Use and meanings of the words Ik Oankar, Ek ankar, Ekankar, and also Eka un kar

[Henosis Sage]

Use and meanings of the words Ik Oankar, Ek ankar, Ekankar, and also Eka un kar

and all that for the record ....

"Ekankar became Oankar whose one vibration spread as the creation."

2014-01 Origins of the word Ekankar and the HU by James Bean

From Sant Mat Radhasoami Blogspot Friday, January 17, 2014
See http://SantMatRadhasoami.Blogspot.com

The Origins of Ekankar

A question someone asked about this icon image of Guru Nanak: "Can you please tell me more
about the symbol on Guru Nanak's palm?"

When a spiritual Master is waving to us in this way, showing the palm of the hand, this means he is
giving us his blessing.

As for the symbol: Ekankar (Ik Onkar , ) means "God is One." It is made up of two characters, the
Punjabi character for the number 'one' and the Punjabi letter 'Urha' for 'Onkar' meaning 'God'.

"Ekankar" does not come, and has never come from, the "Pali" language or any dialect of Tibetan
origin. Rather, it's Punjabi.

"Punjabi is an Indian language, which belongs to the outer-circle of the Indo-Aryan
languages and distantly related English being a member of the same Indo-European
language family. It is a modern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Punjab states of
both India and Pakistan. It nearly resembles Hindi and Urdu."
http://www.sikhspirit.com/khalsa/punjabi1.htm


Ik Onkar/Ek Ong Kaar/Ekankar are also alternate spellings of "AUM" or "OM" and refers to the
Sound Current, the Divine Sound of the cosmos.

Ik Onkar is also the first phrase in the Mool Mantra, the opening phrase of Guru Nanak's Jap Ji
(Morning Prayer) in the Guru Granth (Sikh Scriptures).


Julian P. Johnson wrote in his spiritual classic, Path of the Masters:
"In the literature of the Saints, God is expressed by many words, such as Swami, Ekankar,
Nirankar, Radha-swami, Akal, Nirala, Anami, Agam, Alakh, Sat Purush, Prabhu,
Prabhswami, Hart Roy, Akshar, Parameshwar, Akshar Purush, etc. All of these words have
been coined in an effort to convey to human intelligence some idea of what the Saints think
of God, or Lord God, the highest power.

"Ekankar means the 'One oneness,' 'the body of oneness.' Nirankar means without body
or form. Soami or Swami means the all-pervading Lord."

"Ekankar" does not mean "conscious co-worker of the Divine Plan or God."

However, back in the 1950's Sant Kirpal Singh did coin this phrase, and often used variations of it
in his teachings, as can be confirmed with a serious search of his writings, most of which are
available for free online.

"Unless one becomes a Conscious Co-worker of the Divine Plan by complete self-surrender
and annihilation of ego, the goal of spiritual perfection cannot be attained." (Kirpal Singh)

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Bhai Gurdas Vaaran - The Five Gurus

On assuming form that formless Lord was called as the boundless Ekankar.

Ekankar became Oankar whose one vibration spread as the creation.

Then were created the five elements and five friends (truth, contentment and
compassion etc.) and five enemies (the five evil propensities) of the creatures.

Man harnessed the incurable ailments of five evil propensities and three qualities
of nature and maintained his virtuous reputation of being a sadhu.

Five Gurus one after the other composed thousands of hymns, bat in praise of
Ekankar.

The bearer of five lettered name, Nanak Dev, became prominent like God and
was called Guru.

http://searchgurbani.com/bhai_gurdas_vaaran/vaar/39/pauri/2/


He is pure and has no partner. To meet Him one has to make Ekankar the Lord,
dwell in one's heart. Then alone will the love for Adi Niranjan be awakened.
http://santmat-thetruth.de/index.php?option=com_book&book=3886&page=270

There are two forces at work in nature.

One is Kal Time or the Negative Power, or Maha Kal the great Negative Power.

And the other is Akal Timeless.

Both were created by the Lord to unfold and develop the creation. The Lord or the
Absolute manifested as Sat Purush True Being, or Akal Purush Timeless One, and
unfolded the universe.

The region of Ekankar is beyond the reach of dissolution and grand dissolution.

The Saints aim at attaining this region-of-no-return.


The Tenth Guru in the line of Guru Nanak says:
"You are the destroyer of Kal and Maha Kal, You are the deathless one."

Those who have access to Sat Purush or Ekankar are called Saints. Guru Nanak and
his successors have called them Satgurus.

Those who realise the True One are called Satgurus.
Gauri M5, 286-12

There are millions of Brahm-Loks, or higher regions that work under the governance
of Brahms who represent the Ekankar and carry out His Orders and revolve around
Him being taken care of and sustained by Him. Saints obey the True Being.

The Brahm have no control over the Saints. Saints by initiating persons into the
mystery of the Name of God, take them direct to Sat Purush. Ekankar is different
from the Onkar of the Vedas.

Onkar is the ruler of the three worlds, and his domains extend up to and include
Trikuti, the second spiritual region.

Ekankar is Akal Purush or Sat Purush the True God. He is beyond Kal, the negative
power. Kal merely supports this creation; but Ekankar is all pervading and is the
ruler of all the five regions.

Ekankar can be realized through a True Master by remaining in His company.
Attaining Him, doubts, perversions, delusions and egotism are destroyed. The mind
comes under control and one swims across the ocean of phenomena.

http://santmat-thetruth.de/index.php?option=com_book&book=3886&page=271


Ek Onkar is the symbol that represents the "One Supreme Reality" or "One God."
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Ek_Onkar

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Paul Twitchell says that Eckankar is a Hindu word
... in square peg, cliffhanger articles etc Square peg quote reads:

"a new religion entitled Eckankar... a Hindu word meaning Union with God."

The use of the word "coined" refers to Twitchell inventing the word and meaning for Cliff-Hanger.

For clarity about the "oneness" quotes:

Ekankar means the 'one oneness', the body of oneness. [PotM - Radhasoami]
http://www.mirrorh.com/potmnots.html

"ECKANKAR means the one oneness, the body of oneness. [TFC - Eckankar]
http://www.mirrorh.com/tfctfc.html



In the Far Country (written circa 1963/64 and later
published in 1971) Paul also states:

VARIOUS NAMES OF GOD

"ECKANKAR means the one oneness, the body of oneness. All, or Totality
- this is the secret name of God or the SUGMAD which will be creeping
into these talks between us as I go deeper into this philosophy."

"Nirankar means without body or form. Advaita, Soami or Swami means
the all-pervading Lord.
"The whole universe is considered as One, the true ECKANKAR. There is
perfect oneness in the universe, which is also coexistent with God, infinite,
unlimited. Hence, the SUGMAD is Nirankar, i.e. formless."
Ref: Chapter One TFC


In the PotM by Julian Johnson

4. NAMES OF THE SUPREME BEING

"In the literature of the saints, God is expressed by many words,
such as Soami, Ekankar, Nirankar, Radha Soami, Akal, Nirala,
Anami, Agam, Alakh, Sat Punish, Prabhu, Prabhswami, Hari Rai,
Akshar, Parameshwar, Akshar Purush, etc. All of these words have
been coined in an effort to convey to human intelligence some
idea of what the saints think of God, or Lord God, the highest
power.

