The Advanced Work

As seekers begin to gain insight into and realization of the key spiritual essences–the attentional principle, the spirit, and the ensouling entity–they enter the Aspirant stage of spirituality.
This stage is marked by intensive study and reading, listening to multiple viewpoints, learning meditation and prayer with many groups, and may involve taking initiation from teachers of different paths. At some point, the aspirant identifies a congruent Path and makes a commitment to it.
With further preparation, and achieving the ability to make an attunement in full consciousness with an Initiate who supervises that Path, the Aspirant becomes a Disciple.
Discipleship is an inner journey with many stages, culminating in Accepted Discipleship, whereby an individual is empowered to teach and initiate on behalf of a lineage.
Yet even this exalted station is but the first rung on a ladder that leads to the all-encompassing Mastery of an Initiate.
This new topic page will select from George A. Boyd's writing on this advanced work. Here you will learn about Accepted Discipleship, the higher reaches of the Mudrashram® path and the other Transcendental Sphere paths, choice points on the upward path, preparing for Accepted Discipleship, and the journey of transformation that leads to Mastery.
This material is more challenging and profound than many of the other articles on this site:
Aspirants may read these articles to be inspired about the higher reaches of their own potential spirituality.
Disciples may read them as a roadmap of experiences ahead of them on the path...attainable if they persevere.

Even though these heights of accepted discipleship in the Mudrashram® tradition may seem to some to be unattainable, Swami Prabhu Maharaj tells us:
"Through very intensive work under the Grace and guidance of the lineage, an individual who has a highly salutary background and extensive meditation experience can accomplish this work in seven to ten years. Even regular moderate practice with regular Light Immersion may yield this same result in 18 to 25 years." [Excepted from the article, The Form of the Disciple.
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