comes the understanding that indeed
what will be will be.
But the difference here is
that we do not wish or
expect others to get
punished for their
misdeeds. Instead, we
give them love in return.
How does this work out in daily life?
If someone cheats us out of our property,
we will, of course, try to get it back by
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whatever legal means possible.
But we will do so without
feelings of hatred or
anger. Such feelings tie
us to the strict Law of
Karma.}
What ways have
you found
to let go
of anger?
Our mistakes in this life and
past lifetimes are the polishings
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of a precious gem in the rough.
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A Knight’s Tale of Karma
By Richard Welsh.
Did you know your past lives can be a cause
for karmic challenges you have in this life?
Here is how one man received an answer to
his relationship problems.
One autumn, I attended an Eckankar
seminar. One of the features of that
seminar was a Past Lives, Dreams, and Soul
Travel fair.
In the past-life portion of the fair, the
facilitator shared different spiritual
exercises we could use to help us
remember past-life experiences. One of the
techniques was adapted from an exercise
given by Sri Harold Klemp called the Radio
Announcer technique.
The facilitator had several magazine
pictures in the center of the table, depicting
people from various cultures and historical
time periods. We were asked to pick a picture that most interested us.
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The pictures went fast, and I was left with
an image that didn’t have any meaning to
me. I don’t feel any connection to this picture,
I thought to myself.
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I looked at the young woman next to me.
She was holding a picture of a medieval
knight in full armor.
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I recalled how I loved
movies about chivalry and
knighthood. Many times I
played with my brothers
and friends wielding makeshift swords. My
fascination with medieval weaponry and
armor has continued to this day.
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The young woman next to me sensed my
interest in her image. She held it out to me
and said, “Do you want this one?” “Sure,” I
said, and we exchanged pictures.
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Then the spiritual exercise began. We were
to close our eyes and imagine we were
listening to an inner radio broadcast about
our pictures. We’d hear the announcer’s
voice as he gave a summary of how the
image related to a past life.
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I had my doubts the exercise would work
for me. But it was easy to guess what an
announcer might say about the life of this
knight. Skilled with the weaponry of the
day, a knight was respected by many and
held a special place in medieval society
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I imagined the announcer
talking about the brotherly
camaraderie that existed among
fellow knights who were bound
together by the laws of chivalry.
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Then, just as a real radio broadcaster
would do, we stopped for a break before
returning for the second half of the story
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Was This the Answer?
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After a few moments, I tuned back in.
Suddenly, my imagined broadcast shifted
from what it was before. The inner
announcer became more somber.
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In living a warrior’s life, you were trained and
paid to kill other people. To survive, you had
to adopt an emotional distance from those
who fell under your sword. This attitude.
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extended to other areas of your life.
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You lived many times as a warrior. These lives
are the root cause of your difficulties with
having close personal relationships in your
present life.
I was surprised. This was
not something I would
have imagined as the
other half of my story.
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Yet for most of my adult life, I’d had
difficulties forming relationships, and I had
wondered why. More than once I’d asked
the Mahanta for insights into this problem.
Was this the answer?
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Unraveling the Mystery
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The exercise ended, and we were asked if
we would like to share our experiences. I
started to relate the first part of my inner
broadcast. Then I began the second half.
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Suddenly I became so filled with emotion I
could barely speak. As I struggled to find
the words, I realized the second half of my
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inner broadcast was true. My many
lifetimes as a warrior had affected my
relationships with other people in this life.
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Here was the answer I had waited for. The
karmic root cause of my difficulties with
relationships came from the past. But I also
knew that now I could let go of those old
lifetimes and learn how to open my heart
to love.
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This was not the first time the spiritual
exercises helped me unravel a mystery in
my life. As I thought about this experience,
I was reminded once again how valuable
the spiritual exercises are in helping us
discover more about ourselves as Soul.
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« Our character is made up of virtues
and shortcomings, and all are a
development from past lives. A reason
lurks in the background of every twist
of personality. Each trauma from a
forgotten life shapes our conduct in a
given way. Without exception. »
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Answers to Your Questions
about Karma and
Reincarnation.
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People reincarnate to resolve
karma created in past lifetimes. But,
observing world events, it seems people are
creating more karma for themselves.
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Will people learn to work together while
resolving their karma? If we take
responsibility for our actions, then when will
our karma be finished so reincarnation is no
longer necessary?
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The whole process of refining Souls
through resolving karma made in past lives
is a slow, careful one. The mills of karma
grind slowly, but exceedingly fine.
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Yes, people are very
busy every day creating
new karma for
themselves. The reason
is they overreact to
every slight. They show a
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lack of respect first for themselves, then for
others.
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They need still to develop
the quality of grace.
Grace and respect are
two signs of a mature spiritual individual,
whatever his religion or beliefs.
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Karma works itself off by levels through the
hard experiences of life—the university of
hard knocks. A Soul that completes a certain level of purification then graduates to
a higher level of choice, experience, and
service.
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« The experiences of life give you the
wisdom, love, and understanding that
you need to someday take a step higher
on the spiritual ladder and ultimately
become a Coworker with God. »
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