"Ekankar means the 'one oneness', the body of oneness.
Nirankar means 'without body or form'. Soami or Swami means
the 'all-pervading lord'.

"The whole universe is considered as one, the true Ekankar. There
is perfect oneness in the universe, which is also coexistent with
God -- infinite, unlimited. Hence, the Soami is nirankar, that is,
formless."

OK, so essentially, it's the same text, the same ideas, the same system of thought and practice.

Radhasoami and Eckankar no significance differences here. The text is basically the same.


However Twitchell still never uses the word Eckankar as a name for God until The Far Country in
late 1971. Everywhere else it means coworker with God or the path of total awareness etc..

Sant Kirpal Singh of Ruhani Satsang goes further:

"The sages and the saints have described God in
innumerable terms, as for instance Swami or Soami,
meaning Lord God; Nirala (peerless or without a
compeer); Anami (the nameless); Har Rai, Agam or Alakh
(the incomprehensible or the ineffable); Ram Rai or Sat
Purush (the eternal Truth or unchangeable permanence);
Ek Ankar (the one life breath or live principle); Puran
Chetan Purush (complete consciousness); Akal (timeless or
the deathless one).

"All these are just attributive or qualitative names -
names signifying one or another of God's attributes. Such
names simply describe any one aspect or facet of God as
appealed foremost to someone's individual liking.

"Thousands of such names appear in holy scriptures: Ram
(all-pervading), Rahim (gracious or merciful), Girdhari
(encompassing), Murari, Allah, Khuda, Wah-i-Guru, and
the like. The Jews call Him Yahweh or Jehovah. All these
names are worthy of our adoration for each one of them
tries to single out some aspect of the Beloved.
I revere each one of Thy names, O God! 2"

http://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/naam/naam_b1_intro1.htm


and the Ruhani Glossary says:

EK-ANKAR -- The Unmanifest-Manifested, God-in-expression power, the
holy Word, the primal manifestation of Godhead by which and in which all live,
move and have their being and by which all find a way back to Absolute God.
http://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/gloss.htm


ALL RELIGIONS TEACH OF SHABD

"In all religious books we find references to Shabd or the Creative Sound Current"
KS et al


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Use and meanings of the words Ik Oankar, Ek ankar, Ekankar, and also Eka un kar

This story tends to go back to Guru Nanak in various spellings in Punjabi, as well as in Hindu
Bhakti vernacular of different languages. The spellings and the various different meanings, even
with the same spelling, exists across centuries in India. Various forms of the words have been
recorded in Kirpal Singh's talks and writings, eg Ek Ongar Oankar Ekankar and Eka un kar though
the words are said to have different meanings in context.

People have said Paul "coined" the term Eckankar himself, that is was different than RS and Sant
mat and Sikhism. It seems unlikely given he said it was only a msispelling not an entirley new word
he coined. He'd heard "words like this" long before being used. Yet Kirpal himself used the word
with different spellings too so to which are they referring?

Kirpal Singh mentions something close to 'Ekankar' many times in his books. And of course
sometimes these are talks about the past teachings of prior masters including translations and
explanations of the Japji by Guru Nanak. So this is something new to me that I didn't know before.


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EKA UN KAR

"So have prophets talked of allah, Jesus of god and nanak of ekaunkar
satnam - one supreme true god."
http://jindal-vishal.blogspot.com/2009/10/holy-mask-1.html

Ekaunkar (or Eckankar), 27,83 (Index)
Spirituality WHAT IT IS by Kirpal Singh
http://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/pdf/Spirituality.pdf.bak
Ekaunkar pg 28

The word religion, as the term
indicates, is a great binding force that links man back to his
Creator, Whom he, by his entire absorption in the mundane
affairs of life, has entirely forgotten through having
become identified with the world. Love of man and love of
God, as also faith in God and living contact with 'God-inaction'
or the `Holy Ghost,' `Ekaunkar' or the `Word,' is the universal
religion that has been given to the world by the saints from
age to age. It is eternal and unchangeable for all times.


Onkar is the Lord of the Causal or Seed region
and the Creator of the lower region of And, or subtle
universe. Other Deities preside over other planes, in the
ascending order of the system of creation. All of Them, of
course, derive Their authority from Sat-purush or Sat
Naam, or Dayal, or Ekankar, the highest Region.

The spirit, as it withdraws from the body, proceeds by
degrees from one plane to another, until it reaches Sat
Naam or Haq. From what has been said, it should be clear
that so far the spirit is an entity quite apart from Sat Naam.

http://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/pdf/Spirituality.pdf

http://alt.religion.eckankar.narkive.com/I1xj18zv/ek-onkar-ekankar-eckankareckankar-trademark



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Guru Nanak Ekankar search Ik Oankar

Oankar is a variation of the mystic monosyllable Om (also known as anahata nada,
the unstruck sound) first set forth in the Upanisads as the transcendent object of
profound religious meditation.

Guru Nanak prefixed the numeral one (ik) to it making it Ik Oankar or Ekankar to
stress GOD's oneness. GOD is named and known only through GOD's Own immanent
nature.
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/God_in_Sikhism


Ikonkaar Satigur Prasaadi
One Oankar, the primal energy, realized through the grace of divine preceptor
http://searchgurbani.com/bhai_gurdas_vaaran/vaar/39/pauri/1

Bhai Gurdas Vaaran - The Five Gurus
On assuming form that formless Lord was called as the boundless Ekankar.
Ekankar became Oankar whose one vibration spread as the creation.

Then were created the five elements and five friends (truth, contentment and
compassion etc.) and five enemies (the five evil propensities) of the creatures.

Man harnessed the incurable ailments of five evil propensities and three qualities
of nature and maintained his virtuous reputation of being a sadhu.
Five Gurus one after the other composed thousands of hymns, bat in praise of
Ekankar.

The bearer of five lettered name, Nanak Dev, became prominent like God and
was called Guru.
http://searchgurbani.com/bhai_gurdas_vaaran/vaar/39/pauri/2/


He is pure and has no partner. To meet Him one has to make Ekankar the Lord,
dwell in one's heart. Then alone will the love for Adi Niranjan be awakened.
http://santmat-thetruth.de/index.php?option=com_book&book=3886&page=270


There are two forces at work in nature.
One is Kal Time or the Negative Power, or Maha Kal the great Negative Power.
And the other is Akal Timeless.
Both were created by the Lord to unfold and develop the creation. The Lord or the
Absolute manifested as Sat Purush True Being, or Akal Purush Timeless One, and
unfolded the universe.
The region of Ekankar is beyond the reach of dissolution and grand dissolution.
The Saints aim at attaining this region-of-no-return.

The Tenth Guru in the line of Guru Nanak says:
"You are the destroyer of Kal and Maha Kal, You are the deathless one."

Those who have access to Sat Purush or Ekankar are called Saints. Guru Nanak and
his successors have called them Satgurus.
Those who realise the True One are called Satgurus.
Gauri M5, 286-12

There are millions of Brahm-Loks, or higher regions that work under the governance
of Brahms who represent the Ekankar and carry out His Orders and revolve around
Him being taken care of and sustained by Him. Saints obey the True Being.

