1 00:00:07,37 --> 00:00:10,86 We invite you to spend the next half hour with three year old claim that the 2 00:00:10,87 --> 00:00:16,20 Mahanta the Living ECK Master is the spiritual leader of Ecan current serial 3 00:00:16,21 --> 00:00:20,44 travels worldwide giving out the teachings of the Light and Sound of God. 4 00:00:28,29 --> 00:00:30,51 I should explain the foolish of God just 5 00:00:30,52 --> 00:00:37,26 a bit. Everyone else is foolish but us 6 00:00:38,33 --> 00:00:43,73 we're wise. Considerate kind all knowing. 7 00:00:46,46 --> 00:00:51,28 And the other guy is foolish. Not all the time. 8 00:00:55,35 --> 00:01:02,28 But often enough that we can recognize. A problem when we see it 9 00:01:04,23 --> 00:01:09,21 the foolish of God But the fact is. 10 00:01:12,89 --> 00:01:18,89 God puts those people in our path. 11 00:01:20,88 --> 00:01:24,20 Who we need to bomb shoulders with. 12 00:01:28,10 --> 00:01:35,09 The people in our life. Are those who need 13 00:01:35,10 --> 00:01:40,92 to be there. For our spiritual. Unfolding. 14 00:01:43,47 --> 00:01:50,18 And as soon as we can learn the lesson that a particular individual in 15 00:01:50,19 --> 00:01:56,85 a given time and place has to teach us and we've made the 16 00:01:56,86 --> 00:02:01,65 adjustments inside ourselves. Then we may go on to 17 00:02:01,66 --> 00:02:07,75 a new spiritual lesson so this is good because sometimes the ACAR of the Holy 18 00:02:07,76 --> 00:02:14,38 Spirit bumps us out of our grooves It says All right. 19 00:02:15,59 --> 00:02:21,94 So you got everything planned according to year very clever planning with that 20 00:02:21,95 --> 00:02:27,10 little mind of yours about the size of an ant So you have it all planned out to you 21 00:02:27,10 --> 00:02:33,76 . We smile and we say of course. And 22 00:02:33,77 --> 00:02:39,99 then the Holy Spirit shakes the dice and throws him down and says Now what she 23 00:02:40,00 --> 00:02:46,79 going to do with this. And you're caught totally off 24 00:02:46,79 --> 00:02:52,100 guard and you say with this. And then you do the best you can 25 00:02:53,58 --> 00:03:00,54 given the time that remains what it usually means is that you end 26 00:03:00,55 --> 00:03:07,18 up letting one thing goal. Maybe more than one time. 27 00:03:08,64 --> 00:03:13,41 Maybe within three minutes each minute of those three minutes you've had to let one 28 00:03:13,42 --> 00:03:17,78 thing go you find out what's really necessary 29 00:03:20,79 --> 00:03:27,21 Well that's how it is the foolish of God We are all foolish when we set 30 00:03:27,22 --> 00:03:34,05 ourselves against the divine order in the divine plan. The thing is that 31 00:03:34,06 --> 00:03:39,76 often we don't know we're doing that. God. 32 00:03:41,32 --> 00:03:48,25 And anything holy is very much removed from our daily life. And 33 00:03:48,26 --> 00:03:54,13 here after all we have to get to work you know it's twenty minutes not got to get 34 00:03:54,14 --> 00:04:00,12 to work OK and then you get there and what do you find on the freeway traffic 35 00:04:00,13 --> 00:04:06,14 specked up. So you finally get closer and closer to work and on and on then you get 36 00:04:06,15 --> 00:04:11,18 to work and just every little thing seems to be going against you that day. 37 00:04:13,11 --> 00:04:14,09 Now all life is 38 00:04:14,10 --> 00:04:20,78 a tradeoff. But nowhere in it very often is there room for God. 39 00:04:21,86 --> 00:04:27,33 And I say this is especially today because the market's up has been up well it's 40 00:04:27,34 --> 00:04:31,96 been sliding now here in the United States anyway. 