The Narrow Way
The
Hindu scriptures compare the following of the spiritual path to walking
on a razor’s edge. This refers not only to the necessity of
following a
virtuous God-centered life, but specifically to the erect,
straight
spine of meditation, the sole path through which one ascends to the
realization
of God and union with Him.*
*Jesus similarly
spoke of the "narrow way," esoterically referring to the ascent in
meditation
of the life force and consciousness through the gateway at the base of
the spine (muladhara chakra) and the narrow passageway of the sushumna:
"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the
way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in
thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto
life,
and few there be that find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).
Paramahansa Yogananda,
in The
Bhagavad Gita: God Talks With Arjuna, p. 451
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