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Why devotional experiences feel simultaneously real and questionable

I started practicing bhakti devotion and sometimes I feel overwhelming love for Krishna but other times I wonder if I'm just having an emotional reaction to beautiful music and stories.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The heart's capacity for transcendent love exists alongside the mind's need for rational verification, creating doubt about authentic spiritual experience.

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