The Brahm have no control over the Saints. Saints by initiating persons into the
mystery of the Name of God, take them direct to Sat Purush. Ekankar is different
from the Onkar of the Vedas.

Onkar is the ruler of the three worlds, and his domains extend up to and include
Trikuti, the second spiritual region.

Ekankar is Akal Purush or Sat Purush the True God. He is beyond Kal, the negative
power. Kal merely supports this creation; but Ekankar is all pervading and is the
ruler of all the five regions.

Ekankar can be realized through a True Master by remaining in His company.
Attaining Him, doubts, perversions, delusions and egotism are destroyed. The mind
comes under control and one swims across the ocean of phenomena.
http://santmat-thetruth.de/index.php?option=com_book&book=3886&page=271


Ek Onkar is the symbol that represents the "One Supreme Reality" or "One God."
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Ek_Onkar


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If Paul Twitchell later - in 1966 - said that Eckankar was a misspelling of
Ekankar I can now see why. I can see the spelling as Ekankar not only in Julian
Johnson and Kirpal Singh's written works, but I can see it in Paul Twitchell's
own writing and, reportedly, mentioned in 1966 by his own words.

An important example:

Julian Johnson in The Path of the Masters 1939 says: "Ekankar means the one
oneness, the body of oneness."

Paul Twitchell via Rebazar Tarzs in TFC 1971 says: "ECKANKAR means the one
oneness, the body of oneness."

According to Paul via Doug Marman: Eckankar is a misspelling of E k a n k a r

FROM: 1966 Audio Tape by Paul Twitchell: Names, Places and Sounds in the Discourses.

"Eckankar is the Science of Total Awareness because it is dealing with the upper planes, and it
can go quite deeply into the life of the upper planes. You'll find that the word of itself is a
mispronounced or corrupted spelling that came out of the word E-k-a-n-k-a-r (Paul verbally
spells the word out), which means the One Supreme All-inclusiveness of God, or the Co-Worker
of God." Exact Quote 2011-11-09 by D.M. a.r.e. post

The recording has no references of where or when it was made. Not sure if public talk or
private. Maybe made for chelas asking questions about what the words meant. Years ago the
tape was studied carefully by Doug Marman, who says that it must have been around 1966, and
one of Paul's earliest taped recordings.

First known public report about this by anyone?
"Paul in his 1966 talk said that Eckankar was a misspelling of Ekankar, which means the one
all-inclusiveness of God. That's generally the interpretation of what Ek Onkar means."
[D.M. on a.r.e. post 2010-03-04 link]


James Dean Sikhs et al say:
As for the symbol: Ekankar (Ik Onkar , ) means "God is One."
It is made up of two characters, the Punjabi character for the
number 'one' and the Punjabi letter 'Urha' for 'Onkar' meaning 'God'.


[PTHA 2011] 1966 The Spelling of ECKankar v EKankar by Paul Twitchell
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPV3JCcW5lOUYtLUU/view?usp=sharing


Ekankar became Oankar whose one vibration spread as the creation
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPVllsUDlsNk1DcU0/view?usp=sharing



2014-01 Origins of the word Ekankar and the HU by James Bean (Radhasoami)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPMGVmUTdsMk4wVk0/view?usp=sharing



2014-12 'Ik Onkar' 'Ek Onkar' 'Ekankar' 'Eckankar' and 'Marmankar' (Copy)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPYWI4U3VRcDY0dUk/view?usp=sharing


Eckankar, the philosophy of out of the body experience, is that understanding
which I have gained from bilocation excursions similar to those in the lives
of the saints of all faiths.

Eckankar is the study of the bilocation experience. Man needs to learn to
leave his body at will and dwell in his spirit body, on other planes.

The orthodox eastern philosophies teach that man must become one with God, but
I cannot hold to this concept. The individual self of man becomes a co-worker
of God, not a part of the unity of Him, in the sense of being one with the
divine source anyway, for we are dwelling in body of God, but we have the
freedom of movement and of choice inside this framework of the Almighty.

Most of those striving to become one with God often lose their way on the part
of the spirit and become trapped, thus failing the purpose of their creation
as an individual.

1964-01 Orion Magazine Eckankar Bilocation Philosophy [Original OCR]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPRkJCNEhsRkFsdmc/view?usp=sharing



This zany character is called the vanguard of a new religion,
entitled "Eckankar," a Hindu word meaning Union with God.
This unorthodoi phiIasophy received a wide welcome among the

The Cliff Hanger seeks solace in meditation and bi-location
experiences common in the lives of the old Christian savants.
His saints are Kabir; 16th century Hindu-poet-weaver. and ancient
Sufi avartars, Jalal al-din Rumi, Hafiz, and Shamus-i-Tabiz,

1963-07-16 The Square Peg by Paul Twitchell OCR Text (SCP 1979) (Copy)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPRHF6V00yWEF2cjA/view?usp=sharing



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1964-07 Psychic Observer Mag - The Cliff Hanger by Paul Twitchell [OCR text - Redacted Square Peg 1963]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPbzVEWjk0QVo1ZVk/view?usp=sharing






World literature is filled with the records of those who

were able to leave their body and return at will. Among them

are: Apollonius, Jamal din Rumi, Kabir, Tulsa Das, St. Anthony

of padua, zoraster, Shelley, Arnold Bennett, Napoleon,. Jack

London and many others.


Paul Twitchell brings new techniques to those interested in

bilocation. Taking the old and putting together new ideas he

has codified a system called Eckankar, for those concerned with

out-of-the-body experiences, by making use of their natural

faculties as the modus operandi. Be has developed a complete

new philosophy around this.

1964-12 Ancient Teachings of Bilocation - Eckankar Promotion Course Info San Diego [SCP Text]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPSlZFblViSTdHWEU/view?usp=sharing



So, how simple was that? ;-)

Clear as Mud now?

[Henosis Sage]

KIRPAL SINGH & EKANKAR & EK-ANKAR
https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:www.ruhanisatsangusa.org+ek-ankar

KIRPAL SINGH & NIRANKAR
https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:www.ruhanisatsangusa.org+nirankar

KIRPAL SINGH & CO-WORKER About 187 results
https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:www.ruhanisatsangusa.org+CO-WORKER

[Henosis Sage]

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KIRPAL SINGH & "MASTER POWER" -- About 267 results
https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:www.ruhanisatsangusa.org+%22master+power%22

[Etznab]

Does that suggest "Eckankar" (according to Paul Twitchell in 1963) was a Hindu word meaning Union with God?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPRHF6V00yWEF2cjA/view

Contrast 1963 "Union with God" and 1964: "The orthodox eastern philosophies teach that man must become one with God, but I cannot hold to this concept."

Example:

"... The orthodox eastern philosophies teach that man must become one with God, but I cannot hold to this concept. The individual self of man becomes a co-worker of God, not a part of the unity of Him, in the sense of being one with the divine source anyway, for we are dwelling in body of God, but we have the freedom of movement and of choice inside this framework of the Almighty.

"Most of those striving to become one with God often lose their way on the part
of the spirit and become trapped, thus failing the purpose of their creation as an individual."

