Enlightenment is not What You Think / Aurobindo

Beholding the higher Light beyond darkness we came to the divine Sun in the Godhead, to the highest Light of all.
-Rig Veda


First time this day I chanced upon  Sri Aurobindo's words from The  Life Divine, echoing what I-awakened Soul  mean exactly,  when I say that True enlightenment is not what one thinks it is . . .

"THE psychic transformation and the first stages of the spiritual transformation are well within our conception; their perfection would be the perfection, wholeness, consummated unity of a knowledge and experience which is already part of things realised, though only by small number of human beings. But the Supramental change in its process carries us into less explored regions; it initiates a vision of heights of consciousness which have indeed been glimpsed and visited, but have yet to be discovered and mapped out in their completeness. The highest of these peaks or elevated plateaus of consciousness, the supramental, lies far beyond the possibility of any satisfying mental scheme or map of it or any grasp of mental seeing and description. It would be difficult for the normal unillumined or untransformed mental conception to express or enter into something that is based on so different a consciousness with a radically different awareness of things; even if they were seen or conceived by some enlightenment or opening of vision, another language than the poor abstract counters used by by our mind would be needed to translate them into terms by which their reality could become at all sizable by us.

As the summits of human mind are beyond animal perception, so the movements of Supermind are beyond the ordinary human mental conception: it is only when we have already had experience of a higher intermediate consciousness that any term attempting to describe supramental being could convey a true meaning to our intelligence; for then, having experienced something akin to what is described, we could translate an inadequate language into a figure of what we knew.
If the mind cannot enter into the nature of Supermind, it can look towards it through these high and luminous approaches and catch some reflected impression of the Truth, the Right, the Vast which is the native kingdom of the free Spirit."
but . . .
"But even what can be said about the intermediate consciousness can be hazarded which may serve for an initial light of guidance"
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I still don't know -- from what I read so far -- if Aurobindo actually knew  about the 24/7 'Cosmic Tonglen Duty' (my energy work).

Aurobindo  presented  himself to me a couple of times in the last couple of years . . And, maybe it was he who held my hand when I wept hard the other morning (without waking up). . .felt good to feel the essence of pure love.

This day's sweet "I lovu"  / "don't worry"/ "we work together".