41 00:04:35,13 --> 00:04:40,07 And so since maybe fifty percent of the working families have some stake in the 42 00:04:40,08 --> 00:04:46,91 stock market it's almost as if people's god has become 43 00:04:47,02 --> 00:04:52,97 Mammon not the true God but another false god. 44 00:04:54,33 --> 00:05:01,28 But again what would you expect of the foolish of God and that's how we make 45 00:05:01,29 --> 00:05:08,12 our way through life not just one life but many lifetimes studying our tolls 46 00:05:08,65 --> 00:05:13,82 bumping into the doorposts because we didn't quite aim right. 47 00:05:16,23 --> 00:05:23,11 And so what is the second card offer. I often think about this and mention it all 48 00:05:23,12 --> 00:05:29,65 too seldom. Whatever happens today whether it's 49 00:05:29,66 --> 00:05:36,21 wrong in our mind or right will happen again tomorrow not exactly the same 50 00:05:36,60 --> 00:05:43,55 but it'll rhyme. Sort of like it sort of like the right word but it's not quite 51 00:05:43,56 --> 00:05:48,87 it but yet it all works together to make something harmonious 52 00:05:52,85 --> 00:05:59,33 but what about this life as compared to last life is it any different from 53 00:05:59,34 --> 00:06:04,86 today. As today is different from yesterday or tomorrow. 54 00:06:06,71 --> 00:06:13,31 And how long will this go on how long. How long how 55 00:06:13,32 --> 00:06:17,90 long. You see we have 56 00:06:17,91 --> 00:06:23,34 a fairly good. In some of our places 57 00:06:29,72 --> 00:06:34,22 there isn't the destruction of war and the peoples of 58 00:06:34,23 --> 00:06:38,70 a sort that destroys houses and buildings and people 59 00:06:41,22 --> 00:06:47,69 on a great level. Where thousands are done in at once No it's it's 60 00:06:47,70 --> 00:06:51,02 a different society and we say well it's 61 00:06:51,03 --> 00:06:55,93 a pretty good life one life that said I might here. 62 00:06:58,21 --> 00:07:05,20 But it's not that way there are more people in the world who have 63 00:07:05,21 --> 00:07:11,07 an understanding of reincarnation and karma than do not. Now this is 64 00:07:11,08 --> 00:07:12,49 a shock to us perhaps in 65 00:07:12,50 --> 00:07:18,12 a Christian society because every thing in 66 00:07:18,13 --> 00:07:25,05 a society such as our own is that one life here and 67 00:07:25,06 --> 00:07:27,01 the rest of eternity there. 68 00:07:32,16 --> 00:07:39,14 But there are some of you who know in your heart and not just told us 69 00:07:39,15 --> 00:07:45,90 a belief in your mind that there is something more to this scheme of life. There 70 00:07:45,91 --> 00:07:46,40 must be 71 00:07:46,41 --> 00:07:53,63 a reason why some people are born poor. There 72 00:07:53,64 --> 00:07:57,61 must be a reason as one Sheila one said when she lower student 73 00:07:57,62 --> 00:08:03,75 a vegan car when he was exposed to Gandhi of India. 74 00:08:05,74 --> 00:08:12,65 He said well it can't be that anyone who is not Christian is damned 75 00:08:13,48 --> 00:08:19,95 look at this good man Gandhi he cannot be damned for all eternity simply because he 76 00:08:19,96 --> 00:08:20,53 grew up in 77 00:08:20,54 --> 00:08:27,41 a different culture would God be so unmerciful 78 00:08:28,10 --> 00:08:34,73 and so cruel. Some say yes and some say no. 79 00:08:37,82 --> 00:08:43,76 And what do you think. Well. 80 00:08:50,37 --> 00:08:57,12 The foolish of God. This is the story of 81 00:08:57,13 --> 00:09:03,77 someone all called Bennett to protect his privacy he grew up in Africa lived in 82 00:09:03,78 --> 00:09:04,33 Europe for 83 00:09:04,34 --> 00:09:11,44 a bit came to the United States when he came 84 00:09:11,45 --> 00:09:18,00 here. He was living in New York City. And he was very 85 00:09:18,01 --> 00:09:24,93 disappointed with American women. He thought they were shallow. He thought they 86 00:09:24,94 --> 00:09:28,77 lacked Well this is the right place to give 87 00:09:28,78 --> 00:09:33,32 a talk like this to the chief of Europe and of Africa. 