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPRkJCNEhsRkFsdmc/view?usp=sharing

Where does the idea of "Union with God" come from?

Some possibly related articles:

(1)

"[...] According to Kabir, all life is an interplay of two spiritual principles. One is the personal soul (Jivatma) and the other is God (Paramatma). It is Kabir's view that salvation is the process of bringing into union these two divine principles. [....]"

[Based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir]

(2)

"[...] Through contemplation and inner practice known as sahaj-yoga the devotee can catch hold of the shabd and traverse the higher regions of the creation. He [Kabir] proclaimed that the highest aspiration of the human soul is to attain ultimate union with the Supreme Being, and nothing short of it, not even paradise, would satisfy it. [... .]"

http://web.archive.org/web/20090703091643/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9563/chapter2.html

(3)

"[...] Hazur's teachings are esoteric and not exoteric. He taught - God is in every heart. Spirituality is the common heritage of the entire world and humanity, and is not reserved for any particular country or nationality. The be-all and end-all of spirituality is the union of the soul with the Omnipotent Over-Soul. [... .]"

http://web.archive.org/web/20080619132354/http://santhakar.tripod.com/saints/bio-17.html

(4)

"The Sar Bachan Radhasoami Poetry is a most other-worldly, heavenly document, based upon Swami Ji's own inner travels, attainments and spiritual realizations. 'For about fifteen years, Soami Ji Maharaj used to shut Himself up in a room which was within another room [a meditation room within a room of his home in Agra]. He was all the time absorbed in the bliss of Divine Light and Sound meditation.' (Huzur Maharaj) After this period of deep exploration of the inner regions and union with his Beloved Radhasoami in Sach Khand, Swami Ji emerged and began his Mission of public satsang and teaching. [... ."

http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/464036 [T.D. - 12/15/08]

(5)

"[...] The turning point in Sawan Singh's life came when he met his spiritual guru, Baba Jaimal Singh, and took initiation under him in the path of surat shabd yoga (union of the soul with the divine inner sound). Such was Sawan's readiness that in just over nine years he became an acknowledged master within the Sant Mat and Radhasoami traditions. In fact, except for Maharaj Charan Singh, the Satguru at Beas from 1951 to 1990, Sawan Singh attracted the largest following of any shabd yoga master in history, initiating more than 125,000 people into the mystic practice. [... .]

[Based on: http://vclass.mtsac.edu:930/phil/saint.htm]

(6)

... Yogoda, a word coined by Paramahansa Yogananda, is derived from Yoga, union, harmony, equilibrium; and da, "that which imparts". ... .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogoda_Satsanga

For more trivia about "Union with God" go here:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22Union+with+God%22

So at one point Paul described Eckankar as a Hindu word meaning Union with God.

Later, I believe, the emphasis was more about union with the "Spirit" of God.

So there was a Punjabi word called "Eckankar" , or "Ekankar".

[Etznab]

A Punjabi word for "union" (looks related to "yoga, yogi")

http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Jogi

With regard to: "(4) The process of a uniting soul with Universal Soul (God) by means of contemplative meditatiion." the Punjabi word appears to be "Samarth".

https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A5

Search (all dictionaries option) for samarth (as prefix) at following link.

http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche

[Henosis Sage]

On Wednesday, 6 May 2015 21:27:40 UTC+10, Henosis Sage wrote:

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This article may help make things clearer.

2014-12 'Ik Onkar' 'Ek Onkar' 'Ekankar' 'Eckankar' and 'Marmankar'

"Falsehood # 1: Some translations spell it this way: Ekankar Sat Guru Prasad.

ABSOLUTELY WRONG

Search results for those translations (that) spell it this way: “Ekankar Sat Guru Prasad”
https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22Ekankar+Sat+Guru+Prasad%22

Only FIVE (5) Hits ... ALL about MARMAN's own book, by Marman.

Of course the resemblance to Eckankar and the other spelling Ekankar, is no
accident here, because Marman is intentionally conflating it all by himself.
By so doing he is manipulating the reader to IMAGINE THERE IS A CONNECTION
..... when in fact there is none."
see
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPdU93bVNDTnNZWDA/view?usp=sharing

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Ek Onkar is a different word and meaning to Ek-Ankar & Ekankar.

GODMAN - The Nature of Oneness
...Ek Onkar (the one God unmanifest) becomes Akar (the manifest) and assumes
the appellation of a Guru. He who can tell you of the Reality (impersonal) and
put you in contact with Reality (Truth eternal and unchangeable permanence),...
http://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/godman/godman_25.htm

...EK-ANKAR—The Unmanifest-Manifested, God-in-expression power, the holy Word,

the primal manifestation of Godhead by which and in which all live, move and

have their being and by which all find a way back to Absolute God. GAGGAN —
The... http://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/gloss.htm

NANAK USES IT DIFFERENTLY THAN TWITCHELL DOES ....

Therefore, consistently throughout Sikhism the terminology Ik Onkar, Ek Onkar,
Ikoaʼnkār, Ek Oankaar, etc. always basically means “There is only One God”.

This same phraseology, no matter what language, is also used as another Name
for God. Sat Naam is another name for God commonly used by Sikhs. For the
entirely different word of “Ekankar” – “one lord” is the most used meaning
today.

EKANKÁR - Punjabi Dictionary
Corrupted from the Sanskrit word Ongkár - the mystic name of God .
It is used at the beginning of prayers and holy recitations , and also at
the beginning of writing and respectful salutations ; Onkár .

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The Spiritual Notebook by Paul Twitchell, The Illuminated Way Press, 1971,
p. 96 says: We never "become one with God" as the metaphysicians or
religionists claim. What actually happens is that we become one with Spirit,
the essence of God. This is what is so often poetically named the Breath of
God.


Kirpal Singh of Ruhani Satsang has consistently said:

“Naam or Word BOOK ONE” VARIOUS NAMES OF GOD

The sages and the saints have described God in innumerable terms, as for instance
Swami or Soami, meaning Lord God; Nirala (peerless or without a compeer); Anami (the
nameless); Har Rai, Agam or Alakh (the incomprehensible or the ineffable); Ram Rai or Sat
Purush (the eternal Truth or unchangeable permanence); Ek Ankar (the one life breath or
live principle); Puran Chetan Purush (complete consciousness); Akal (timeless or the deathless one).

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In a.r.e. post 2011-11-09, Doug Marman says:
Paul Twitchell's actual words in the 1966 talk: Names, Places and Sounds in the Discourses.

“You’ll find that the word of itself is a mispronounced or corrupted spelling

that came out of the word E-k-a-n-k-a-r (Paul verbally spells the word out),
which means the One Supreme All-inclusiveness of God, or the Co-Worker of God."

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/alt.religion.eckankar/aCZ819f1HIc/fLckMMmDzDUJ%5B1-25%5D

The Eckankar Dictionary by Paul Twitchell pg 44 says:

ECKANKAR (ehk'-ahn-kahr)
The Path of Total Awareness; the way of all things; means "co-worker with God";
a teaching which gives knowledge of both the light and the sound which contains
the total sum of all teaching emanating from God;
the very foundation of all systems of science, and the key to success in unfolding
all spiritual powers;
the Ancient Science of Soul Travel;
projection of the inner consciousness which travels through the lower states
until it ascends into the ecstatic states where the subject feels he possesses
an awareness of the religious experience of being, which is achieved through a
series of spiritual exercises known only to the followers of this science.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPdU93bVNDTnNZWDA/view?usp=sharing



Bottom line is that Twitchell created entirely new meanings for the word
"Eckankar" he made up...

