True Teachers

All true teachers of a true art, having put aside their own superficial "bright ideas", emptying themselves to receive the teaching, are then fully supported internally by their own genuine teachers and their teachers' teachers.



Payment. The price of becoming a genuine teacher of a deep art is decades of training as a genuine student. Those who assume the position of teacher without wishing to pay that price with their own sincere effort, are imposters who mislead their students and waste their inner potential. No person can choose to be a genuine teacher. Only if you follow genuinely can the possibility arise that you may be asked to lead.



Money. A genuine teaching cannot be bought and cannot be sold. True teachers hold it in trust for those who, due to their sincere and intense efforts, are in a position to receive it. Any money paid is simply for the teacher's time and expenses. It is each teachers choice what outer price to charge, though neither excessively high nor foolishly low prices help the students attain balance in their attitude towards the teaching. Usually, genuine old students, who contribute more internally are asked less externally, while for beginners it is the opposite.



Real Teachers. There are not many real teachers around the world – maybe a few dozen past the 4th initiation, many of those hidden away from the public – the majority of them concentrated among the Sufis of the Middle East, the Yogis of India and the Himalayas, and the Sages, both Daoist and Buddhist, of Asia. Those who have passed the 3rd initiation and are progressing towards the 4th, are barely more common. Mouni Maharaj himself noted that there are fewer sages nowadays in India, than when, as a youth, he began his inner training. If you can find a true sage to train under then you are lucky. Their teachings are remarkably similar, generally beyond religious and sectarian boundaries. Without any sense of self-importance they realise all power flows through them from above. They know they are young members of the group of all people who have refined themselves in the past, a small part of a large and complex universe with apparently endless numbers of beings.

The rest of the teachers in the world fall into 2 categories. The genuine but unbalanced teachers, and the charlatans. Of the charlatans I can say little. Cunning or delusional, lacking long training under an experienced teacher, cut off from their Deep Mind, they attract students, like themselves, interested in power, prestige, money or sex. The inner cost of such a path is high, the debt being collected on the death of their body.

While understanding something, unbalanced teachers, are either narrowly entrenched in a particular outer teaching or similarly caught by an inflated sense of their own inner state – either or both factors blocking them from further inner progress. Sometimes past the 3rd initiation but with the ego appropriating much of the person’s spiritual power for itself, they are held back in a partially developed state. They do much good in the world, helping people rise towards their own level, though they build into their students the same weaknesses they themselves possess. There is such a range of these people that it is hard to group them as one. Passing the 3rd initiation, the “conditional enlightenment” spoken of by the Buddha, gives access to the 4th energy level and may or may not escape rebirth depending on individual past karma. The difference between a person recently past the 3rd initiation and someone who has been on that level for 20 years can be tremendous. However, someone achieving the 3rd initiation may rest at that point for 20 years, believing they are completely enlightened and never move on. Again, because of their different work on the Earth, different teachers can have access to widely differing sources of power.



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