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SRI AUROBINDO:

His experience on the existence of one stage higher than Nirvana or Mukti

Aurobindo has entered in “Nirvikalpa Samadhi”, “That” in the sacred texts of Vedanta, or called “Nirvana” by the buddhist, “liberation”, the final stage of the mystical traditions all over the world which only a few achieve, even after having realized arduous efforts for years. But this final stage only was the beginning to have experiences long higher than it.

Aurobindo explain: “I lived on this Nirvana day and night before It starts to admite other things within or become absolute... finally It was going to dissappear into a higher Superconsciousness coming from top... The appearence of an illusory world became other one where the illusion is only a small phenomenon superficial with an immense Divine Reality behind and an immense Divine Reality above and an intense Divine Reality inside of the heart of all that initially had seemed one cinematic screening. And this was not a relapse on the prison of senses, it was not a decreasing in the supreme experience. Rather it came up as a constant intensification and expansion of the Truth... The Nirvana of my liberated consciousness turned out to be the beginning of my discovery, the first step towards the completion, neither the unique true possible achievement nor a final culmination” (Aurobindo, 1972, p.154). “The Nirvana cannot be the end of the Path with no more to explore... is the final of the inferior Path which passes by the inferior Nature and the beginning of the Superior Evolution” (Aurobindo, 1969 a, p.71).

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In relation to the physical body, Aurobindo said: “In the spiritual tradition the body has been considered as an obstacle incapable of spiritualization or transmutation and a heavy ballast which tied the soul to the earthly nature and impeded to elevate it into the spiritual plenitude in the Supreme or into the dissolution of its individual being in the Supreme. But, although this conception on the role of the body in our destiny is sufficiently adequate for a sadhana (spiritual discipline) in which alone the earth be seen as a field of ignorance and the earthly life as a preparation for a salvation retreat... is insufficient for a sadhana where be conceived a divine life on the earth and the liberation of the own earthly nature as part of the total aim for the incarnation of the spirit here. If our aim is the total transformation of the soul, the transformation of the body necessarily should form part of it. In other way is not possible a full divine life on the earth” (Aurobindo, 1952c, p. 43)

THE MOTHER:

Her experience on the Golden Body

After experiencing for the first time the Golden Body, the Mother wrote: “ There was an impression of power, of heat, of gold. Was not something flowed, but as a brightness of dust. And each one of these things -I cannot call them particles, neither fragments, neither points, unless we interpret 'point' in mathematical aspect, as a point that does not occupy any space- was like alive gold, a hot dust of gold. It is not possible to say that it was brilliant, it is not possible to say that it was dark, and it was neither constituted of light just as it is used for us to understand it. Was a multitude of minuscule points of gold, not any more not less. I would say that they touched my eyes, my face. And with a formidable power. And, at the same time, with a sensation of plenitude, the peace of all the power. Was rich, was complete. Was the most rapid movement, infinitely more rapid than any imaginable thing. And at the same time was an absolute peace, a perfect tranquility” (Satprem 1975, p. 280)