88 00:09:35,94 --> 00:09:42,29 And he thought well the women in America were shallow. Probably because he wasn't 89 00:09:42,30 --> 00:09:48,69 getting anywhere with them. So one day 90 00:09:49,67 --> 00:09:50,83 on the street he meets 91 00:09:50,84 --> 00:09:55,81 a friend any expresses this or pinion to his friend Annie he told his friend he 92 00:09:55,82 --> 00:10:02,58 says how could anybody. Want to become friends with an American 93 00:10:02,59 --> 00:10:08,12 woman they have nothing to offer and his friend said. 94 00:10:10,42 --> 00:10:16,99 All people we meet have something to teach us if we would but 95 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:22,65 learn and so he was thinking about this for quite 96 00:10:22,66 --> 00:10:29,06 a while and he accepted it and he realized that it was soul 97 00:10:30,33 --> 00:10:36,59 that all the people around us are there to teach us something. And that often 98 00:10:37,47 --> 00:10:38,53 we come from 99 00:10:39,83 --> 00:10:46,08 a certain culture with certain trappings certain beliefs certain to booze 100 00:10:46,79 --> 00:10:53,20 and we bring our baggage with us when we go to another country. And suddenly we 101 00:10:53,21 --> 00:10:59,79 expect that everybody there should do things the way we do. And 102 00:10:59,80 --> 00:11:04,16 we the foolish of God think that's perfectly normal. 103 00:11:07,52 --> 00:11:07,69 That 104 00:11:07,70 --> 00:11:14,29 a whole country should bend and do things our way that's like an American who goes 105 00:11:14,30 --> 00:11:21,11 to France. And he expects the French waiter to speak English to him. 106 00:11:24,85 --> 00:11:26,16 I have news for him. 107 00:11:31,76 --> 00:11:35,65 If you grew up in a family with a lot of kids and you get into 108 00:11:35,66 --> 00:11:37,91 a hit nature other than 109 00:11:37,92 --> 00:11:44,52 a parent comes along and tries to separate this out and find out who's at fault you 110 00:11:44,53 --> 00:11:51,44 begin pointing fingers and you say he started it. And of course that works 111 00:11:51,45 --> 00:11:58,37 until your brother points back and he says I did not hear you started it 112 00:11:58,80 --> 00:12:05,61 and then it starts all over again well that's what happens lifetime 113 00:12:05,62 --> 00:12:12,45 after lifetime too. In this life we rob someone the wrong way they 114 00:12:12,46 --> 00:12:19,39 rob us the wrong way now it's really not important whatever rubs 115 00:12:19,40 --> 00:12:25,13 someone else wrong but what is important is what rubs me wrong. 116 00:12:26,35 --> 00:12:33,26 That's one part of karma the other part is the things were everything 117 00:12:34,22 --> 00:12:40,14 is kind harmonious smooth and good those are good things too 118 00:12:41,13 --> 00:12:47,92 that also counts. In the great ledger book and so when the 119 00:12:47,93 --> 00:12:53,66 accounting is done then after this lifetime the Lords of Karma look in the ledger 120 00:12:53,67 --> 00:13:00,45 and they say. Let's see he's going back to another lifetime because he hasn't 121 00:13:00,46 --> 00:13:06,98 learned how to get off the circle the circle of reincarnation but 122 00:13:07,93 --> 00:13:13,44 his ledger he's done pretty good this lifetime he's got some credits coming 123 00:13:14,86 --> 00:13:21,23 and soul so this individual gets born into another life. Nice family 124 00:13:22,24 --> 00:13:29,16 life of ease. All sort of good things or if he values education or if you 125 00:13:29,17 --> 00:13:35,93 value some good family he can have that but for the other person when the 126 00:13:35,94 --> 00:13:41,15 Lords of Karma look in the great ledger book at the end of that lifetime they tally 127 00:13:41,16 --> 00:13:47,82 it up and they say why this man has some debits Well then he may come 128 00:13:47,83 --> 00:13:54,09 back carrying. A big burden on his shoulders 129 00:13:56,55 --> 00:14:03,22 other people will look