The supremacy of claim which the Master has cannot be challenged or limited even by the spontaneous reverence which the disciple is bound to feel for Masters other than the one who has accepted him. All Perfect Masters are one in their consciousness and it is absurd to imagine any grades between them. Though one Master is not greater than another, the disciple must, for his own purposes, place the claim of his own Master over and above the claims of other Masters until he transcends the domain of duality and realises the unity of all life. Psychic energy would be dissipated unless there arose a supremely imperative claim among the many conflicting claims of life. Exclusive concentration upon one Master is therefore usually indispensable for the gathering up of the dispersed psychic energy of the disciple. In very rare cases, owing to special circumstances, the Masters themselves might decide to share the spiritual work in relation to a particular disciple. There are, therefore, exceptional cases of disciples who have had to affiliate themselves to two or more Masters. This is an exception rather than the rule, and where there are more Masters than one, they arrange the distribution of their work so carefully that they do not set up any conflict of claims.
-Meher Baba, Discourses, Vol.II, 57-8
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