The apex-point of one's Soul's journey of transformation and integration of the highest planes of consciousness, includes receiving a direct and unveiled 'intervention' from the above. This Grace-given 'intervention' is the descent of Supramental Consciousness upon the Soul - which 'is more ruthless than Love and happier than heaven' (to borrow Sri Aurobindo's words) - by which the Knowing Self directly comprehends its 'status' and the nature of the Ultimate Reality. Such a thing is possible because the spiritual form Luminescent with transcendental luster, transcends the confines of its gross and subtle material bodies. . .
This happens at the post-enlightenment stage - and includes all types of experiences: Such as:
This AM hour (in Yogic awake sleep), the Sho who moves in an ocean of Divine Bliss, stood in a very high structure looking out the window gazing lovingly, knowingly, at the sight of two magnificent White Horses in full gallop advancing towards me. . .Before my very eyes the Stallion morphed into a most handsome Beloved, and we fell into each other's arms floating within the Stream-Light of perfectly braided Bliss/LoveMelody.
What it the significance-meaning of this type of encounter?
The 'me' standing in the window of a very high structure, is the Witnessing awareness bearing witness to what Divine Bliss is/signifies. The White Horse is the symbol of the Purity and Power of the Soul in her Ultimate Freedom state. . .The transcendent Beloved yields to one who is ready to receive its Bliss-Strength.
(By whatever name) God is the Symbol-maker, and the fully awake mystic recognizes the subtlety of meaning couched within these types of experiences.
In Sri Aurobindo's words on symbols which I second: 'A symbol, as I understand it, is the form on one plane that represents a truth of another'.
It is worth remembering there are many ascending levels of spiritual bliss and the highest of all stations, is reached when the Union of the Soul with the Essence/Bliss of the Absolute Supreme, is complete. This is what God-Realization is about in the embodied sense. This is what the Ultimate Consummation of the Soul with the Essence of the Supreme Beloved is about. This is what being one with all Reality - in the visible and invisible domains of creation - is about.
The Upanishad lists ten ascending levels of bliss before one reaches the Bliss of the Brahman, "and each level a hundredfold the intensity of the proceeding level".
One who bears witness to this revelation, can describe in great detail the types of Initiations one must 'receive' before one reaches this Kosmic address. This happens at the apex-point of Soul's journey through transcendent Light and Sound - and it's not for the faint of heart.
Sri Aurobindo's words on 'transcendent Bliss': "A transcendent Bliss, unimaginable and inexpressible by the mind and speech, is the nature of the Ineffable. That broods immanent and secret in the whole universe and in everything in the universe. Its presence is described as a secret ether of the bliss of being, of which the Scripture says that, if this were not, none could for a moment breathe and live. And this spiritual bliss is here also in our hearts. (skip)
Thus universalised, personalised, raised to its intensities, made all-occupying, all-embracing, all-fulfilling, the way of love and delight gives the supreme liberation. Its highest crest is a supracosmic union. But for love complete union is mukti; liberation has to it no other sense; and it includes all kinds of mukti together, nor are they in the end, as some would have the absolute union of the divine with the human spirit, sayujya; in that reveals itself a content and mutual presence, sampya, salokya, ananda of mutual reflection, the thing that we call likeness, sadrsya, and other wonderful things too for which language has yet no name."
Source: intyoga.online.fr/bhakti.htm Synthesis of Yoga Pt : The Yoga of Divine Love.
