So much of the life of a disciple,
even when he has been admitted into an Ashram as an earned right,
remains esoteric, below the surface and almost entirely subjective.
Of this the iceberg is by far the best symbol.
His knowledge and capacities and his spiritual abilities
do not become a practical demonstration in daily life, as they should.
Esoteric knowledge is not intended to drive your spiritual life
into greater and increasing subjectivity;
the goal is not a more inward life and a training
which will make of you a true introspective and consequently a pure mystic.
Exactly the reverse is intended;
all that the disciple essentially is upon the inner planes
has to become objective;
thus his spiritual livingness becomes an everyday affair.
It is here that the dual life of discipleship starts
and at the same time demonstrates its essential unity.
The disciple becomes outwardly effective.
His Ashramic consciousness and his power to function
as a disciple or an initiate
must be blended with his transformed personality life,
until gradually “the two become one.”
In the last analysis, discipleship is the recognition by the Master
of a certain stage (elementary, at first) of union,
and then a training given and a process instituted
which create a still greater fusion.
It is here that meditation is intended to facilitate.
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