at him and say What an unfortunate person 130 00:14:05,07 --> 00:14:10,58 yes unfortunate it's true because what we fail to realize and do not want to 131 00:14:10,59 --> 00:14:16,60 realize because it doesn't fit our thinking is that perhaps for some spiritual 132 00:14:16,61 --> 00:14:17,27 reason 133 00:14:18,29 --> 00:14:25,11 a person is born the way he is yeah we are all born 134 00:14:25,54 --> 00:14:27,47 the way we are for 135 00:14:27,48 --> 00:14:34,33 a certain spiritual reason and some students of 136 00:14:34,34 --> 00:14:40,30 the spiritual area have noted that 137 00:14:43,00 --> 00:14:48,23 probably about ninety five percent of people are unhappy with the way they look 138 00:14:50,23 --> 00:14:57,15 but the fact is most of them have chosen pretty much whatever body form 139 00:14:57,16 --> 00:15:04,03 was available to them according to the ledger according to 140 00:15:04,45 --> 00:15:08,57 the credits and debits they had earned before they're given 141 00:15:09,12 --> 00:15:12,75 a choice they say all right you're the lucky one even though you've got 142 00:15:12,76 --> 00:15:14,53 a debit and you're Ledger you can have 143 00:15:14,54 --> 00:15:20,86 a choice of any one of five bodies spread out over several decades in several 144 00:15:20,87 --> 00:15:26,92 different cultures What do you want so you pick one 145 00:15:27,87 --> 00:15:33,37 you picked it course maybe it was in the great his choice in earth but then again. 146 00:15:34,74 --> 00:15:40,09 We are all the creatures of her own creation 147 00:15:42,45 --> 00:15:47,48 I know these ideas are shocking to some they all say that is not soul it cannot be 148 00:15:47,49 --> 00:15:50,40 soul. And on 149 00:15:50,41 --> 00:15:56,72 a purely social scale there are people who say it can't be that this 150 00:15:56,73 --> 00:15:59,37 person was born with 151 00:15:59,38 --> 00:16:06,01 a disability because of some spiritual reason or let's 152 00:16:06,02 --> 00:16:09,23 just put it another way that never enters their minds 153 00:16:13,09 --> 00:16:17,23 when we see someone who is carrying a burden of of 154 00:16:17,24 --> 00:16:23,85 a sort that most everyone isn't just remember that even the people who seem to have 155 00:16:23,86 --> 00:16:30,63 no birds at all they're carrying burdens of another sort these burdens are 156 00:16:30,64 --> 00:16:36,01 simply called karma. Cause and effect 157 00:16:38,43 --> 00:16:44,74 and where does this stuff come from. From ourselves at some point 158 00:16:45,68 --> 00:16:51,83 we can wrap it up we can be done with it and get off the wheel of 159 00:16:51,84 --> 00:16:58,73 reincarnation and karma OK And how 160 00:16:58,74 --> 00:17:05,09 is this done well somewhere along the lying meaning of the line of 161 00:17:05,10 --> 00:17:12,07 lifetimes the individual must find someone who can come up with the voice of 162 00:17:12,08 --> 00:17:18,79 God the voice of God In Act we call the Light and Sound of 163 00:17:18,80 --> 00:17:25,68 God This is the voice of God The two aspects of 164 00:17:25,69 --> 00:17:30,66 the ACAR the Holy Spirit are light and sound and there is 165 00:17:30,67 --> 00:17:36,57 a way to be hooked up with them in Ecan car it's during the second 166 00:17:36,58 --> 00:17:43,29 initiation this initiation comes after two years of study two 167 00:17:43,30 --> 00:17:50,27 years of study of the ECK discourses what this 168 00:17:50,28 --> 00:17:54,61 says is that it's 169 00:17:54,61 --> 00:17:59,06 a landmark that this soul need never return to earth again. 