Is crying for God... an emotional weakness..?

Higher in Spirituality, understanding the VIRAHA and crying for it.

It is an emotional outpouring. Physiologically it happens when a connection is made between the brain and the tear duct. Some hormones are released which reduces stress. Those who say tears are a sign of weakness do not understand crying at all. The strongest champions cry when they win a championship for the first time or when they bid farewell to their sport or after they perform for the last time.

hmmm I think by both reasons people may cry. Some people will openly express themselves to god and getting emotional from their situations in life. They will also show happy when their situations got right. Some people will always cry whenever they prays to god due to their higher level of bhakti. And i think all cries are of emotional weakness and its the human nature.

People cry in two instances. When one is extremely sad and crestfallen and is not able to control oneself. The other time one cries, cherishing something after a long struggle. While the first one is definitely a response to the weakness or inability to face that misfortune. The second one is a celebration to that ecstatic joy of self-satisfaction.

The third type of crying is when one is drenched in the ocean of spiritual love. When one expresses ones heartfelt gratitude to that supreme being for allowing one to be in constant connection with him. These is not what we mean by "crying" in ordinary sense. This is love, gratitude, self-understanding, a total rediscovery of one-self. Bathed in that super-consciousness, one cries in the joy of living. For being a part of that wonderful system, where everything is controlled by the benevolent master to the logical end. One cries in self-satisfaction, self-fulfilment and one cries for the liberation of others. Through these pure flowering teardrops one worships SELF and GOD.

Sometimes people can be in an intimate place with God, feel his touch, or just be touched in an emotional way by him that they cry. Others might dance, sing, whatever. When you truely experiance the touch of God whether it's hearing his voice, feeling his presence, being convicted by the Holy Spirit you will respond in some way.

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It is not an emotional weakness..it is an emotional disturbance experienced with higher stages of spirituality.

Well, Sir in the spiritual journey a higher stage comes, when in loving devotional worship, the devotee feels extreme missing of Lord God, in this advance stage one may cry in a perpetual way. This is the state of वैराग्य or DETACHMENT.

जिन्ह पटु अंदरि बाहरि गुदड़ु ते भले संसारि ॥

They who have silk within and rags without are good in this world.

तिन्ह नेहु लगा रब सेती देखन्हे वीचारि ॥

They conceive love for God and contemplate beholding Him.

रंगि हसहि रंगि रोवहि चुप भी करि जाहि ॥

In Lord's love they laugh, in Lord's love they weep and keep silent too.

परवाह नाही किसै केरी बाझु सचे नाह ॥

They care not for anything except their True spouse.

दरि वाट उपरि खरचु मंगा जबै देइ त खाहि ॥

Sitting at the road, leading to Lord's door, they beg for food, and when He gives, they eat then.

{{{Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Raag Aasaa 473}}}

But Sir, one is doing drama, a hypocrisy show or it is real, this is best known either to so called devotee or to the supreme Lord God, since this stage can not easily be attained.

Psalm 5 (Amplified Bible)

2Hear the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You do I pray.

Psalm 57 (Amplified Bible)

2I will cry to God Most High, Who performs on my behalf and rewards me [Who brings to pass His purposes for me and surely completes them]!

Psalm 102 (Amplified Bible) 1HEAR MY prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You. Galatians 4 (Amplified Bible)

6And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [[a]Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father!

Luke 18 (Amplified Bible)

7And will not [our just] God defend and protect and avenge His elect (His chosen ones), who cry to Him day and night? Will He [a]defer them and [b]delay help on their behalf?

Joel 1 (Amplified Bible)

14Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land in the house of the Lord, your God, and cry to the Lord [in penitent pleadings].

Psalm 84 (Amplified Bible)

2My soul yearns, yes, even pines and is homesick for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out and sing for joy to the living God.

Isaiah 58 (Amplified Bible)

9Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, Here I am. If you take away from your midst yokes of oppression [wherever you find them], the finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or the godly], and every form of false, harsh, unjust, and wicked speaking,

Seems like a weakness to me. I never really liked churches that throw their hands up in the air and scream like psycho lunatics. I prefer quiet contemplation. By myself. Without anyone bothering me.

They are experiencing something very profound, and their bodies are simply expressing it. Crying is a release, so they are releasing or surrendering to God. Either that, or their faking it to appear to be surrendering to God for whatever reason...