[Henosis Sage]

Ek Oankaar ੴ: Together, these two words, or Gurmukhi symbols, blend into
the one idea: "One Universal Creator God – or - There is only One God."

The other common use of the term "Ek Oankaar" etc., is as a NAME FOR GOD


CONTRARY to THIS the Term ECKANKAR, according to Twitchell, means:

ECKANKAR (ehk'-ahn-kahr)
"One Supreme All-inclusiveness of God";
"Co-worker with God";

The Path of Total Awareness;

Teaching of both the Light and Sound (ECK);
The Ancient Science of Soul Travel;
Eckankar is a codified system concerned with bilocation,
soul travel & out-of-the-body experiences, by making use
of natural faculties as the modus operandi.

In Eckankar, ECK means Spirit, the light and sound.

In Sikhism, EK means one. They are not the same things.

As Paul said, it's semantics. Words do mean different things to different people.

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However, Julian Johnson notes in his PotM book 1939:

Pg 136 "As intimated above, the content of the Sikh religion is so nearly
identical with that of Sant Mat that there is but little reason to
attempt a separate analysis. Guru Nanak and his spiritual succes-
sors were saints, Satgurus in the true sense of the word, and conse-
quently their teachings coincide with those of all other saints. There
can never be any difference between the teachings in any age of
the world."

iow there are strong ties between traditional Hindu Sant Mat, Kabir, Nanak,
the Sikh Gurus and religion, and Radhasoami which started in 1861 with Shiv
Dayal Singh in the Punjab the home of Sikhism in India.


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The ECKANKAR Office mentions Guru Nanak and the Sikh teachings in their letter to David Lane
about Kirpal Singh and Paul Twitchell back in 1977.

“Guru Nanak during the 15th century, wrote in his book JAP JI of ECKANKAR.. He had
received his second initiation in ECKANKAR through Rebazar Tarzs.”

See: 1977-04-05 Eckankar letter to David Lane re Twitchell Eck Masters vs Kirpal Singh Forgery

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPaHJMVDRjMjV4S2s/view?usp=sharing

This is never mentioned in any main book by Eckankar. I'm not sure if it is in the discourses.
I think if Rebazar Tarzs was really Sant Kabir, it would make for an interesting story. Either way,
it's still only a story from Paul Twitchell. His word isn't reliable or trustworthy when comes to
historical things like this.


However, it is abundantly clearer today that ECKANKAR is based upon (holds to)
many of the same teachings and ideas from the Sufis, Sant Mat, Radhasoami,
Sikhism, Theosophy, Kriya Yoga, Scientology, Bilocation & OOBEs, Kabir,
Hinduism, Buddhism, and more.

It's irrational to suggest that a Sikh guru was teaching what he knew about 'Eckankar" back in the 1600s .... it's "Putting the Cart before the Horse."

VAIRAG is also a well known term in Sikhism and Hinduism and Radhasoami teachings.

Clearly Twitchell felt that meditation techniques and OOBEs Bilocation in
harmony with the "eck" was an excellent MO for spiritual seekers.

That he developed his own ideas and methods which he taught as Eckankar - and
which is and was quite different to these other paths, teachings & practices
in some ways.

That from the beginning he spoke of being guided and protected during soul travel oobes by spirit (eck) and inner guides.

In mid-1968, five years after Twitchell first used the term ECKANKAR publicly,
there was still no Vairagi ECK Masters, or Mahanta, and no Living ECK Master.

That changed dramatically in late-168 early 1969.

The book ETKTSW in early 1969 introduced a whole new basis for Twitchell's
Eckankar teachings that separated it from Twitchell's own life history and
the literary sources of most of his own writings on ECKANKAR from then on.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPdU93bVNDTnNZWDA/view?usp=sharing


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The Key to Eckankar

Written with hindsight by Paul in 1968 reflecting back to Seattle WA, 1961-1964

TELLING QUOTE:

“The greater the appetite for power, the less

respect for truth. It is a self-stimulating vice,

especially deadly when rooted in the

exercise of authority and aggravated by

intellectual conceit. That is the reason why

so-called statesmen can be such liars!"


"One can easily become a spiritual criminal

unless he gets control of himself and grants

others the freedom that he would have for

himself. Any guru, holy man, saint, or

master finding his chela using this force for

the wrong purposes would certainly stop

him.”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPXzJ4RjMtd0I3eHc/view?usp=sharing

[Henosis Sage]

The 1968 The KEY to ECKANKAR is really interesting, as it conflates copied
texts with RT speaking personally to Paul Twitchell ... said to be years
before in Seattle WA circa 1961 into 1963.

The same time period he was visiting Pasadena CA for dealings with ed parker
and james mitose, and the theosophy library there; and writing letters to gail.

Here are some of the verbatim Yellow Highlighted Plagiarisms in this short booklet.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPTDduWlQzdXpGQ2M/view?usp=sharing


ORIGINAL TEXTS SOURCES AUTHORS

Neville Goddard (New Thought Movement - NTM)

Talbot Mundy (Novelist/Occult)

L. Ron Hubbard (NTM/Occult)

Joel S. Goldsmith (NTM)

WT Stace (Philosophy of Mysticism)

Seng Ts’an (Buddhist)

Christmas Humphreys (Buddhist)

EA Burtt' (Buddhist)


The Key to Eckankar is about 43 pages of text.

Similarities (near or exact) between text for The Key

to Eckankar and the writings of Neville Goddard

appear on, or about pp. 5-6; the writings of Talbot

Mundy, p. 6; Neville Goddard pp. 6-7; W. T. Stace, pp.

8-9; Christmas Humphreys, p. 10, Talbot Mundy, p.

14; Neville Goddard, pp. 16-17; Joel Goldsmith, pp.

18-19; Sengtsan, pp. 21-22, Talbot Mundy, pp. 23-25,

27; Scientology Dynamics, p. 27; Neville Goddard, p.

28; Scientology Axioms, p. 37; Joel Goldsmith, pp. 40-

42. (@ Nov 2012)


And Harold Klemp, in his Introduction for The Key to
Eckankar, writes:

"First printed in 1968, The Key to ECKANKAR was

one of the early books that introduced people to that

wonderful Tibetan ECK Master, Rebazar Tarzs. His

conversation with Paul is a historical document that

reflects Paul Twitchell's state of consciousness at that

time."


Nope, that wasn't RT speaking there. It's Paul writing how he always wrote
"lifting" selected bits of text from others and then making it his "own"
or an ECK master's.

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And some obvious verbatim plagiarism in the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad I
versus The Lost Continent of MU by James Churchward (33 degree Freemason)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPc05aWm42Q0xyWDQ/view?usp=sharing

OR this summary document

PLAGIARISM by Paul Twitchell LISTED by Author Book Movement
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPYXBLQXluTEx2VTg/view?usp=sharing


Yeah, check it out. :-)

[Etznab]

This was an interesting post. I saw something in the English translations I didn't see before. The one God unmanifest. The unmanifest manifested, etc.

