6 Jan 2010 —
Question
Q150: 1st Spiritual Experience?
Question 150:
“What was your first spiritual experience as a child (or young person)?”
Please reflect deeply on the matter before answering, and make your answer clear and brief (maximum 5 or 6 lines).
My first spiritual experience was with Amma. I met Amma in 1993. Amma constantly sent me signs that she knew the inner workings of my mind: my desires, my fears and my prayers seldom escaped Amma’s omniscient mind. Every prayer, every thought and action of mine passed before Amma’s divine vision and mind. Amma worked hard to strengthen my faith and increase my shraddha.
I haven’t had any spiritual experience, other than an impression that my life became better after meeting Amma, and vague hints here and there of Her clairvoyance. These and emotional attachment to Hinduism are what keep me attached to Amma.
P. S. : Incidentally, only yesterday it had struck me that there should be some forum where various people describe their spiritual experiences, and before even searching for such, I see this question here today!
Even though me and my wife were married for six years, only after meeting AMMA we were blessed with a child. This was the best spiritual experience I ever had.
My deepest spiritual experience was after meeting Amma. It happened on the very first visit itself. During and after the hug, I noticed that my hands were trembling. I felt a deep inexpressible change. I am a corporate person with experience dealing with higher authorities. But with Amma it all crumbled. The next day, I awoke very fresh. After reaching home, my 10 year old smoking habit failed to give me pleasure. I stopped within a week. From then on several spiritual experiences followed.
Since i was 9 years old, every time we were visiting that very old fortress next to my home town, i KNEW i was once living here, and i perfectly knew where “we” were sleeping, gathering and eating. I didnt know then it was about “reincarnation” till 2 years ago!
As a young child, I would invite Mother Mary, Saint-Joseph, Jesus, and angels to sleep with me through the night.
When I was 10 years old, my mother gave me a comic book on the life of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (Saint Thérèse of Lisieux). I was so inspired by her yearning and devotion and constant connection to God!
My earliest spiritual experiences were in dreams when I felt I could walk on walls or on ceiling because of a feeling of bodylessness. Or of falling in space. Once I was running with my friends and I suddenly wanted to run the fastest, I took off with such speed that the regular speedy runners were far behind me. I was so mindless and bodyless at that time. Also, when I prayed and occasionally a flower fell from one of the God’s pictures, I felt delighted that God was nodding at me at me and saying He was happy.
Fifteen years ago Amma came for Her yearly visit to the town where I was doing my graduation. My hostel was a one hour journey from the Brahmasthanam temple. I was feverish and very tired and not in a condition to stand, but the thought of waiting for one more year for having another Darshan forced me to go at any cost. I was in the darshan queue for nearly 10 hours in hot sun and was always sitting on the ground because of weakness. Finally I got my 2 seconds with Amma and Lo and Behold! I could feel a sudden surge in my spirit! I felt I am the strongest in the world!
I came to know about AMMA in the year 1992 & it was in 1995 i met AMMA first time in Vallikavu. Iam basically not a spiritually inclined person, but i have always felt the magnetic pull to meet AMMA. Maybe it will take some time for me to understand & practise spirituality in proper demeanour.
Between 4 and 7 I used to dream that every night angels would pick up the whole family and fly us to heaven. Heaven had many grown up people that looked like Jesus. There were lots of children also and lots of sweets and cakes for them. The colors of heaven were all full of light. I didn`t see my parents during the rest of the night but I wasn`t scared. I loved that dream.
I came to know about AMMA in 2006 after hearing about her and after seeing her photograph I was drawn to her, her smiling face I was not able to forget and was curious to know more. I read her literature and was dying to meet her. I met her in March 2007 in Delhi and that was the turning point of my life. She has changed me drastically. From the last two months I get her vision in my dreams and its like a reality. In December 2009 she had come to Delhi and I was not able to meet her because I didn’t know. I was very sad and continuously thinking why AMMA didn’t meet me. and Lo she was there with me and talked to me and sang a bhajan too.
Let Mother come to Singapore this year… Then i will ask her for somethings..haha…I miss her so much:)
I met our loving Amma in March 2008 and since then i always feel blessed.Just thinking about the fact that Amma is there with me everytime make me feel very spiritual and then i experience immense peace within me….Amma i love u so much for being the part of my life…..
I got peace of mind only after meeting Amma. After twenty years, my restless mind just got spaced out thanks to Amma !
My deepest spiritual experience is at Vallikavu after meeting amma. I am now on the way of PEACE. THANKS TO AMMA. Amma is always with me.
My parents took me to AMMA in 1984. My age was 3. AMMA kept me in one of her lap and my brother on the other lap and told that “One is Child for me and one child for you” to parents. My parents were thinking of leaving my brother to AMMA. Finally I was the blessed to stay with my DIVINE mother (AMMA). At that I was not feeling that as great opportunity but as day passes I am really feeling that it is a great blessing.
I first met amma in the Room at cochin. She asked what do you want? I said i want to do good research. She said you will do it, what else? I did not answer. That was the first time. But i slowly started to understand…
Amma has changed me a lot. It was not a sudden surge,but slow and gradual.More than anything, it was a gentle change,which even I took time to find out.She has wiped out traces of so many addictions from my life,and I barely recognized it until later in life. She is cleaning me by Herself, inch by inch.
