When we leave the womb, we enter the Kingdom of Heaven, as in heaven on earth.
Be it Christian thought, religious, or secular spiritual teachings, our thoughts stem from translations which may be a bit less than perfect, though one thing stands out, the truth of love. We must always know that love did not originate with the books, or scriptures, which ever called have always and will always come from love and the never ending search for truth.
Where did Jesus get his teachings, truly? Yes from God, Yahweh the actual name from the Old Testament of the Bible, though how did he come to recognize the power of God within himself without any guidance? It is thought that perhaps Jesus in his travels visited the East, as in India.
Much is taken on faith, though there are some factors of life's energy which we know, though they take strict discipline and will in order to achieve. Yoga is the practice of uniting the body, mind, and spirit with God or the universal consciousness, which as far as history allows, has been around for about five thousand years, and possibly or most likely began in India.
It used to be thought of as some weird cult like practice in the US, though time has proven the benefits of the practice, and they are not all strange or anything like strange. Part of our problems with and in religion is the fact of people wanting their truth to be the only truth, which is not really too much to ask, yet there is only one truth. Truth is the love of God, period. God is love, as in also the truth. There is no love without truth. Spiritually this can be learned to be the truth, physically, emotionally, mentally, consciously, as well as unconsciously, all with the practice of Yoga, although we are all born with the knowledge, we just do not always remember.
Life is Yoga, known consciously or not, and spiritually it is within every living being. When we come out of the womb we leave the consciousness of the mother, though we never truly leave the mother spiritually, which is why we know love is the truth, along with the fact that woman knows love instinctively. Ever notice how babies move when they are very young, they are the most flexible creatures in the universe. If we could keep the flexibility from our earliest days on into adulthood we would have part of the practice down automatically, as an open body will allow the mind to be open, as in the Kingdom of Heaven. Interestingly enough a closed mind will never allow the body to open, the mind is the key, which is why it is of the utmost importance to keep it as unaltered as possible.
Many of the earliest scriptures, religious or not, have said the Kingdom of God is within you and outside of you. Today so many distractions are with us almost every moment, yet it is possible to alleviate distraction for a time each day, depending on how conscious we are, or are not. With the Kingdom of God within us and outside of us, we are already in what can be called heaven on earth. We only leave this state of being if we become enlightened to the extent of joining the Universal Consciousness, or God Consciousness, or as Christianity at times calls it self realization. In other words if we become enlightened we no longer ever live in a physical body.
Enlightenment is not easily achieved, as most of us go from one body to the next, at times repeating the same mistakes from the past, as in perfection runs from us. Yoga can help eliminate some of this imperfection, though it may take many lifetimes for most of us, though perhaps with people like Jesus and some of the other prophets and masters from the past we ought to know it is possible to achieve. Problem is it is hard. Life is hard. Easy only comes after the realization of the definition of hard. Here again is where Yoga can help. Discipline and will are the only necessities, as mentioned earlier, although truth, love, peace, joy and faith are required in order to eliminate all the outside delusional illusions which seem to incessantly drive the majority of the population.
Reality is though that it is the minority of the population that is delusional, because with today's technology, as in the media we only see a minute amount of the truth in a sea of lies, and it is those lies which hide the true Kingdom of Heaven from the minority and why they fight so stringently to avoid the truth and reality of life and the joy of Heaven on Earth.
Near is the time of truth, and the truth will set you free.