I continue to feel peaceful and can only write on peaceful topics at the moment!!! I realize the world is a house on fire. But nothing budges the stillness of the mind.
What is meant by the statement that “strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life.” (Matthew 7:14.)
I argue that it’s the same thing as is meant by the proverb, I the Lord am a jealous God.
With the divine states that I’ve known, I’ve found that the minute I stray from them, they disappear.
In popular talk, we might say that I strayed from the straight and narrow.
I can be in exquisite love and say to myself, please go to Marlene but not to Nancy. No sooner is the thought formed than love disappears.
I can be in a higher form of peace, where I feel like granite. Nothing is out with me. My mind is quiet and no issues, judgments, or resentments arise, and then I have a hostile thought, and, poof, peace is gone.
The gate is strait in that, if I perpetrate against a divine state, that state disappears. Jealous God gone. Strait gate closed. Back to everyday life on whatever dimension this is.
Strait is the gate could also be a reference to the gate of the heart, the hridayam, the heart aperture or gateway to heaven.
When the hridayam opens, as it does in fourth-chakra enlightenment and again in Ascension (a permanent and full heart opening), love flows. A love which is indescribable.
There is simply nothing on this rather sluggish dimension to compare with that river of fulfillment.
I might compare our everyday state to a balloon before it’s blown up and that state to a blown-up balloon. And what it’s blown up with is love and the divine states which are flavors of love: Peace, bliss, ecstasy, joy, gratitude, abundance, mastery, etc.
You wouldn’t be reading this unless you were one of those who will “soon” find this their native state. If you weren’t one of those, you’d have said, “Yah, sure, you betcha,” and put this down a page or so ago.
Such a love awaits us, such peace, such bliss that, as SaLuSa said many times, it will soon make us forget all the bad times. Soon, as in instantaneously. Once in the inner tsunami of love, all our cares disappear.
And, yes, some serious challenges await us before that time. But that is our destination.
