Have you experienced a spiritually purifying moment?

Question

What did it feel like?

How did it happen?

How does that feeling change (if it changes) and why do you think this happens?

Answer 1

well i had a momment, Ash Wednesday, right after Communion. cuz i had never really liked Lent, never really "gotten" it, and i was sitting in the pew praying, and all of a sudden i "got" it, i just kinda got everything i had been wondering, it was way cool. JESUS PONES!

Answer 2

Whoa....That's a very intense question. You don't experience it only once or twice. It comes to you at different points of time at varying intensities. And I have felt it many times. The first time I ever felt it was when I was 24. I was meditating in my room and all of a sudden, my body felt so light, and I my consciousness was not limited to this physical body at all. I felt was something more than this gross sheath which I thought to be real. And after that for days to come I was experiencing only bliss. All I felt was only God's love and compassion.

And there have been other moments when I visited temples and shrines where suddenly just at the look of the Idol I would feel entranced and inexplicable joy.

The answer to your third question is, the feeling changes back to worldliness because, it's not the time for us to be one with the supreme lord yet. So, your consciousness comes down from the divine back to the earthly plane only to stay and finish it's duties and the last attachments. I hope I have answered to my best ability.

And above all these experiences are just signs of spiritual evolution. A progress of the evolving spirit. If this doesn't happen, it means we are still identifying ourselves with our ego.

Answer 3

Like you go to the church every sunday, same way I go to a place where a spiritual communion of the devotees of Krishn takes place, every sunday. This place where I go to, is not a normal social place, where religious disciplines are followed, and where an attraction is given to the public in general, to participate. We have the blessings of a Guru, by whose grace we have inculcated in ourselves a spiritual feeling, which keeps us bonded together, and we miss it out, if we don't, for some reason or the other, go there on a particular sunday.

There is more to it, than that can meet the ears. But explaining that will not end in ages.

Yes, because of our worldly attachments, it does happen some times that the heart starts ruling the mind. When the heart says let's not go there today. And the mind follows suit. And we miss out.

This is natural, since we are addicted to this world's attractions. The task then is, for our hearts to tow the dictates of the mind, and not mind towing the urges of the heart. With practice this is possible.

Spiritual world is not the religious world. It is not to do anything with me being a Hindu. I, and my family benefit with this association. Even in my family it is me who is most regular.

Answer 4

Sweetie, I can't believe the cruel and pornographic CRAP that some people will post in response to a legitimate and fair question. I suppose you get thick-skinned about it after hanging around R&S for a while. But wow. I am so sorry.

To actually answer your question, YES, during an initiation ceremony being conducted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I felt the presence of the buddha emanation Tara filling my entire being with warm rays of golden light. I had never before felt such a pure surge of unconditional love in my life; it was like I was aglow, and fiery atoms of heat and intelligence and pure love were flowing in and out of me. It was an extraordinary and life-changing experience. Since then I have come to understand a very personal connection with Tara, and she is frequently the focus of my meditation. When I am mindful, I try to emulate that love and extend it to the rest of the world.

Answer 5

Yes,and the experience is just about impossible to put into words. The experience of purifying Grace has come at unexpected times but a number of times in Holy Confession when Jesus,through His priest,gave me His comfort and challenge with the Absolution,"I absolve(forgive,erase)you of your sins..." I have also had this experience during Communion and during the listening to some hymns and instrumentals. I once had this experience coupled with my simultaneous experience of my importance in God's sight and my puniness and fragility in the face of Creation and its universe once while sitting on a glacially-striated slab of granite high on a forrested mountainside during a colorful New England Fall . Once in a check out line in a nondescript supermarket, I had a " lightbulb experience" of cleansing love from God right next to the sugarless gum! Prayer experiences can happen anywhere!
Of course, all the inner experiences in the world won't equal a wad of chewed gum if I don't put Grace into effect in my life.
Feelings come and go and I don't ride on that rollercoaster of being lead completely by my or others' feelings,but i trust in Jesus' promise and power. I think that we should cultivate our feelings as well as (more importantly)our "informed,freed and disciplined" wills and intellect.
I think God gives us transcendent or mystical feelings of purification,illumination and union with Him because these experiences strengthen our faith,hope and love in the midst of disappointments,struggles and losses

Answer 6

From time to time, yes. I've felt purified. It is usually right after I've prayed about something or confessed a sin, even when I had a thought about something and God came in and did something to my heart. It feels like a "washing", that's pretty much all I can relate it to. And it happens from time to time. I'm glad of that, for I need purifying often *smile*.

It happens because God has promised that He would never leave nor forsake me, and that if I can confess my sins, He will cleanse me. So as usual, He delivers on all His promises.

Answer 7

As a child I experienced a moment while staring at a doily in the afternoon sunlight which was utterly devoid of thought. My mind was perfectly quiet. It lasted only a moment, but is among the most powerful experiences of my life.

Answer 8

When someone explained to me The Bhagavad Gita By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada. It was like fireworks. It was everything I had been searching for it was so amazing (I had goose bumps and my hairs stood on end. I became so happy and ecstatic to finally know the truth. I had so much conviction. It was truly an amazing moment and it hasn't ended. i have spirts of re-realizations and moments of great joy when chanting Gods names. That is what gives me the greatest pleasure. It happens because it is becoming in direct contact with the Absolute Supreme Personality of God head. His name, form, qualities, and Word are nondifferant from Him. It is associating directly with Him when one chants His name or hears His Word in Scripture. It is ever fresh and always increasing, eternal.

Answer 9

I don't ever remember having what I would call a spiritually purifying moment. I mean I could have but I just don't remember or I'm not realizing that's what it was. Thanks, this gives me something to think about.

gw

Answer 10

I worry, a bit, about sharing these things indiscriminately. They are precious gifts, given to us personally, and I think they should only be shared in the safe company of a few people you know and trust. I think there is a danger of their being somehow watered down otherwise.
You walk up a hill, you do see some nice views.
XX
Jon C

Answer 11

When the first rain of the season starts to shower
I run to the courtyard to take bath

Heaven is joined with Mother Earth

Sweet droplets are hitting the face
To wash away the dirt of sin forever