170 00:18:01,68 --> 00:18:08,32 For many people this is why they all say if I can just get away from this earth and 171 00:18:08,33 --> 00:18:14,81 not have to come back to it ever again I'll do whatever it takes. Of course there's 172 00:18:14,82 --> 00:18:21,41 more to the equation there are planes above the earth plane that 173 00:18:21,42 --> 00:18:27,09 still are subject to karma and reincarnation and here I'm speaking of the astral 174 00:18:27,10 --> 00:18:32,50 the causal mental and the A theory planes but they're at 175 00:18:32,51 --> 00:18:34,28 a higher level at 176 00:18:34,29 --> 00:18:40,100 a finer level than the experiences on the physical 177 00:18:41,01 --> 00:18:45,56 plane. In time 178 00:18:48,64 --> 00:18:53,87 the earth centered self centered human being will come to realize that there are 179 00:18:53,88 --> 00:18:59,87 people in the universe in the physical universe beside earth. 180 00:19:03,53 --> 00:19:09,84 Of course there have been reports of flying saucers for years and this is one 181 00:19:09,85 --> 00:19:16,57 form of life from beyond Earth. There are many different 182 00:19:16,58 --> 00:19:23,54 forms some of the people who come from another place to earth must 183 00:19:23,54 --> 00:19:30,19 use the lower vehicles of travel space ships. To 184 00:19:30,20 --> 00:19:37,17 higher spiritual beings they come here by higher means such as 185 00:19:37,21 --> 00:19:43,60 astral travel for instance or mind travel that's another way to get around for 186 00:19:43,61 --> 00:19:50,57 those who have the ability INEC and car we teach as one of 187 00:19:50,58 --> 00:19:57,29 the aspects of the teachings of the Holy Spirit Soul Travel It simply 188 00:19:57,30 --> 00:20:03,42 means the ability to travel not just on the astral plane the way astral travel 189 00:20:03,43 --> 00:20:08,47 allows astral travel lets you travel on the astral plane or anywhere below all 190 00:20:08,69 --> 00:20:14,47 meaning the physical plane then there's causal travel and there's mental travel 191 00:20:15,19 --> 00:20:20,84 usually people who are able to do in the mind travel is the other word for it 192 00:20:21,95 --> 00:20:27,76 generally do it. On the mental plane and this is the area of where. 193 00:20:32,07 --> 00:20:39,01 Calculus high math the high forms of architecture and the like are developed by 194 00:20:39,05 --> 00:20:45,32 the creative people here on earth this story is about 195 00:20:45,33 --> 00:20:51,56 a Baptist this is the story of 196 00:20:51,57 --> 00:20:57,90 James he grew grew up in the south I believe. 197 00:21:01,63 --> 00:21:02,84 His family belonged to 198 00:21:02,85 --> 00:21:09,77 a very rigid Baptist denomination now I see very rigid 199 00:21:10,20 --> 00:21:16,92 because it was but I say this not with any sort of criticism. 200 00:21:18,07 --> 00:21:24,78 Because every group will have it's more understanding 201 00:21:25,15 --> 00:21:31,84 people as well as it's very rigid people and that's because 202 00:21:32,32 --> 00:21:38,97 the people who gather under the banner of one organization or another are still 203 00:21:38,98 --> 00:21:44,50 individuals there at all levels of a of 204 00:21:44,51 --> 00:21:51,29 a consciousness of awareness and. They just gravitate to 205 00:21:51,30 --> 00:21:58,26 where they are most comfortable so this boy grew up in this family because 206 00:21:58,27 --> 00:21:58,53 he had 207 00:21:58,54 --> 00:22:05,36 a lot to learn. The only contact he had with the act was with 208 00:22:05,37 --> 00:22:07,21 Akon car was when he was 209 00:22:07,89 --> 00:22:14,37 a small boy this was maybe in the early seventy's maybe the late sixty's and it 210 00:22:14,38 --> 00:22:15,15 wasn't in 211 00:22:15,25 --> 00:22:24,49 a very favorable light one of his uncles was an activist and 212 00:22:24,50 --> 00:22:31,14 his father had no use for that man because he 213 00:22:31,15 --> 00:22:37,83 mistreated his family and so here I say to. This is not. 214 00:22:38,42 --> 00:22:44,55 A person we are proud to call an activist any more than certain people 215 00:22:44,91 --> 00:22:51,88 are the sort of person that the Baptist