4th. Ray Quality–Discipline.
When you first think about the need to improve your spiritual life, it is hard to know where to start.
You may look to an outer person, or spiritual organization or teaching to point you in the right direction.
The purpose of any religion or spiritual teaching should be:-
- to show you how to make contact with the Kingdom of God within you;
- to enable you to follow a systematic path which will eventually enable you to be a self-sufficient spiritual person.
So at first you need the discipline of the outer path.
The very first step on the spiritual path will be to deal with any unforgiveness in your heart . For you cannot make any progress until you reach the point where you can forgive everyone unconditionally , no matter what they have said or done to you.
An outer teaching or outer spiritual organization can only take you so far on the spiritual path. At some point you must be willing to go beyond the outer and be willing to receive teaching and direction from within.
You can do this by taking responsibility for your own spiritual life and by going within and establishing an inner connection to your Higher Self.
You need to follow the path of discipleship which is a path of self-discipline where you learn to use your energies correctly.
