Through Sri Harold Klemp
People who find themselves new to Eckankar are occasionally shocked after they listen us discuss with cats and canines as Soul. In ECK, we do regard our pets as Soul. Why? As a result of they’re.
They’re a introduction of God—simply as indisputably as we’re. When a cat interprets, or dies, one thing leaves simply as indisputably as when a human being dies. When a child takes its first breath of existence, one thing is available in. This occurs simply as indisputably as in a kitten.
Human vainness likes to mention, “God made us and put a Soul in us,” as though you’ll possess Soul. However in Eckankar, we are saying, “We’re Soul.” We’re Soul, and thru successive lifetimes, we tackle a frame for no matter stories we’d like that point. On occasion it’s a male frame, occasionally a feminine frame.
We don’t get into transmigration the place we cross backtrack the non secular evolutionary scale to the animal or the mineral state. That’s lifetimes and lifetimes previous. Nevertheless it additionally doesn’t imply that this evolutionary scale is going immediately up—or that it is going from plant to animal to human, the place other folks can glance down at their canine or cat and say, “Neatly, you might be Soul, however I’m a better Soul as a result of I’m human. You continue to mess at the flooring.”
Some animals—I might say a perfect collection of animals—most certainly have a better state of awareness than their house owners.
What May Other people Be told from Pets?
Other people cross to paintings. They change into indignant, they cheat if they are able to, they usually indulge themselves in issues that harm each their bodily frame and different people who find themselves expensive to them. Then they arrive house, and the cat is all the time there, the canine is all the time there.
Deal with your pets proper, they usually’ll all the time love. They don’t have a look at you with the eyes of judgment, pronouncing, “You’ve were given alcohol to your breath once more.” Cats and canines gained’t do this to you. They’ll love you even though you’ve simply had Limburger cheese. They’ll most certainly need some. “Simply puppy me, and let me take a seat on your lap,” they are saying. “Be type and excellent to me.”
Cats and canines are very nonjudgmental. On this means, they’re steadily awesome to human beings.
We see any person who’s bumping the electrical fence, somewhat bit out of the rhythm of existence in step with our concept of what the rhythm of existence is, and we are saying, “This particular person is doing so-and-so. That particular person’s head is sticking up about one head taller than everyone else on this social workforce.” That’s the social awareness talking. We get very self-righteous about our critiques. We expect we’re all the time strolling round in shining garments and different persons are all the time strolling round in grimy rags. We’re particular.
Neatly, canines and cats don’t thoughts. Particularly canines. To canines, their house owners are all the time strolling round in shining garments, as a result of they’re all the time giving out meals.
—Excerpted from The Secret of Love, through Harold Klemp