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Sati
Lv 6
Sati asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 7 years ago

How do you experience the Divine?

This question is asking for your personal experience of divinity, not theory and beliefs coming from scripture please. This pertains to everyone from all faith traditions and spiritual backgrounds. As such, everyone's answer is completely valid.

Thank you for taking the time to answer :)

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  • 7 years ago

    There are no words, no concepts!

    Such communion transcends all 'thought/imagination' (ego)!

    Those that can put it into words, haven't 'been Here, other than in their vain imagination/ego!

    Knowledge = experience!

    If you want to Know, find Love;

    “Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi

    True, unconditional Love is ALWAYS recognized by It's Virtues; Compassion, Empathy, Sympathy, Gratitude, Humility, Charity (charity is never taking more than your share of anything, ever!), Honesty, Happiness, Faith...

    ALWAYS!

    (Now you can tell the real thing from the cheap Chinese knock-offs of the ego! *__- )

    Love requires practice, like a fine violin!

    Practice! Practice! Practice!

    Who is unworthy of Love?!

    "If it cannot be thought with Love,

    it doesn't need to be thought!

    Don't think it!

    If it cannot be spoken with Love,

    it doesn't need to be said!

    Don't say it!

    If it cannot be done with Love,

    it doesn't need to be done!

    Don't do it!

    If the day cannot be Saved by Love,

    the day isn't worth saving,

    offer it up with Love!!"

    Wage Love! Practice Compassion!

    tat tvam asi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tat_Tvam_Asi)

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    The Divine can be experienced in natural settings as 'there is none else but Him;

    The most lasting way to experience the Divine is through loving others unconditionally. Impossible you say. Doing it alone, is impossible because you need a group of like minded people who are working towards the same goal to support you and remind you why you are doing this...to please the Divine who created you.To more fully understand this concept you need to understand reality. This video will clarify what I'm saying.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0drT_L4G8w8&list=P...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    I don't know how. But I can describe the experience in many different ways.

    Without Truth, there cannot be a foundation for anything. Truth is the foundation of everything, it always has been and always will be. Without Truth, there cannot be more than only one another.

    Experiencing the Divine is knowing more than what one knows now.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I was raised by a distant father and a mother who said "people who act like they love you just want something from you." My mom made it abundantly clear she wanted nothing from me.

    When I was fifteen a symbol (almost like a vision, but mathematical-philosophical instead of visual) came to me sitting in church. It was 0 = O = o, aka nothing/everything/any one thing are the same thing. With this came a feeling of being loved from above. Since I had no bearings to understand what loved felt like, I would describe it as a feeling of deep safety. Such security as I had never felt in my life before then.

    I walker out of the church and told anybody who would listen to me that "God loves me!" but they just thought I was crazy. I have explained the symbol to many religious folks, many scientific folks and anyone else who would listen and only a certain type of maverick mystic has any idea what I am on about. Of course it has changed my life, and given me a sense of confidence & importance.

    Source(s): There out of seven so far had any idea what you were asking.
  • Raja
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    It's a feeling created by one or more spirits. When all of your activities, talks and thoughts are divine concerned, you are possessed by that type of spirits. All spirits (good and bad) have the dominating character. They can take you to the extent of sacrifice or suicide.

    Human beings are ruled by spirits but humans must learn to control and rule the spirits. Spirits possess people according to the mental state of the human beings and keep them in the same state until they are rejected and replaced by another. This is an all time phenomena occurring in all humans. Human beings are always under the influence of spirits. Often thinking and talking about bad subjects or bad imaginations even for fun can take serious turns on one who think and talk.

    All of your activities, talks and even thoughts determine what kind of spirits you will have for your life. Generally spirits determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. All knowledge, skills, emotions, feelings, interests and everything are spirits. Even thoughts are not your own. When you want to take decision on a subject, one after another they think and you just listen and choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. A human being during his/her lifetime is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. Human beings are robots made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., and toys of the spirits for their games.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    In the beginning there was only God and he is made of magnificent energy more glorious than anyone can imagine. Everyone thinks he is an a form similar to man but he is not. And us as part of the divine are living this life in human form to learn and grow spiritually and when we are done we return to the divine source and we do maintain our individuality. I saw this in a vision and felt the presence of other souls and felt a love more wonderful than can be described in human terms. If only this could be conveyed to those who do not believe. A wonderful future awaits all who desire to return to our source of life and energy and from which all things were made. All souls are a part of him yet with a separate consciousness. All of us are a part of God and it is glorious and wonderful.

  • 7 years ago

    Gratitude. I did this small favor for my teacher today and she shared her thanks through a hug and it gave me a moment to say thank you for all she's given me over the years. She may never know what it means but that it means anything she now sees. Anyhow it was spiritual and reminded me of something someone said to me about gratitude many moons ago at a time when I heard God loud, and things have not been noisy and I have been very sad and it feels like the Spirit brushed away a tear .

  • 7 years ago

    I was 65 and when I was 23 I discovered a book Metaphysical Meditation

    by Paramahansa Yoganada. It spoke to me so clearly.

    I began teaching myself Yoga, mediation, and fasted while using this book as my only guideline to my life.

    6 months or so I was sitting at a friends home and I had this extremely bright light shining from my forehead for at least 3 to 5 mins. I was informed it was a Star. So if you want to know God get this book.

    Ommm

  • 7 years ago

    Divinity? I experience it every year around the holidays. It's very unhealthy, but so tastey. Has pecans in it sometimes.

  • 7 years ago

    He is a creator God and is in every body and every thing and in the spaces in between. Death is not the end: death is just a portal between worlds. Everybody has the right to believe as they choose so long as they do not harm people - and God honours all that is good in their religion/beliefs.

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