This section about the Sanskrit word Ongkar, however, is curious. I am not so sure this is a Sanskrit word. Omkar(a) is, but I'm not so sure about Ongkar. Example:

"EKANKÁR - Punjabi Dictionary - Corrupted from the Sanskrit word Ongkár - the mystic name of God. It is used at the beginning of prayers and holy recitations, and also at the beginning of writing and respectful salutations; Onkár."

I know that a.r.e. has approached this duplicity of Omkar vs. Ongkar from many angles in the past, but to me it still looks unresolved and in need of further clarification.

The idea that Nanak (or his successors) tried to distance their selves from the classical Hindu Trimurti is (to me) sort of like saying Eckankar tried to also distance itself from other religions and religious terms holding negative stereotypes.

Now there does appear to be the idea of "creation" within the Hindu Trimurti. In fact, creation is a basic part of the trinity!

Where do the following definitions occur?

"a beginning, prosperous or auspicious beginning of (e.g. a science)"

"a Buddhist S3akti or female personification of divine energy"

Those were both sections for definitions of the Sanskrit word omkara.

1 (mwd) omkAra (%{oM-k-}) m. the sacred and mystical syllable %{om}, the exclamation %{om}, pronouncing the syllable %{om} Mn. ii, 75; 81 Katha1s. Bhag. &c., (cf. %{vijayoMkAra}, %{kRtoMkAra}) [236,1]; a beginning, prosperous or auspicious beginning of (e.g. a science) Ba1lar. ; N. of a Lin3ga ; (%{A}) f. a Buddhist S3akti or female personification of divine energy L.; %{-grantha} m. N. of wk. of Na1ra1yan2a ; %{-tIrtha} n. N. of a Ti1rtha ; %{-pITha} n. N. of a place; %{-bhaTTa} m. N. of a man.

http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche

There has, for a long time, been a classical paradox regarding male and female attributes of "God". Or ways that "God" and "Creation" were explained with the use of masculine and feminine energies. The general result had been that the "female" was the actual "god in manifestation power", whereas "God" was more like a Shiva figure in contemplative repose, unaffected by creation and created things, etc.

These things could very well be symbolic and metaphoric allusions to things with meanings having become lost, disowned, or overwritten in favor of newer forms of religious teachings. Even in the Anurag Sagar there were many apparent symbols for things.

I think it very difficult for the modern person to discover what is buried beneath modern forms of "Hinduism" and "New Age" teachings; as even modern science - with all its gadgets - is struggling with proof of how the universe was actually created, or how subatomic particles gain mass.

From time immemorial there has been a basic reaction by the human intellect for explanation of things it doesn't fully know about, or understand. It imagines! People imagine and then tell stories about their imaginations which, after they become popular and believed by many people, create mass and carry a new weight; in spite of whether the imaginations correspond with reality, or anything in the real world.

Who really knows what happened in Nanak's, or Kabir's time apart from the texts that survived? Who really knows about Jesus apart from the same?; texts written by people years after the fact? There could very well be many "imaginations" in the surviving records of history. In fact, I've been looking at word histories and world histories for over ten years now and can attest to the fact there are many as yet "unknowns". (Along with a lot of people claiming to know.)

In the Sanskrit dictionary that I use, nowhere do the letters "ong" appear. Let alone, "ongkar". However, I'm still looking.

I think one need go back to the time of Nanak - or the person who wrote the writings - and look at the state of religious teachings in that part of the world. Look at how people were affected, how they believed, what was popular and what were the contending dogmas. By the time of Kabir and Nanak I believe Islam had already made inroads within the continent of India.

Imagine the scene. A monotheistic religion like Islam said to abhor the idea of making, or worshiping idols. And where in the world were there more idols than in India? Where were there more ways of portraying the aspects of God in symbolic form?

Can we say India?

How did the conservative Muslim scholars view the lingam and yoni, I wonder?

God is one? Think about it. Who would want to put this idea at the beginning of writings? In fact, Why the need to do that? I think there might be a need to do that if you wanted people to abandon, or overlook their many different kinds of imaginations of God, or Gods (for the state to control the people).

Pagan Europe was transformed by a monotheistic faith / dogma ... and before that the forms of worship in Arabia ... and before that the forms of worship in Canaan! It seems almost inevitable for monotheism to accompany the growth of large urban areas where people are densely packed and begin to argue about "My God vs. your God". Inevitable as a result for maintaining civic harmony and control!

"Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic speaking peoples of the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa. ...."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Semitic_religion

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I think it a very interesting topic to explore what "Ekankar" meant in its earlier incarnations. Chiefly, how the word was coined and what it FIRST meant to the people who created it. However, that might mean using the imagination to navigate the imaginations of others in order to accurately reconstruct exactly what went awry, and when. Real accurate verifiable evidence may be necessary and I believe this is something continually being dug up so that nobody really has the last word on things until that which is hidden and occult finally comes to be revealed.

There many be reasons that religions don't want the truth to be known. Can anybody say pandamonium?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pand%C3%A6monium_%28Paradise_Lost%29

"... coined by John Milton (1608-1674) from Greek pan- "all" (see pan-) + Late Latin daemonium "evil spirit," from Greek daimonion "inferior divine power," from daimon "lesser god" (see demon)."

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=pandemonium&searchmode=none

For another interesting etymology look at the word "daemon".

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=demon&allowed_in_frame=0

[Henosis Sage]

I don't know. it's complicated and lost in time?

Ik Onkar (Gurmukhi: ੴ, ਇੱਕ ਓਅੰਕਾਰ; Ikk Ōankār Punjabi pronunciation: [ɪkː oəŋkaɾ]) is the symbol that represents the One Supreme Reality[2] and is a central tenet of Sikh religious philosophy.[1] Ik (ਇੱਕ) means one or united,[3] On (ਓਅੰ) means supreme, ultimate, or highest bhrama (God), and the Atma (Soul) of the entire universe or system,[4] and kār (ਕਾਰ) means without shape or form.

VERSUS
"Ongkár - the mystic name of God. and Onkár."


Seems that only a G is being added ... a typo way back when? or was that
added to help get the pronunciation right? I dont know.

But it's pretty close to be another corruption?

and omkAra (%{oM-k-}) doesn't seem to be Sihk or Punjabi.

i dont think the Sikhs used Sanskrit writing did they?

Ik Oankar, Ik Onkar, Ek Ankar, and Ekankar are kinda sound the same when spoken. And twitch says that 'eCkankar' was a misspelling of Ekankar.

But that Ekankar via Radhasoami and the Sikhs does not mean Ik Oankar either.

Are they 2 different words? Two different words with two different meanings,


imho whatever Twitchell decided the definitions were for Eckankar, was up
to him, but again those do not mean same as what Ik Oankar, Ik Onkar mean,
but on some occasions Eckankar does mean what Ekankar meant in RS & Ruhani.

And Twitchell was a student of RS/Ruhani for certain, and EKANKAR seems to be
a Punjabi word, not sanskrit.

