FOUR FUNDAMENTALS OF ECK

Sri Harold Klemp

These are the four basic principles behind the practice of Eckankar:

Spiritual Exercises of ECK

Spiritual exercises known to the followers of Eckankar, the Path of Spiritual Freedom, which promote the movement of the inner consciousness known as Soul Travel.

Contemplation

In Eckankar, a spiritual exercise during which the attention is focused upon some definite spiritual principle, thought, or ideas, or upon the Living ECK Master; differs from meditation in that the definite object or vision gives purpose to the focusing of attention, and is active, rather than passive as in medication.

Inner Master

Light and Sound blended; the highest form of all love; the inner form of the Living ECK Master.

Self-Discipline

The control of the subjective self; control of the emotional feeling and the imaginative forces.

(Culled from A Cosmic Sea of Words: The ECKANKAR Lexicon, p.75)