THE FAR COUNTRY

1 i- 107567Dedicated to theECKINTRODUCTION inThere comes a time the of manspiritual history with crises likewhen he must meet those whichtoday are tohimboth in Souland consciousness.devastating The concern which I have for the human racedeep and the individual has about this book Thebrought have tried toFar I down theCountry. lay patterns and farof the most esotericbreathtaking reaching known to man. The contents should settleteachings whichman in theof the faces spiritualmany problems and material climax of these times. the fromRebazar ECK theTarzs, Master,great eastern of is the in thisTibet,region moving figure book. He went a series ofthrough complete dialogues the whole works of thewith about ECKANKAR,me, ancient science of Soul Travel. He also included in the thethese discourses beyond physicalplanes the title The Farsenses. Hence Country, meaning tomanthose worlds which are invisible andgenerally his facilities.outer withonce wrote a short thestoryRudyard Kipling same Itwas amanwho had a vision of thetitle. about andworld his senses as a child,beyond physical again when a soldier on the battlefield.dying of litera-The Far is a matchlessCountry piece There are few sacred inture of divine wisdom. writings the world which can it in its andbeautytoday equal what isrevelation of the God worlds and contained thewithin them. This ofmanuscript gives ways what arethe various and onGod,reaching planesthe Itand doctrine ofECKANKAR.them, philosophy needed forcontains almost within it that iseverything the God seeker to have in his hands to find the heavenly kingdom. Whoever reads and studies The Far Country becomes an for theinspired person relationship between the theECK chela and the MAHANTA, ofECK Master is outlined. InclearlyLiving pursuit the God-Consciousness it is shown how the ofjig-saw life will fall into one even alogically place. Any piece, small about results if leftone,maybring revolutionary out of the of life for the individualECK chela.pattern As thetheme of is inGod-Realization thisdeveloped one becomes aware that there is a con-manuscript, stant revelation of results ofthe Soul Travelgreater with each into the inner worlds. Rebazar Tarzstrip never lets with the who is considered theup reader, the God but him aware ofchela, seeker, keeps always the between free willand and thetangible insight fate, of human conflicts as well as those ofunderstanding karma and non-karma patterns. It is certain that if the reader willquite spend at inall the of thisanytime he willstudy manuscript tocome know thatECK is the of all tohighest paths God. That there is no other toway gain spiritual enlightenment. Paul Twitchell 81Chapter FARTHE COUNTRY The Far is a vast world whatCountry lying beyond the human race calls the earth and whichplanet has not been either theapparently explored by or for materialistscientists politicians glory. It is a series of universeswheremagnificent spiritual the of itsthe Tuza* following disposalgoes, earthly calledin that and where sodeath,body phenomena travel in their from thismany Atma-Sarupt body earth plane. The Far has names. The GreeksCountry many or the Isles ofcalled it the thefields, Blessed,Elysian Fortunate and the Garden ofIsles,Happy Isles, the Scandinavians it theHesperides; give names, theAmerican IndiansValhalla and knew it asAsgard; and thethe Hebrews asGrounds,Happy Hunting or the Promised Land.Canaan, The Buddhists call it Nirvana and the Christians know it as Paradise or Heaven. Other havereligions various names for this afterworld where all disem- bodied entities live. wrote a of a who had aRudyard Kipling story boy ofthisFar hewould seeglimpse Country. Occasionally he Hethe vision as into manhood.progressed yearned to that Far but had noenter Country way except indeath. When from a wound receivedthrough dying battle World War he sees the vision of theI,during *Tuza the Soul inECKANKAR terminology. the soultAtma Sarup body. 9to enter.Far andknows at lasthe is ThereadyCountry and isshort was calledThe Far one ofCountrystory best.Kipling's Farwho have had a of theThose Countryglimpse with their existence on this earthare always unhappy theseUnless learn the art of Soul Travel,planet. they will commitbecome restless. Someextremelypeople in of but defeat theirsuicide it,hope reaching