But that "Ik Oankar, Ik Onkar" are sanskrit based words, via hinduism,
which was Nanak's own family religious roots, his father/uncle was a Brahmin
if i recall.

and that Kabir was more of a Sufi/Islam type who later mixed with Ramananda.

Only 50 years old and eckankar is really a convoluted story of mainly dead ends.
That's what happens when things are made up and decided on a whim and a fancy.

[Henosis Sage]

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This maybe the most important section ....

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Ek Onkar is a different word and meaning to Ek-Ankar & Ekankar.

GODMAN - The Nature of Oneness
...Ek Onkar (the one God unmanifest) becomes Akar (the manifest) and assumes
the appellation of a Guru. He who can tell you of the Reality (impersonal) and
put you in contact with Reality (Truth eternal and unchangeable permanence),...
http://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/godman/godman_25.htm

...EK-ANKAR—The Unmanifest-Manifested, God-in-expression power, the holy Word,
the primal manifestation of Godhead by which and in which all live, move and
have their being and by which all find a way back to Absolute God. GAGGAN —
The... http://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/gloss.htm

NANAK USES IT DIFFERENTLY THAN KIRPAL & TWITCHELL DOES ....

Therefore, consistently throughout Sikhism the terminology Ik Onkar, Ek Onkar,
Ikoaʼnkār, Ek Oankaar, etc. always basically means “There is only One God”.

EKANKAR is the one oneness, The Unmanifest-Manifested, God-in-expression power,
the holy Word, the ECK, spirit,

ECK means the holy Word, the ECK, spirit, shabda, sound current, life force etc

ECKANKAR is the one oneness, "One Supreme All-inclusiveness of God"; and means
co-worker with god........ and also

The Path of Total Awareness;

Teaching of both the Light and Sound (ECK);
The Ancient Science of Soul Travel;

Eckankar is a codified system concerned with bilocation & OOBEs.

Different words used differently, and yet also similarly at times.

Any similarities between the Sikhs and Eckankar is because the Sikhs came
first and Twitchell read about them and liked what he saw. He could see the
'similarities' between the Sikh teachings, writings and others.

All powerful spiritual hierarchies are not uncommon on this planet.
The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians all knew about this long ago. allegory,
myths and story.

fwiw

[Henosis Sage]

RE "VAIRAG is also a well known term in Sikhism and Hinduism and Radhasoami teachings. "

also in SUFI teachings from Hindu Purana etc.

... There are two kinds of Hindu sages: the Vairagi and the Sant. The one is ascetic, the other is saintly. The life of the

Vairagi is very surprising, very extraordinary, and it is a great puzzle to those who meet him. One might be quite

afraid of a man who was ... The path which the Hindus follow is one of the four Yogas, and it is through Hatha Yoga,

the path of abstinence, that the Vairagi endeavors to develop his spiritual life.

Vairagi word search on Wahiduddin.net ie SUFI
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPbUNtd3UyVVN5aFE/view?usp=sharing

mmm yes.

Search KABIR on Kirpal Singh's Ruhani USA
About 458 results
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site%3Awww.ruhanisatsangusa.org%20kabir

NANAK About 427 results
https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:www.ruhanisatsangusa.org+nanak

Twitchell was an active initiate until about 1958 when he shifted to
Scientology in DC and worked at the Hubbard Academy a premier part of the Org
and as the Press Officer. He wrote articles in member newsletters and ran training courses with Rosina Mann (UK/DC) and others.

It was reported by a staffer who saw Twitchell's member file, that Hubbard
refused to see him, I think this was late 1959 (?).

Kaydee had died by then, and Twitchell travelled through Davenport Iowa for a
time in 1960 and ended up in Seattle circa xmas 1960 and he got a job at the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper for a year ... in sales and advertising
not as a journalist. (the wear a 100 different Caps story, irritated the manager)

Not sure why that matters :-)

It's very possible Ruhani were present in Seattle, and Paul hooked up with them again.
and he arranged for Gail to be Initiated when Kirpal toured again.
In Dec 1963 that happened and PT discussed the tigers fang manuscript being published and dedicated to KS his 'master' - PT sent it to Kirpal to read.
KS said it was 'incomplete' and not accurate.

We now know most of TTF was plagiarsed texts from various sources including RS.

That the wheels fell of their relationship by mid-1966 ...
but they were on good/fair terms from 1955 to 1966.

From late 1966 PT began REDACTING earlier names in his writings when re-published in booklets, discourses and in his books.

KIRPAL is removed from the rest of TFoG series 1966-68 in Orion mag.

Chronology from 1963 – 1966 - In order of appearance, each person's name or
descriptive word is listed once only.


In the earlier published writings this is who and what PT referred to from 1963 to late 1966.


June 1963 EKankar (in LTG)
July 1963 ECKankar (a spelling mistake) plus the Philosophy of the Cliff Hanger in
SP-I newspaper
Bilocation; Exteriorization, OOBE
Kabir (15th century Sant Mat Hindu Bhakti Saint & Eck Master)
Kabir & Rebazar Tarzs are descendants from the RAMA line of masters; both in 15/16th
century from “An Introduction to Eckankar” booklet. Not the Hindu 'Rama', but the Aryan
one via Europe-Persia, see Schure “The Great Initiates”.
Christian Savants
(St Francis Assisi, Padre Pio, St Anthony, Catherine of Sienna, Joan of Arc etc)
The Sufis; Hafiz (Hafez); Jalalladin Rumi (Eck Master); Shamus-i-Tabrizi (LEM Eck master)
Socrates (LEM Eck master); Blake; The Buddha; Shakespeare; Thoreau

Satguru Sudar Singh Living Eck Master Allahabad 19th to 20th century – plus also had
an 'abode' in Tibet with others, teaching on the 'inner' like RT, Fubbi, Yaubl Sacabi)
Kirpal Singh (Ruhani Satsang Master several special mentions by Paul)
Daniel Boone early Kentucky settler
E G Byron or GG Byron?; Thomas Paine (American Revolution Writer) -
Rimbaud; Lawrence of Arabia, Henry Miller
Rama the world saviour (?) & first known Eck Master or
Ramaj - not saviour but ancient Aryan brought Eckankar to India after Persia?
~4,000 B.C. - Eck Master Ramaj (same as Ramaji) - "Among the early ECK Masters was Ramaj
who came out of the dark forest of what is now Germany, and made his way East. He entered first
into Persia and established the Magi Order, centuries before the birth of Zoroaster, the great
Persian sage. [circa 5000 BC - 2000 BC ] Then he went into India and there founded the Indian
religion [Sanatana Dharma Hindusim], which is an offshoot of ECK."
[Based on: The Spiritual Notebook, by Paul Twitchell, 10th printing 1983, p. 188]
Shabda Yoga; Sar Barchan [Prose] (by Shiv Dayal Singh ; Paul's Bible 1963)
Ghandi,
The Far Country (refs a Jack London book, not Rudyard Kipling)
Rebazar Tarzs(Tarzu); Yaubl Sacabi (first as 'Socabi')
The God-Eaters [Not the same as Baird Spalding'sMasters of the Far East, but ARE SAME as Blavatsky's of Theosophy]; A spiritual Hierarchy;
Madame Blavatsky(also at Agam Des, Theosophy masters M & KH); White Brotherhood
L Ron Hubbard (as occult writer Frater X - and Scientology in LTG)
Plato; Agam Des – Inaccessbile place?
Shambulla; Seven Spiritual cities on Earth (?)
Brown Landone; Continent of Mu; Lemuria; Atlantis
China, India, Persia – ancient teachers & teachings (?)
Apollonius of Tyana
Tulsi Das of Sant Mat (1532 – 1623)
Zoroaster ancient sage for Ahura Mazda
St Anthony of Padua; Shelley the poet; Arnold Bennett
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jack London Author
Swami Premananda Kriya Yoga WC & Yogananda SRF
Sawan Singh last in the line of Beas Gurus initiated openly
Meha Baba had several masters
Bernard of England (do not know who this is suppposed to be)
Guru Nanak 16th century contemporary of Kabir, first Guru of the Sikhs
St Padre Pio seen by others as Bilocation Experiences
AUM OM (relax)
Christ (protection of; the Annointed One; inner teacher spiritual guide)
Spiritual Travelers; Magian mystics; Sufi mystics
“Three Wise Men from the East.”
Saints in the Christian church
L. Adam Beck; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Marie Corelli; George Du Maurier; Balzac; Yogananda
St Catherine of Sienna; Quaker George Fox;
the modern Soul Travel known in (Kabir) days as SHABDA YOGA
Firdusi; Omar Khayyam
Thomas Merton (Monk) 1915 – December 10, 1968)
St Paul 1st century Christian

