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The thoughtform for the year 1975 released by the Lord of the World, Gautama Buddha, on New Year's Eve is a lodestone of the mind of God - "a multifaceted jewel focusing the flame of the mind of God, a gem that is not of this world; nor does it bear resemblance to the crystals of this plane. In the center of the jewel is that flame of the mind of God. ... This jewel is anchored in the etheric plane of the planet at the retreat at Shamballa. And the fire of God's mind focused therein will be for the quickening of the consciousness of mankind in the way of truth and the restoration of balance, of vision infusing the mind with that love that enables life to impart a gnosis of the Logos."1 The seven holy Kumaras, lords of flame from Venus, are the sponsors of mankind's mental development. Over the thousands of years of earth's history, they have come forward at certain auspicious moments to raise the energies of consciousness, to accelerate the action of the Christ mind, to polarize mankind's energies in the upper chakras. Thus the anchoring (in all who will make the call) of the jewel replica of the mind of God at the etheric level between the pineal and the pituitary glands is for the activation of the flame of the Logos to further enhance the initiations of a planet and a people on the path of hierarchy.
Just as there are many would-be chelas in the world, so there are many who could be chelas who know nothing of the path or of chelaship. There are still others who, for lack of outer contact with our representatives, walk the earth as chelas yet know not that they are as chelas nor that they have our guidance on the path. What, then, is chelaship?
Chela is a term meaning student or disciple of a religious teacher. It is derived from the Hindi cela, which is taken from the Sanskrit ceta, meaning slave. In the Eastern tradition of chelaship, recognized for thousands of years as the way of self-mastery and enlightenment, one desiring to have the mysteries of universal law imparted to him applies to the Teacher, known as the Guru, considered to be a Master (through the ages the real gurus have included both ascended and unascended Masters) to serve that Teacher until he is found worthy to receive the keys to his own inner reality.
The great yogi Milarepa endured many hardships on the path, including the unlearning of the false teachings of the dark ones who imparted to him a knowledge of the manipulation of energy. Thus he had to overcome the practice of black magic and to balance the karma of his misdeeds whereby he had wreaked vengeance upon his neighbors who had deprived him of his patrimony, first causing the death of many and then a hailstorm which destroyed their fields of barley ripe for the harvest. When he finally earned the right to be the chela of a true Master, his pride had been broken and in humility he walked the way of attainment.
In the Eastern tradition, the chela is the slave of his Master for a good reason - not for the loss of his true identity, but for the replacement of the pseudoimage with the Real Image of selfhood. The chela, by submission, day by day is weaving into consciousness the threads of the garment of his Master. The Master's garment (as the much sought-after robe of the Christ) is synonymous with the Master's consciousness.
In return for illumined obedience and self-sacrificing love, the chela receives increments of the Master's attainment - of the Master's own realization of his Real Self. Through the acceptance of the word of the Master as inviolate, the chela has imparted to him the Christ consciousness of his Master, which in turn is the means whereby the base elements of the chela's subconscious and the momentums of his untransmuted karma are melted by the fervent heat of the sacred fire which comprises the Master's consciousness.
Thus, by freely and willingly setting aside the momentums of his human consciousness, the chela discovers that these are soon replaced by his Teacher's mastery, which, when he makes it his own, serves as the magnet to magnetize his own higher consciousness and attainment.
Those who have observed this process have remarked in their ignorance that the chelas of the Ascended Master or of the unascended Masters are somehow hypnotized, or duped, or perhaps even controlled like robots. They have not understood the path of surrender. They have not perceived the path as the shortcut to that enlightenment and that freedom which they still seek in the world, knowing not that the world can never impart to them the freedom and the enlightenment of their soul's desiring.
Thus one man's bondage is another man's freedom; one man's freedom is another man's bondage. In truth all mankind are prisoners of their own karma, and all mankind are liberated through their own karma. This means that the causes which mankind have set in motion in previous embodiments produce the effects that reverberate in the world of today from the personal to the planetary level. And that which seems to be happenstance or the configurations of astrology all have but one source - past actions coming full circle according to the law of cycles.
The true Teacher teaches the chela how to come to grips with his karma - past, present, and future. He shows him how to study the law of causation in his own life and to trace undesirable conditions of the present to the core of past actions and interactions with individuals, family members, and the world at large. Thus the reactions of the past produce the ramifications of the present; and step by step the chela is taught to withdraw from the fabric of consciousness the blackened threads of unwise sowings of the past, that he might reap a more abundant harvest in the karma of the future.
To do this the chela must transcend the former state of consciousness; else he will repeat the same mistakes. To transcend that state, he must break through the paper bag of his own finite awareness - the cul-de-sac of mortal reason in which he has been floundering for centuries of incarnations. Thus when the pupil is ready for the breakthrough, the Teacher appears.
The Master Kuthumi once wrote to a would-be chela about "forcing" the Master to receive him. For, you see, by cosmic law the Ascended Masters must take on as their chelas those who move and act in conformity with the will of God on the path of self-discipline and self-immolation.
When the chela, by unflinching service, shows himself to be indeed a "slave" of the diamond-shining mind of God, refusing to bow down to other idols of lesser selfhood, he finds himself standing face to face with either an ascended or unascended Master of the Great White Brotherhood or one of our embodied representatives who will provide him with certain teachings and practical steps to attain the goal of reunion whereby the outer consciousness meshes with the inner consciousness and the soul expresses the full potential of its innate Godhood.
As is often the case, the Ascended Masters remain behind the veil, which means simply that because of a lack of surrender or a lack of development in the chela, they retain a certain anonymity and prefer to remain elusive to the outer consciousness, almost playing hide-and-seek with the chela. And this is a means of keeping the chela in hot pursuit of the Guru; for it is the striving - the intense striving - for oneness that is the mark of the overcomer.
Throughout the ages those disciples who have been willing to submit totally in the ritual that is known as the "submission unto love" have made the most rapid strides and sometimes in a single lifetime have balanced enough karma to secure the nirvanic union which we prefer to call the ascension in the light. Such a one was John the Beloved, who through love rose above the twelve and was the only disciple to attain the ascension at the close of the Galilean mission.
As you meditate upon your place upon the path, upon the circumstances of your life - what you are, what you desire to be, where you are and where you desire to be - consider that love is the fulfilling of the law of the path of chelaship. And if you would enter that path as the shortcut to self-awareness, you must be fearless in your acceptance of his word "He who seeks to save his life shall lose it; but he who loses his life for my sake shall find it."2
He who spoke these words serves today with the Master Kuthumi in the office of World Teacher. He is a Teacher who has thousands of followers - some devotees, some disciples. But in the strictest sense of the word, the chelas of Jesus Christ are few and far between. For a lack of love and for a lack of laying down one's life for one's friends, those who are the would-be chelas of the Christ, those who could be, fall short of the mark of this high calling.
From the Temple of God's Will high in the Himalayas there is the sounding of the ancient bell. It is a call to the humble the world around, to the servants of the will of God, and to the avant-garde who would carry civilization forward into a new age. Morya summons chelas of the sacred fire who would become adepts, followers who would become friends of Christ, exponents of the word of living truth, imitators of the Master, and finally the heart, head, and hand of our cosmic retinue.
We seek planetary alignment. We seek to overshadow, to become one with, to work through - yea, to pour the essence of our selfhood into hearts uplifted, the chalice of consciousness raised on high. We demand the all of those to whom we would give our all. The question is, Are you ready to exchange your lesser self for our Greater Self?
The path that offers much requires much. As you say in the world, you get what you pay for. The price is high, but then you are purchasing the ultimate reality.
I AM a Guru of many chelas and a chela of the one Guru.