Discipleship

Early, on in my spiritual quest I read the Bible completely through. Two things became apparent to me. One was that the message of Jesus was being twisted in some perverted way and that He obviously passed on a greater Wisdom to His Apostles than to the general public. What I wanted was what He gave to the Apostles not the run of the mill stuff preached in the church. I also concluded that In order to learn these lessons I would probably need to experience discipleship. So, I sought out teachers who could demonstrate things that were comparable to what Jesus did and strove to learn what discipleship was from them.

I soon found out that our culture has no foundation for what discipleship really is. It is not and never was a part of our spiritual system. This is one of the main reasons I went to India was to live in a place where this tradition still exists and is the accepted way to learn the nature of the divine and found those teachers who knew how to do it properly.

There are several things that are basic to achieving a meaningful relationship with the divine that are part of what discipleship is all about. One of these is about how to receive and give the “gifts.” I have come to call the Wisdom and the Power of the higher teachings as “gifts,” because in essence that is what they are. They are transferred or given to the student by the teacher at the appropriate time whereby he is capable of appreciating them. And they are like the more precious “gifts” anyone could ever give to another.

Although you might think that the act of giving and receiving is so very simple and basic you would be quite surprised as to the difference between how these acts are done in the common world and how they are done in the True spiritual context. There is also the need to be able to submit to the teacher through learning “Service” in order for you to even allow him to "give" the gifts. But, the teacher in the Wisdom is very careful that you come to “understanding” without losing your own integrity. The key to achieving this is to come to the realization that you are a "Child" of God. You Angel is this "Child" and you have to come to an "Awareness" of this Child within you.

In addition, the True Teachers of the Wisdom are very careful not to allow you to become dependent on them. There is a very delicate balance of trying to show someone how to attain to a state of "Service" while also moving them to a place where they are in the "Service" of the Father and the Mother. Only then will you come to know the true nature of our "reality" and your true place in this amazing universe.

If the “gifts” are given without this kind of training it is like giving a very expensive and complicated toy to a very young child. The challenge for them is getting the toy out of the box. If this is allowed, they will wave it around and play with it in a way that has nothing to do with its functionality. After a few moments they will grow tired of it and start to play with the box it came in. They will have absolutely no appreciation for what the toy can do nor any idea of how to give it to another. In the spiritual context they will not even be consciously aware they have the toy. They will try to show the teacher that they know all about it but only he can appreciate that they even have it.

The net result is that attempting to give these most precious “gifts” to one who is untrained with no discipline is a complete waste of time.