This outlined the broad connections between many spiritual teachers, religions;
sects; and philosophies of the past; and hoiw Eckankar connects with these ideas.


After late 1966 the writings focused almost entirely on PT being "taught" by the
god-eaters spiritual travellers like RT, FQ, YS.

In late 1968 this changed to redacting RT etc as Vairagi ECK masters, and LEMs & Mahantas.
With PT being raised to the current Mahanta, the Living Eck master in Oct/Nov 1968.

Before Twitchell was only an "adept" ocidental expert on Bilocation ... but
now known as ECKANKAR: The Ancient Science of Soul Travel

These newer books (editions) set the new History and framework of Eckankar teachings.
1966 An Intro to Eckankar (redacted articles in later editions)
1967 TTF,
1968 TKTE, Understanding Eckankar, All About ECK, IMSIAF,
1969 ETKTSW, TFoG,
1970 SBTR, TFC, DWTM, SKS I,
1971 SKS II, The Spiritual Notebook (eckankar history),
1972 Herbs, The Eck Vidya,
1973 Eck dictionary

Along with the Discourses, these books lay down the essential teachings; and
all books are heavily plagiarised; often verbatim with only minor word/tense changes


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MOST content in Paul Twitchell's writings about Eckankar were drawn
from the following primary SOURCE Teachings / streams and texts

◦ Ancient Greeks and historical Gnostics
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◦ Buddhism and Tibet
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Freemasonary and Rosicrucian teachings
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◦ Hindu Gurus Kriya Yoga and Naam Bhakti
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Islam and Sufism
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◦ New Thought and Christian Mystics
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Philosophy Psychology and Science
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◦ Psycho-Spiritual OOB Misc
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Sant Mat Radhasoami Sikhs
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◦ Scientology L Ron Hubbard and Aleister Crowley
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Theosophy and similar Ascended Masters sects

See: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-M0yAR0UPhPamRmVDVFQ09BQ3M&usp=sharing


So, yeah, there it is. Twitchell's plagiarism and copying was the norm, not the exception. TY

[Henosis Sage]

On Wednesday, 6 May 2015 21:27:40 UTC+10, Henosis Sage wrote:

What Twitchell brought together in his writings was another form of Sant Mat
or Shabda Yoga, with a strong emphasis on oobes, bilocation, soul travel MO.

That's Sant Mat in the Kabir (Nanak/RT/Babaji Kriya) line of thinking.

It's also what Twitchell said it was, Shabda Yoga, Sar Bachan bible, RS,
Sawan Singh, Julian Johnson, and Kirpal Singh refs/copying.

But "Nanka Guru?" Twitchell didn't study these teachings deeply imho.

"Surat Shabd Yoga or Surat Shabda Yoga is a form of spiritual practice that
is followed in the Sant Mat and many other related spiritual traditions."
"The etymology of "Surat Shabd Yoga" presents its purpose: the "Union of the
Soul with the Essence of the Absolute Supreme Being." "

The "essence" is Spirit, or the ECK in Eckankar,

"... shabd means "word, logos" and yoga means "union."
The term "word" here means the "sound current," the "audible life Stream" or
the "Essence of the Absolute Supreme Being," that is, the dynamic force of
creative energy that was sent out, as sound vibration, from the Supreme Being.."

"Other expressions for Surat Shabda Yoga include Sehaj Yoga (an easy path
leading to Sehaj or equipoise) The Path of Light and Sound, The Path of the
Sants, The Journey of Soul, and The Yoga of the Sound Current."

Eckankar is known as the religion of the light and sound of god.

THEREFORE we could say fairly that what Eckankar is all about is that:
Surat Shabd Yoga ( incl RS/Sant Mat ) presents its purpose as the
"Union of the Soul with the "sound current," the "audible life Stream,"
the ECK, the holy spirit flowing out of the heart of 'god'.

and that's why (imho) Twitchell calls Eckankar "Co-Worker with God" ....
no difference than Kirpal Singh saying become a co-worker with the divine plan;
and be guided by the Master Power Above .... and how to obtain ABC or
Above Body Consciousness = Bilocation, Exteriorisation, Soul Travel, OOBEs.

Twitchell believed and taught (it seems to me) that using the Easy Way
technique to gain above body consciousness was a faster easier method
to achieving spiritual awareness and jivan mukti or god realization.

OK fair enough.

Then comes all Twitchell's biography changes, the name redactions, an entire hierarchy
of Eck masters and a re-writing of his earlier (mainly plagiarised) books and
manuscripts from 1967 onwards.

Which metamorphosed Eckankar from being about Bilocation to the source of
all spiritual paths and religions on the Earth since the dawn of time; and
run by the greatest Masters of all; the Vairagi ECK masters ....
a secret band of do gooders who turned Paul Twitchell into the Mahanta, the
living ECK master in January 1969.

All of whom were "literary pegs" made to speak the words of the plagiarised
materials Twitchell had selected for his writings from other Authors .....
many of whom were Sant Mat, Shabd Yoga, RS, Sufi teachers/gurus etc.

Like Soamiji Maharaj, Salig Ram, Jamail Singh, Sawan Singh, Julian Johnson and Kirpal Singh.
All of them regularly spoke to the Sant Mat (hindu), Kabir, Nanak Sikh, Sufi
lineages of living masters sat gurus etc, as did Twitchell.

The Cosmology was taken from RS and blended with Theosophy and Rosicrucian
ideas, and of course the larger spiritual hierarchy and root race ideas
from ascended masters and freemasonary ideas.

Plus a healthy dose of New Thought, Christian Mystics, Mormons, the Occult,
and Scientology.

Out of all that came Eckankar the vairagi eck masters and PT as the Mahanta.

and i think that does it for now.