On Monday evening, I attended a puja for Shivaratri in the Vedanta Center in Boston, and for the first time in a while, I could physically feel the power of devotion (for lack of a better phrase) in the room. There were many times when I was growing up in Vidyapith that I could physically feel the spiritual environment around me; but that same feeling has been rare to find at Harvard. I’m not quite sure how to describe what I am talking about — it’s just a feeling of intensity, when you know that everyone around you is concentrating just as hard as you are on the same goal.
And while the feeling occurs for me most intensely in spiritual environments, I’ve had the same feeling on many different occasions — listening to a friend intensely practicing an instrument; studying intensely with others in the library late at night; singing as loud as I could and listening to the way my voice blended perfectly with the voices of others; sitting next to a friend and knowing that together, we could accomplish anything…These experiences give me a sense of completeness that I am somehow unable to put into words. It’s a feeling that my heart is about to overflow, that I am somehow close to being whole.
Have any of you had this experience before — this feeling of completeness, of fulfillment — especially when you are in spiritual environments? What triggers it for you?
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