But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find

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Dear Violet et all,

 

That is so very true for all who believe in God Almighty, whether

you are a Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jew, Sikh, Taoist, Buddhist or

anyone seeking the Divine. However, the serious problem lies in the

comprehension of Self-realization (Second Birth/Baptism of Allah).

For example how many Christians understand that this verse:

 

" Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is

the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But

small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a

few find it. (Matthew 7:13-14 NIV) "

 

is nothing but attaining Self-realization when the Kundalini rises

from the Mooladhara Chakra all the way up, pass the very constricted

and narrow Agnya Chakra, into the Kingdom of God (Sahasrara Chakra)?

How many of the religious masses at present understand what is Shri

Mataji telling them about the same here?:

 

http://www.adishakti.org/divine_gift_to_humanity/_1.mp3

 

Self-realization, Sahasrara and kundalini awakening is a very

difficult subject to understand. You can be rest assured that 99% of

humanity have little or no idea what it is all about. Why should

they even bother about it when they can just go to temples, churches

or mosques to pray? What is the big deal anyway?

 

Only by relating Self-realization to the scriptures and explaining

in greater detail has Shri Mataji been able to make us understand

why it is necessary to have Self-realization.

 

The holy scriptures confirm Self-realization is necessary to attain

the eternal Afterlife during this Blossom Time. There are many

parables in the Bible that Christians do not understand because

their priests have no knowledge of its esoteric nature, and the same

goes for other religious organizations as well. Their senses and

attention is all external i.e., the need for a church, temple,

mosque, gurdwara or synagogue to worship God. That is why Jesus says

that only a few will find and pass the Narrow Gate that the Bible

spoke about. Entering the Sahasrara through the Agnya Chakra is not

a topic organized religions can explain to the masses. Their vast

membership gives them a false security that they are on the right

path, especially for Muslims who regard the rest as non-believers

bound for hell. Little do they realize what the Qur'an says about

the Resurrection, an event that is known as the Last Judgment in the

Bible and equally misunderstood by Christians too.

 

" The average person in religious matters takes many things for

granted. He finds religious groups practicing something and he

decides what the majority does must be right and acceptable to God.

The Bible says the majority of people are going to be eternally

lost. Jesus says in Matthew 7:13-14, " Enter by the narrow gate; for

wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and

there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and

difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find

it. " So we don't want to depend on the majority to determine what is

right for us and follow them. If we do we will also end up being

lost in the eternal fires of Hell.

 

Many people never stop to ask, is it scriptural and is this what God

wants? They believe that just any kind of worship they give will be

acceptable to God. The main reason for all the religious division

that we see in the world today is man will not accept God's word as

final authority. Man is going to do it his own way. "

 

Worshipping God In Truth, www.bible.ca

 

 

" In the West, the conventions of parable were largely established by

the teachings of Christ. The New Testament records a sufficient

number of his parables, with their occasions, to show that to some

extent his disciples were chosen as his initiates and followers

because they " had ears to hear " the true meaning of his parables.

(It has already been noted that the parable can be fully understood

only by an elite, made up of those who can decipher its inner core

of truth.) " 1

 

" According to the first three Gospels, most of Jesus' miraculous

actions are to be understood as prophetic symbols of the coming of

the Kingdom, and his teaching was concerned with the right response

to the crisis of its coming. . .

 

Scholarly opinion is divided on the question as to whether Jesus

taught that the Kingdom had actually arrived during his lifetime.

Possibly, he recognized in his ministry the signs of its imminence,

but he nevertheless looked to the future for its arrival with power.

 

He may well have regarded his own death as the providential

condition of its full establishment. Nevertheless, he seems to have

expected the final consummation in a relatively short time (Mark

9:1.) Thus, Christians were perplexed when the end of the world did

not occur within a generation, as Paul, for example, expected. " 2

 

" So, according to the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus ridiculed those who

taught of the " Kingdom of God " in literal terms, as if it were a

specific place: " If those who lead you say to you, `Look, the

Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds will arrive there before you.

