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Masters and Disciples in the Modern Age

by Dr Ekkirala Krishnamacharya

 

As per Madam Blavatsky, the word Master denotes mastery over many things. Mastery over the physical body, mastery over the desire nature, mastery over the mind and thoughts and finally mastery over themselves. They are the Masters who can handle the human constitution, to make the machines of the body and the mind function in their proper manner so as to tune them to the higher intelligence in man.

The book “Masters and Disciples in the Modern Age” is like a textbook to the aspirants and disciples who want to understand the Divine Plan, the work of the Great Masters who have been helping humanity at large to go further in human evolution.

Kulapathi Book Trust, Visakhapatnam, India 2024

 

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Discipleship in the Modern Age
Lectures given in Geneva on 23rd, 24th and 25th October 1981

Brothers and sisters, I thank you all for the warm welcome you have given me this evening. Now I am expected to speak on "Discipleship in the Modern Age". Since ancient times, there has been a certain tradition of the relationships between a disciple and a Master. The relationships have changed from time to time according to the social and the economic values of those times. Therefore, we find many types of relationships between disciples and Masters when we trace the history of mankind. But the true relationship has remained the same, since time immemorial. What changes is the face value, just as the spoken language changes from country to country. But the human values remain the same in every country.

We find some economic and social differences from country to country. Sometimes we try to understand the people of other countries in a different way. But when we take a close look at the people of any country, we find that the basic nature is always the same. The values are always the same. The likes and the dislikes, the strong points and the weak points, the emotions and the cravings of humanity are always the same in every country and every nation through every century.

But there is the truth which is the stages of evolution continuously operating in working out the souls of humanity unto perfection. Owing to the functioning of this spiritual evolution, we find the humanity of a century different from the humanity of the previous centuries. This difference shows us a basic change in the very nature of humanity. We sometimes think that the humanity of the ancient days was different from the humanity of the present. Certain changes that are taking place in the present century are sometimes perceived as taking place for the first time in human creation. Sometimes we assure ourselves that such a thing has not happened in human history in the past. But this is not true, because a group of humanity takes its evolution and then a group of souls are recruited into the human kingdom from the animal kingdom. That group continues to exist on this earth as human beings for thousands of years.


Different Groups on the Globe

In the meanwhile, they are grouped in different ways by the intelligences of Nature working on this earth globe. Each group is placed in different parts of the globe. The climatic, the geological and the geographical changes create certain basic differences among the groups. Each group develops its own group-mentality which is basically different from the mentality of another group. Like this we find the origin of races and nations on this earth. These races and nations begin to expand and migrate. Due to the presence of Nature undercurrent, which is working as a group consciousness, a process takes place which is very similar to the blossoming of a flower.

There is always an activity taking place from a centre to the circumference that takes place in every heart. It reflects in every group, so that the group multiplies and the members of that group expand in various directions of the earth. This is what we will find when we study the scriptures. Let us study the Old Testament, especially the first three books. Till the end of the story of the Exodus and the settle¬ment of the various tribes of Israel, we find that there is a steady development and division of humanity. The scriptures of every nation describe such an exodus and that particular group of souls gets divided into further groups and sub-groups. Each group expands into the other group and there will be an intermingling of groups after some centuries. Then there will be a blend of mentalities and a new group is created to take birth on this earth. This is a result of the work of the intelligence of the planet earth trying to produce the various patterns and designs of human nature. Each pattern has its own strong points and each pattern works out its own weak points through generations and centuries. This is because of the two layers of conscious¬ness that are in existence.