theyonly purpose. wellknown did a novel calledTheTom Lea, author, It was the ofa riderWonderful Country. story range searched the southwest on hiswho restlessly magnifi- for that world which exists butblack stallion,cent, couldneverbe found. have a ofThe FarMany knowledge Country,people neither fortunate toare witnessthey enoughalthough it in vision nor can travel the esotericthey through intheAtma likethosewhohave theplanes Sarupbody and to leave their bodies at will.knowledge ability RebazarThose of the Far Country, Tarzs,explorers Yaubl Nanak SudarKabir, Sacabi, Guru, Singh, Tulsi FubbiZoroaster, Buddha, Das, Shamus-i-Tabriz, and others have been the of the FarQuantz, pioneers left a whichmust be studiedCountry.They living saga admired for its adventurousand spirit. These ones have us a to livegreat given philosophy but much of it has been misused and oftenby, for individual instead of for the uni-employed gain, versal cause of mankind. One ofthe bolder who thespirits constantlyexplores Far is Rebazar the Master ofCountry Tarzs, great in the wildestECKANKAR, of theliving region near the and KashmirHimalayas Afghanistan where areborders, the Hindu Rushthey joined by 10range. He me additional of the Fargave knowledge to that which Sudar atadding hisCountry, Singh Indiaashram in hadAllahabad, me.already given After extensive of Sach Sudarexploration Khand,* me to on ownSingh granted permission proceed my worlds.thethrough spiritual It was Sudar while in theSinghthrough traveling that I met Rebazar Tarzs andSoul intensifiedbody, of the world called The Farthe study Country, during with him in thea visit abovelengthy Himalayas Darjeeling. with I came to know RebazarLater, Gail, wife,my Tarzs better. He talked several times to us. I tobegan at and meet with himleave the at hismudbody night and brick hut in the Himalayas. Rebazar Tarzs is amanwho looks tobe in his middle Yaublbut Sacabi, that hethirties, many, including say hundred old in hisis wellover five years physicalbody. six feet inHe is covers hisapproximately height, muscular 185 with a maroon colored robe,pounds walks with a stride andspringy, youthful generally wooden staff.carries a five foot, andTarzs' black hair is iscropped closely, curly not to bother him in the fierce winds from theenough mountains. His beard is coal black and trimmedicy close. His are coals of dark hisfire,eyes shining lips a as he barkswordsand his stylepurple speech clipped flesh isto he is His dark,emphasize points making. from the hot sun and winds.swarthy His hands are noticeable. are withThey square long, blunt ofhisand restless.Heusesthefingers, forefinger *Sach Khand Fifth spiritual plane. 11left hand to a His handsfrequently emphasize point. are also from theweather ofthose climes.highswarthy encased in butHis feet are sandals,large, generally the rocks and sand.he often barefooted throughgoes are as dark as walnut stain.They hutRebazar Tarzs lives alone in his mud-bricklittle, a torrential blue outona cliffabove river, roaringhigh the into the toof the acrosshigh valley plainsglaciers six hundred miles to thefeed the millions,teeming south in the vast midlands.sweltering the lieThe view is Miles across valleybreath-taking. the wild of Due north, beyondoutposts Afghanistan. the monotonous rise the offlat, plains, jagged ranges Hindu the snow white of Tirichthe Mir,Kush, tip feet above all the smallerrising 25,263 peaks. Falah, at 1900 feet are dwarfed beside it. TheSarandMonhil, mountains are dust-colored by day, indigo by night, like in aa succession of vastlayer stepslayer upon staircase that via the to the roof ofleads, Himalayas, the world. From far belowechoes the thunders of theperpetual Swat to the whoseRiver, Indus,hurrying join giant have to the march of the invader fromvalleys rung time immemorial. Three hundred and twenty-seven before Christ an that marchedyears army proudly, with the of countlessarrogance conquests, plumed, terror thehelmeted, ofstriking everywhere, Army Alexander the cameGreat, these coldthrough passes into the warm world of thesoft, south. In this lives Rebazar Tarzs. It is a stationspot way between the Earth and the Far whereplanet Country, the Tuza can find its and a to make theguide path cross-over into the world beyond. Often his on theleaving physical rude cotbody 12