If they say to you, `It is in the sea,' " then, he says, the fish

will arrive before you. Instead, it is a state of self-discovery:

 

" . . . Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of

you. When you come to know yourself, then you will be known, and you

will realize that you are the sons of the living Father. But if you

will not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty, and it is you

who are that poverty. "

 

But the disciples, mistaking that " Kingdom " for a future event,

persisted in their questioning:

 

His disciples said to him, " When will . . . the new world come? " He

said to them, " What you look forward to has already come, but you do

not recognize it. " . . . His disciples said to him, " When will the

Kingdom come? " (Jesus said,) " It will not come by waiting for it. It

will not be a matter of saying `Here it is' or `There it is.'

Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth and

men do not see it. "

 

That " Kingdom, " then, symbolizes a state of transformed

consciousness.

 

Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, " These

infants being suckled, are like those who enter the Kingdom. " They

said to him, " Shall we, then, as children, enter the Kingdom? " Jesus

said to them, " When you make the two one, and when you make the

inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the

above like the below,

 

And when you make the male and the female one and the same . . .

then you will enter [the Kingdom]. "

 

Yet what the " living Jesus " of Thomas rejects as naive — the idea

that the Kingdom of Heaven is an actual event expected in history —

is the notion of the Kingdom that the synoptic gospels of the New

Testament most often attribute to Jesus as his teaching. According

to Matthew, Luke, and Mark, Jesus proclaimed the coming Kingdom of

God, when captives shall gain their freedom, when the diseased shall

recover, the oppressed shall be released, and harmony shall prevail

over the whole world. Mark says that the disciples expected the

Kingdom to come as a cataclysmic event in their own lifetime, since

Jesus had said that some of them would live to see " the Kingdom of

God come with power. " . . . All three gospels insist that the

Kingdom will come in the near future (although they also contain

many passages indicating that it is here already.) Luke makes Jesus

say explicitly " the Kingdom of God is within you. " Some gnostic

Christians, extending that type of interpretation, expected human

liberation to occur not through actual events in history, but

through internal transformation. " 3

 

" Another fragment of his Teaching indicates the locality of God's

Domain: " The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. " Now, if this is God's

dwelling, God must be there also; yet the people at the time were

not ready to openly hear that God dwells within them; so, like most

of the statements he made, this also had to be stated indirectly,

and those ready to understand it would be able to decipher it. Jesus

alluded to this necessary tactic when he spoke to his closest

disciples regarding the fact that he said one thing to the masses,

another to the select group, and another still to those closest to

him. " 4

 

Only Shri Mataji has been able to preach and clearly explain what

the parables of Christ mean, and that is why it was necessary for

the Comforter to come as promised. This is the Gospel of the Kingdom

within that must be preached to all the nations. Whether it is Self-

realization, Second Birth or the Baptism of Allah the Divine Message

of the Adi Shakti to humanity makes no difference. But small is the

gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few will

find the Kingdom of God within themselves.

 

Jai Shri Mataji,

 

 

jagbir

 

 

1. Britannica.com

2. Encyclopædia Britannica

3. Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, Random House, 1989, p. 128-29

4. www.ddi.digital.net/

 

 

, " Violet " <vtubb@b...>

wrote:

>

> Dear Jagbir et al,

>

> And are not all these important ingredients if ever there is to be

a Universal Pure Religion?

>

> Violet

>

>

> , " jagbir singh "

> <adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> " Do not care for doctrines, do not care for dogmas, or sects, or

> churches or temples; they count for little compared with the

> essence of existence in each man which is spirituality and the

> more this is developed in a man, the more powerful is he for good.

> Earn that first, acquire that and cnticise no one. Show by your

> lives that religion does not mean words or names, or sects, but

> that it means spiritual realization.

>

> Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the

> day, and even a small minority, armed with these is surely destined

> to prevail against all odds.

>

> Truth, purity and unselfishness - wherever these are present, there

> is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof.

> Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole

> universe in opposition " .

>

> Swami Vivekananda

>