Fast Facts
Adherents	50,000-500,000
Beliefs	The Divine Spirit, called "ECK."
Practices	Spiritual Exercises of ECK: mantras, meditation, and dreams. These enable Soul travel and spiritual growth.
Texts	Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad and books by Harold Klemp.

Eckankar is a new religious movement based on a 19th-century Indian tradition called Sant Mat, which centers around surat shabd yoga, "yoga of the sound current." Eckankar focuses on spritual exercises enabling practitioners to experience "the Light and Sound of God."

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