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room at this exact moment.
Tears began to stream down my face as everyone in the room now turned to see me. I quickly sat down in the closest seat I could find.
Instinctively I knew I had come home; such was the contentment I was experiencing. Standing in a crowded Inner Guidance_CH 06-10.p65
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meeting room in that Holiday Inn, I felt more at home than at any other time on this planet. I had followed my inner guidance to this important turning point in my life, and it was as sure and natural as the pull of a magnet. And somehow, amazingly, these were my people.
Mr. Adams continued to speak. “If a person opens his heart to their guidance, the ECK Masters will work with a seeker and train him until he is ready to take a step onto the path of Eckankar. For this high-school teacher, that training was happening in earnest in her classroom when I met her and her students.”
ECK Masters? Were there really spiritual masters watching over our every move, guiding and directing us to our heart’s desire—if only we ask for their assistance?
I had read about them in the book that Mr. Adams had left in my classroom some time ago, and I longed to believe.
My ears filled with a sound like ocean waves breaking on the beach. I knew this was the Voice of God speaking to me. I could hardly hear anything else Mr.
Adams said. But it didn’t matter.
When the talk ended, Mr. Adams picked up a guitar and sang a song that he had written about how we are watched over, inwardly guided, protected, and eventually led home. It was inspired by his understanding of Eckankar and the events he’d witnessed in his brief sojourn in my classroom. The song filled me with an overwhelming flow of love and a profound sense of peace and happiness.
M any of my questions from the past several years were answered during the course of that day.
I recalled the prayer that, as a high-school teacher, I had whispered each day before I began classes. The Inner Guidance_CH 06-10.p65
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wording always varied a little, but the message remained the same: “Dear God, please show me what to teach them. Teach me truth.”
By observing this simple practice, I had opened my heart and asked for guidance. Had the ECK Masters truly answered? Being taught from ECKANKAR—The Key to Secret Worlds would certainly seem to imply that.
Mr. Adams had told the audience that Eckankar teaches there is a living Master who is willing to help guide us all; there is always a living Master—the Living ECK Master, a teacher of divine truth. There were many things I was still in the process of learning and confirm-ing for myself, yet I definitely wanted a greater understanding of these teachings. Fortunately, Eckankar is also a path of personal experience. You are not asked to believe anything that you cannot prove for yourself.
Having already had some amazing experiences, I was all ears!
One aspect of truth that my students and I had discovered through the classroom experiences is that each of us is Soul and we exist because God loves us.
Soul is an eternal being that has chosen to incarnate here to fulfill Its greatest spiritual potential in this lifetime. At the seminar that day, I learned that this was an important part of the teachings of Eckankar.
And I heard more about Paul Twitchell, an ECK
Master who researched, gathered, wrote, and compiled vast amounts of esoteric wisdom, doctrine, and detailed accounts of spiritual experiences. He launched the modern-day path of Eckankar.
I also learned that my students had actually been right about the inner library I had somehow tapped into as I wrote the quotes on the classroom chalkboard. Truth exists eternally and is stored for those who seek to discover it for themselves. The whole story of the past Inner Guidance_CH 06-10.p65
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Tears began to stream down my face as everyone in the room now turned to see me. I quickly sat down in the closest seat I could find.
Instinctively I knew I had come home; such was the contentment I was experiencing. Standing in a crowded Inner Guidance_CH 06-10.p65
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7/3/2013, 7:58 AM
Resolving Karmic Connections from the Past:
Inner Guidance Opens an Ancient Door
57
meeting room in that Holiday Inn, I felt more at home than at any other time on this planet. I had followed my inner guidance to this important turning point in my life, and it was as sure and natural as the pull of a magnet. And somehow, amazingly, these were my people.
Mr. Adams continued to speak. “If a person opens his heart to their guidance, the ECK Masters will work with a seeker and train him until he is ready to take a step onto the path of Eckankar. For this high-school teacher, that training was happening in earnest in her classroom when I met her and her students.”
ECK Masters? Were there really spiritual masters watching over our every move, guiding and directing us to our heart’s desire—if only we ask for their assistance?
I had read about them in the book that Mr. Adams had left in my classroom some time ago, and I longed to believe.
My ears filled with a sound like ocean waves breaking on the beach. I knew this was the Voice of God speaking to me. I could hardly hear anything else Mr.
Adams said. But it didn’t matter.
When the talk ended, Mr. Adams picked up a guitar and sang a song that he had written about how we are watched over, inwardly guided, protected, and eventually led home. It was inspired by his understanding of Eckankar and the events he’d witnessed in his brief sojourn in my classroom. The song filled me with an overwhelming flow of love and a profound sense of peace and happiness.
M any of my questions from the past several years were answered during the course of that day.
I recalled the prayer that, as a high-school teacher, I had whispered each day before I began classes. The Inner Guidance_CH 06-10.p65
57
7/3/2013, 7:58 AM
58
Inner Guidance: Our Divine Birthright
wording always varied a little, but the message remained the same: “Dear God, please show me what to teach them. Teach me truth.”
By observing this simple practice, I had opened my heart and asked for guidance. Had the ECK Masters truly answered? Being taught from ECKANKAR—The Key to Secret Worlds would certainly seem to imply that.
Mr. Adams had told the audience that Eckankar teaches there is a living Master who is willing to help guide us all; there is always a living Master—the Living ECK Master, a teacher of divine truth. There were many things I was still in the process of learning and confirm-ing for myself, yet I definitely wanted a greater understanding of these teachings. Fortunately, Eckankar is also a path of personal experience. You are not asked to believe anything that you cannot prove for yourself.
Having already had some amazing experiences, I was all ears!
One aspect of truth that my students and I had discovered through the classroom experiences is that each of us is Soul and we exist because God loves us.
Soul is an eternal being that has chosen to incarnate here to fulfill Its greatest spiritual potential in this lifetime. At the seminar that day, I learned that this was an important part of the teachings of Eckankar.
And I heard more about Paul Twitchell, an ECK
Master who researched, gathered, wrote, and compiled vast amounts of esoteric wisdom, doctrine, and detailed accounts of spiritual experiences. He launched the modern-day path of Eckankar.
I also learned that my students had actually been right about the inner library I had somehow tapped into as I wrote the quotes on the classroom chalkboard. Truth exists eternally and is stored for those who seek to discover it for themselves. The whole story of the past Inner Guidance_CH 06-10.p65
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