3. Is being connected with the Divine just another feeling?

A reader asked – “This feeling – this feeling of being connected with the Divine. Isn't it just another feeling?”

It is different, and here’s how:

With other feelings – happiness, pride, sorrow, anger, we are caught up in the feeling. We are either reveling in the feeling, or trying to work out of it. Usually, there is some action, often incorrect action that is born out of these feelings. When we experience such feelings, our bodies are tense, and everything that we see or hear is colored by what we are feeling. We are clouded from seeing reality as it is.

By contrast, when connected with the Divine, our bodies are relaxed, our minds are quiet. We have no desire to act. We are completely alert, and see reality for what it is. We simply are, and the connection simply, is – in its quietness and beautiful absence of anything else.

Love and well wishes,
- Jyotishmatee