would like to see this is one 216 00:22:51,89 --> 00:22:58,75 of ours here put him in the spotlight you know because there are certain people who 217 00:22:58,76 --> 00:23:01,11 do not belong on 218 00:23:01,12 --> 00:23:06,72 a pedestal because of how they treat others the treat others poorly 219 00:23:08,17 --> 00:23:15,13 and so people are people instead of judging someone by his religion judging 220 00:23:15,14 --> 00:23:21,85 by his behavior judged not by his thoughts but by his 221 00:23:21,86 --> 00:23:28,70 behavior it used to be in neck and 222 00:23:28,71 --> 00:23:35,19 car that some people would come to me before they learned better and they'd say 223 00:23:35,57 --> 00:23:36,01 I had 224 00:23:36,02 --> 00:23:44,63 a dream about soul and soul they were invading my space do something I 225 00:23:44,64 --> 00:23:51,32 would just say what is that person done to you out here nothing 226 00:23:52,47 --> 00:23:58,88 don't even see him lives in hundreds of miles away well then handle it where the 227 00:23:58,88 --> 00:24:03,67 problem occurred go to the inner planes work it out there 228 00:24:09,56 --> 00:24:15,54 and not an easy shoulder to cry on if there's no reason. But if there's 229 00:24:15,55 --> 00:24:17,39 a reason I have 230 00:24:17,40 --> 00:24:25,53 a soft shoulder. So 231 00:24:25,54 --> 00:24:32,43 when the boy ask his father who had very limited exposure to I can car except 232 00:24:32,47 --> 00:24:38,51 for the brother in law the boy ask his father what his second car father said it's 233 00:24:38,52 --> 00:24:43,59 soul travel and reincarnation. End of discussion. 234 00:24:45,51 --> 00:24:49,99 Well of course it's a lot more than that it's 235 00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:56,95 a lot more than that the teachings of ECK as of any true religion are 236 00:24:56,96 --> 00:25:02,46 about love. God's love for soul. 237 00:25:08,26 --> 00:25:13,07 All the good religions teach God's love for soul 238 00:25:15,16 --> 00:25:21,14 but it boils down to how does any individual within. That religion. 239 00:25:23,44 --> 00:25:30,19 Act. Does the person act from power. Or from love. 240 00:25:31,91 --> 00:25:32,85 You see Powers got 241 00:25:32,86 --> 00:25:39,65 a whole bunch of little things in the bag like controlling others people of 242 00:25:39,66 --> 00:25:40,87 power who get into 243 00:25:40,88 --> 00:25:47,74 a mind mindset of power they like to control others they like to have 244 00:25:47,75 --> 00:25:54,33 fame they like people to notice something they also like to be 245 00:25:54,34 --> 00:26:01,16 rich because it sets them apart from the rest they also may like 246 00:26:01,17 --> 00:26:07,88 to carry their charity out in public using other people's money of 247 00:26:07,89 --> 00:26:12,31 course because they feel it makes them more of 248 00:26:12,32 --> 00:26:18,90 a real human being somebody who feels the pain of others 249 00:26:19,82 --> 00:26:23,09 is just a lie. It's just 250 00:26:23,10 --> 00:26:29,95 a self serving lie. Doesn't fool everybody else although it may 251 00:26:29,96 --> 00:26:33,44 fool most everybody else 252 00:26:37,29 --> 00:26:41,86 so those are the people of power and then there are the people of law of the act 253 00:26:41,98 --> 00:26:48,40 with kindness and charity to all they act this 254 00:26:48,41 --> 00:26:55,38 way with diplomacy of possible but if necessary their 255 00:26:55,39 --> 00:27:02,24 role they will also defend their own in other words the people 256 00:27:02,25 --> 00:27:09,24 of love. Are not. Simply Dollops but they are birds of 257 00:27:09,25 --> 00:27:15,28 the air they can also be eagles and hawks 258 00:27:17,05 --> 00:27:20,76 depends upon what the situation calls for. 259 00:27:24,22 --> 00:27:30,08 In other words they are well balanced spiritual beings made the blessings.