My humble pranams at the lotus feet of my Mother.My 1st spiritual experience is to feel the presence of my guru and loving her….
My first spiritual experience (which I now realize was a spiritual one) was around the age 11-12 when I had a feeling on being eternally present. Frankly I did not understand or enjoy that experience. In fact I thought it to be a very lonely experience. Due to ignorance I have all my life run away from anything connected to that experience. Now later in life after meeting Amma and through Her Grace I am developing more interest in the spiritual path.
To be frank, I am not able to really differentiate my experiences as spiritual and not spiritual if everything that happens is Amma’s Will. If experiencing something which is beyond the comprehension of the five senses, mind and intellect constitutes a spiritual experience….. then I am yet to experience it (or am I experiencing it?)…
more than ten years ago, a “blue spirit” knocked at the door of my house around 3am, i opened the door and i was so afraid that i didn’t let him enter and i closed the door on him, he could come in through the door but he didn’t, he came again many times to teach me many spiritual truths, he was so beautiful…
he was my first spiritual guru…
some years after i saw a picture of Vishnu and He was exactly the same looking…so my interest with the Indian culture grew very fast, and now spend 6 month a year in Amritapuri…
this question confuses me; i consider myself a spiritual person, but what is a spriritual experience? and what is NOT a spriritual experience? isn’t everything ‘pervaded’ with ‘spirit’, with consciousness? and nothing exists without it? i would think everything is a spiritual experience, only some are more aware of it than others. anyway, as child i had a religious upbringing and for my grandmother, talking about angels was very normal, so i guess that’s more helpful, then if one grows up with no one mentioning god, or angels, or anything spiritual, and no conscious awareness about anything spiritual.. because it’s true that some people think in a very materialistic way, yet, if they live a good and loving life, they still live a spiritual life, i would think…
Around four yrs. was in the pasture on the back of the lead horse. I was laying very still and watching the horses in the herd. I became very small and felt connected to an energetic flow of the herd. Closed my eyes and there was a bright light but it was not the Sun, did not know what i had seen.
from when i was in class 8 i had been chanting lalita sahasranama and visiting Kollur Mookamkiba temple twice a year…i hadn’t seen Amma then, as our family was totally against…as i grew up ,my desire to have a spiritual Guru intensified…i joined Amritavidyalayam for pursuing my bachelors degree…when i first met Amma, i was apprehensive of what change She would do to me….the next time i visited Mookambika temple, all i saw around me was Amma…when i chanted and meditated and prostrated in front of the idol, it was Amma that flowed into me….it’s hard to make people understand what i felt, it’s a feeling of fulfilment ,beyond expression!! That moment, i knew, my journey had begun !!!
Nothing. Still waiting for that Big break.
My first spiritual experience was at the age of 6 when i had a strong feeling that this ‘I’ wasn’t this body… I started asking my mother ‘who am I’… But now that I have Amma with me, I needn’t hunt outside for answers 🙂
Even in childhood, I spent my time in internal communion with Spirit, though I wouldn’t have known to call it that at the time. It just was, and it continues to be who I am today. (Though I do remember as a child thinking, in response to vampire tales and the like, “I would never abandon God! God is more important than any threat!”)
Thank you, Amma!
In my childhood i used to go to SreeRamakrishnamission, with my pappa. I was enjoying very much the Ashram and used to ask many questions to my Father. In 1987 when i met Amma, i got all the answers to my questions. When we have a Divine darshan and have a chance to listen the sweet sound of Amma-like mahatma then there is nothing in our life to earn other than this.
THE BIRTH !! Even though i can’t remember it now, that is my first spiritual experience in this life time. And there are many births in one life time.
my first spiritual experience was when i saw amma for first time in the year 1997.i felt complete and content at that moment.
My first or utmost spiritual experience was after I met AMMA in Amritapuri 15 years back. I told her that I no longer have the desire to live. After that she showered her grace on me so much that i couldnt think of anything else but Her all the time. After two months while meditating she gave me Darshan and showed me that I am not this body but the soul, teaching me that I can’t escape my life by destroying my mere body. And it is that truth which kept me alive to type these words.
I was using drugs. A half year later, Amma came in my life to save me.
i had high fever once as a boy in my 4th or so..and i was virtually hallucinating and i saw a weird dark face trying to make me laugh and cheer-up; since i could not understand, i got scared..Now when i am 59 years old; i got the understanding that that weird dark figure was no-body else but my AMMA, trying to cheer me up…. Thanks AMMA.
Being in the woods as a child, beholding a daffodil and becoming immersed in its beauty. I knew there was something greater than me in there and in the flower, but I was made to believe my “imaginings” were fanciful and unreal. I learned to shut down this feeling and only now, at 55 am I becoming immersed in Amma’s grace and trust that those feelings were real.
When I was young (10 yrs old), I used to meditate on the Sun in the early morning without anyone telling me. After sun bath, feeling refreshed and went to school for regular studies. My teachers used to love much and applaude my success in the exams.
I even used to pray to God (Shiva, Vishnu and Devi) to help me get the top ranks. Many times, the prayers were answered.
When I was totally hurt by the modern education, I fervently prayed to God to guide me to Guru and thus met AMMA, the Divine Mother.
Now, it’s all bliss, unspeakable …