Do women have leadership roles in ECK? Can a woman become an ECK Master?
Yes. Women and men serve at all levels of the Eckankar organization in clergy and leadership roles. Both women and men can become ECK Masters. The ECK teachings recognize that the true identity of each individual is Soul, which, like God Itself, has no gender. The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master (the living spiritual leader of the teachings) always serves as a male. Soul needs the atom structure of a male body in the physical world to become the spiritual leader. Every Soul who is in training for the role of the Living ECK Master in that lifetime chooses a male body. The choice is made before birth.
