The seven holy Kumara's, the gentlemen of the flame of Venus, are the sponsors of humanity's mental development. During the thousands of years of Earth's history, they have emerged at certain auspicious times to raise the energies of consciousness, to accelerate the action of the Christ spirit, to polarize the energies of humanity in the upper chakras.
Just as there are many so-called chelas are in the world, there are also many who are chelas may be those who have nothing of the path or of chelaschap know. There are still others who, in the absence of outward contact with our representatives, see the earth as chelas walk, yet do not know that they are chelas are nor that they have our guidance on the path. What is chelaschap then?
Chela is a term meaning student or disciple of a religious teacher. It is derived from the Hindi ceta, which is derived from the Sanskrit ceta, which means slave. In the Eastern tradition of chelaschap, which for thousands of years has been recognized as the way of selfmastery and enlightenment, applies someone who wants the mysteries of universal law to be bestowed upon him, applicable to the teacher, known as the guru, who is considered a master ( over the centuries, true gurus include both ascended if notascended 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 unlearning the false teachings of the dark ones who gave him knowledge of the manipulation of energy. Thus, he had to overcome the practice of black magic and the karma of his misdeeds balancerand, in which he had retaliated against his neighbors who had given him his paternal inheritance hadn robbed, honorst causing the death of many and then a hailstorm that destroyed their fields of barley ripe for harvest. When he finally earned the right to harvest the chela of being a true master, his pride was gebroken and walked in humility the way to achievement.
In the Eastern tradition, the chela for good reason the slave of his master - not for the loss of his true identity, but for the replacement of the pseudo-image with the True Image from identity. The chela weaving, through submission, day by day from the wires of the robe Of its master in consciousness. The robe of the master (as the much-needed robe of the (Christ) is synonymous with the consciousness of the master.
In exchange for enlightened obedience and self-sacrificing love, the chela parts of the achievement of the master - of the master's own realization of his True Zeleven. By accepting the word of the master as inviolate, the chela himyourself given the Christ consciousness of his master, which in turn is the means by which the basic elements of the subconscious of the chela and the momentums of his non-transmuted karma are melted by the fiery heat of the sacred fire that encompasses the master's consciousness. Thus, by freely and willingly transforming the momentums of his human consciousness aside, discovers the chela That these will soon be replaced by the mastery of his teacher, who, when he dat own, serves as the magnet to magnetize his own higher consciousness and attainment.
De those who have observed this process have noted in their ignorance that the chelas of the ascended master or from the nonascended masters somehow hypnotized, or tricked or perhaps even controlled like robots. They have not understood the path of surrender. They have not seen the path as the shortcut to that enlightenment and that freedom they are still looking for in the world, not knowing That the world can never give them the freedom and relief of their soul's desire. The slavery of one man is thus the freedom of another man; the freedom of one is the slavery of another.
From; The Chela and the Path, page. 18-20