2007-09-24 15:05:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In your imagination.
2007-09-24 15:08:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Religion is a purely emotional experience. The emotions may cause physical manifestations but the engagement and manipulation of emotions is the base experience. They are attempting to teach you to attach emotions to different concepts in order for you to assimilate their moral code.
'Sin' (whatever actions the religion considers bad) invokes outrage and revulsion while 'good' behavior invokes feelings of acceptance and approval from the members of the religion and the ultimate authority figure (an all powerful creator). By using positive and negative emotional conditioning a True Believer is formed. This can be a wonderful thing if the religious leader is truly moral or it can be a tragic affair if that leader is misguided.
2007-09-24 15:23:03 · answer #2 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is experienced in the most frequent value assumed by a random variable, (aka the human mind/heart) or occurring in a sampling of a random variable (aka Peoples opinions).
2007-09-24 15:17:02 · answer #3 · answered by DrMichael 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how religion, a man-made institution, is experienced, but I can tell you that to feel the presence of the Creator, whatever name you chose to call HIM/HER, takes an open mind, an open heart and faith.
"Non-believers" are people who have not yet felt HIS/HER presence in their lives. To attempt to provide "proof" to these people seems futile. One can only provide opportunities which will allow them to experience the Divine Source.
2007-09-24 15:20:35 · answer #4 · answered by lightningelemental 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be fully experienced, religion must become a way of life.
2007-09-24 15:09:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mode?
You know we ask some questions here that don't make sense to many, but that one for sure is beyond any of those we ever asked. Lol
2007-09-24 15:09:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not into religions. I have a personal relationship with Jesus. I experience Jesus the best in silence, when I listen.
2007-09-24 15:42:26 · answer #7 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the mode of goodness.
Bhagavad gita Chapter 14 text 9 and 10
"O son of Bharata, the mode of goodness conditions one to happiness; passion conditions one to fruitive action; and ignorance, covering one's knowledge, binds one to madness."
PURPORT
A person in the mode of goodness is satisfied by his work or intellectual pursuit, just as a philosopher, scientist or educator may be engaged in a particular field of knowledge and may be satisfied in that way. A man in the mode of passion may be engaged in fruitive activity; he owns as much as he can and spends for good causes. Sometimes he tries to open hospitals, give to charity institutions, etc. These are signs of one in the mode of passion. And the mode of ignorance covers knowledge. In the mode of ignorance, whatever one does is good neither for him nor for anyone.
Bg 14.10
"Sometimes the mode of goodness becomes prominent, defeating the modes of passion and ignorance, O son of Bharata. Sometimes the mode of passion defeats goodness and ignorance, and at other times ignorance defeats goodness and passion. In this way there is always competition for supremacy."
PURPORT
When the mode of passion is prominent, the modes of goodness and ignorance are defeated. When the mode of goodness is prominent, passion and ignorance are defeated. And when the mode of ignorance is prominent, passion and goodness are defeated. This competition is always going on. Therefore, one who is actually intent on advancing in Krishna consciousness has to transcend these three modes. The prominence of some certain mode of nature is manifested in one's dealings, in his activities, in eating, etc. All this will be explained in later chapters. But if one wants, he can develop, by practice, the mode of goodness and thus defeat the modes of ignorance and passion. One can similarly develop the mode of passion and defeat goodness and ignorance. Or one can develop the mode of ignorance and defeat goodness and passion. Although there are these three modes of material nature, if one is determined he can be blessed by the mode of goodness, and by transcending the mode of goodness he can be situated in pure goodness, which is called the vasudeva state, a state in which one can understand the science of God. By the manifestation of particular activities, it can be understood in what mode of nature one is situated.
2007-09-24 15:35:39 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Reverse
2007-09-24 15:08:36 · answer #9 · answered by neil s 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Willingness ................of a broken and contrite heart.
2007-09-24 15:37:53 · answer #10 · answered by Ju ju 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