Religious feelings Happiness occurs when the nucleus accumbens (a key in the mesolimbic system of the brain) secretes dopamine. This has nothing much to do with religious feelings.
Take for instance the writings of St. Teresa of Avila studied, then you can read there already clear that the believer is aware that some emotions can mislead, and that not all value can be placed on it.
The question "Is it from God?" was taken by Theresa again and reflected. Radically to all experiences are questioned and are not made to one's own. Man himself is the experience that is different from what happened. The merger of the experience with the experience called "inflation of the ego" (transfer of the sense of identity to the transient), identification with the unreal.
who has supposedly set apart for many years with religion, would know of such fact.
include the Vedic instructions on meditation in particular, also, that the adept's feelings, which may arise, do not pay attention, because Theo practice is not there to produce good feelings - they come and go - but from the bottom of my nature, available for God to be.
clouds come and go -
is the sky.
thoughts accumulate and disappear -
is the mind.
feelings appear and fade away -
remains the heart.
love stories begin and an end -
is love.
The body is born and will soon no longer be - but life remains
.
sensations come and go -
one who perceives it, however, remains exactly the same.
universes appear and disappear -
Sri Krishna remains. (A thought to Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.33)
religious and spiritual feelings are a basic constant in the emotional life of the people. The longing for strong emotions in connection with supernatural rituals and metaphysical Hopes, are driving us a lifetime. This is good because the strong emotions inspire us to ask questions of meaning.
You have to drag into account that the emotional scale is non-specific and infinitely wide. Animist experienced a similar violent emotions when he dances with a fire ceremony to a totem pole like a pilgrim at a church in Lourdes or a Gaudiya Vaishnava Samadhi in the Nam-Bhajan. It is therefore not the content, but a side effect and if this already holds for the content, availability is one of the essentials have been lost.
So we can find the religious truth is not on our feelings leave. It even seems that spiritual feelings are not dependent primarily on the religious content, but are especially suggestive of elements. The stronger the group dynamic rituals, the exaggerated expectations of the promised salvation, the more ecstatic the alienation, the sense experiences.
disastrous is that the faithful often draw the wrong conclusion that intense feelings are a particular expression of faith and experience God's presence. Healthy spirituality provides assistance in distinguishing the two.
Spiritual feelings are regarded as premature expression of piety. More: The sensations is highly stylized, even to the measure of faith. Believers are convinced that God gives them the strong emotions as evidence of the true faith.
This is a fallacy. Sri Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita that he gives a soul the confidence to do the right thing even if it is something is completely surreal (7.21). The sovereignty of God means that he admits the right of a soul for ignorance. If one were to rely on the religious feelings, one might also hold for very advanced, though you are in a safety restraint holds.
thus lead to spiritual Feelings of many believers on thin ice, because they interpret them wrong. Negative conceptual content can cause strong feelings. One example is the neo-Nazi gatherings. This value of their intense feelings quite well as religious, is it fascism yet a substitute for religion.
It is worthwhile to assess their own religious sentiments critical.
Dear Krishna
while I make the right name. The thought of you fills the heart with a tender joy and emotion. The soul is like love at first intoxication of love, and really has her condition with that "first love" the common that she enjoys more security in the beloved of its nature, as this creature and even loves it for its own sake, and investigated.
... just here where I am now even ...... But
levels can also be in the development of my relationship to you does not skip.
But please understand me, my heart needs now at the beginning of this almost trunk-giving happiness to be fulfilled to you and overflowed because too much I depended on myself and all that flattering of the world that it is the only way out from there can be lured back to you.
has so far found to be almost exclusive to the gift favor and it drunk, so it is now experiencing, that it specifically focuses on transcendental loveliness are designed to let me experience the world of my acquaintance actually forgot until now. I turn now to refresh the religious feelings. With an amiable smile
you like this first ardor of a very unenlightened and selfish "love" look down.
you see but now lie dormant inside of me but a new willingness.
You know what you can carry on by you to me slowly that tangible happiness, those "emotional bliss" deprive again. I am still with you primarily because of the me-self-gratification gift.
only by the very selfishly motivated exercise together with you what I've given up for you in this transient world, not the previous appeal and fascination on me.
Thus, my Japanese, the faint cry for you, not as gratifying and exhilarating, it will appear to me even tedious and dry.
Sometimes I begin now to think that this "numbness" is a punishment from you, but I've always nibbled greedily at the aliens ...
But then I recognize that I was also in faithfulness to You need weaning from feeling about them, you give it to me, because it is the actual removal of this world.
Often this apparent good fortune but returns quickly back, and to me it seems as if you'd care may this ever so weak soul slip away to you again because you have your new kind of leadership is too hard.
But then the longer periods of drought and may be out for weeks, months or even longer stretch.
But I can endure because of your wonderfully wise and careful education and hope for your darshan.
Sometimes the joyful bliss shows me again, but she has already changed its character. I want to learn now, no longer purely tactile asking for me and even to ask, but I wish my rati (holy affection) to you not simply a disguised form of love to myself.
wants some point I really wonder then, that you like.
And even if you want me, then left in my "desert" in the sadhana, I would like to learn to accept it again, thank you for it and maybe even ask you to give me no more mental consolation, but you take even the once so valued gifts and fruit.
long time I just wanted to have and give nothing, kept my eyes fixed on your "gifts". I never looked up to your unspeakably charming face, which was offered to me.
You only get one hand have withdrawn so that I look up. Maybe I was a little First surprised, almost shocked, that the hand is no longer with the administration there, but deeply happy, because I can see something so indescribably much nicer and kinder .... Now I do not
look back on the hand, even if it again. I stay at your darshan.
na Dhanam na na Janam sundarim ....( Gauranga Mahaprabhu)
O mighty Lord, I seek neither wealth, nor do I desire the finest in the world, nor do I long for a large number of trailers (which I feel recognition pay-as confirmation of my ego).
I would like nothing more than to you for no reason and devotion - serving - Birth of Birth to be allowed.
