Edit-improved 2026-01-22
The final Samadhi - the result of permanent union of the Soul with the Supreme Beloved's Power, Essence, and Will, (at the apex-point of her liberation) can't be reached by a thought clawing at the Golden Chalice, because its Elixir is not created on the earth plane. Mind which is guided by the spontaneous actions of the Beloved, realizes that the actual state of Liberation is Nirvana and Full Enlightenment. That Mind which attains the Stage of Coronation into Omniscience in all its aspects and beyond aspects, is uniquely qualified to declare that Divine Grace guides the process of inner transformation. We know that only Supramental consciousness is in direct communion with the Supreme Divine.
The domain where thought dissolves, can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, by one whose Karmic destiny becomes 'ripe' for it.
The process of ascension to ever-higher domains of supramental Reality is guided by an Intelligence which is beyond the intellect's grasp.
My spiritual peer, Aurobindo, wrote: - and I second this statement with a resounding "YES!" - "The saint, the sage, the seer, the inspired man of action, the creator--these are the summits of being. Beyond him is the supramental being, the spiritual superman". . .I wrote YES! because I wrote few poems from the (still 'I-Thou') Saint level and know the difference.
Guardians of Deep Mysteries - whose Illimunation is grounded in multidimensional evolution into wholeness and transcendence - have a moral duty to obey the inner call of our vocation, because what we Know is TRUE. We Know it is TRUE, because during the Initiatory events, one sees with the eye of Spirit the Descent of Divine Light and feel in every fiber of one's being, its (transformatory) Infuence. . .What I don't want to do is to convince anyone what I share is true. I don't want to instruct others what to do/practice, because at this stage-attainment Divine Grace is in 'charge'.
One of the most blessed Soul-level events took place circa mid- 90's.
Brief description: I was alone in bed when I sensed a presence standing behind me and turned to see. . .and beheld a beautiful Woman tenderly gazing at me. I knew She was "ignored", and asked "What's your name?" . . ."Kwan Yin, do you like me?". . ."Oh yes" (telepathic communication). . .next instant She began walking towards the foot of the bed in a room filled-to-brim with swirling White Light. During this most precious Initiatory event, my (subtle) light-as-feather body floated within a stream of unimaginable Bliss-intensity. . .I heard myself moan a little. And when I woke up in this plane of life, Bhakti tears and heartfelt 'Thank You,' sealed this Grace-bestowed 'deal'.
Communal affirmation "of those who have adequately completed the injunctive and apprehensive strands," (Ken Wilber quote) is important to me:
Plotinus wrote: "You can only apprehand the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason." & "In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical."
I named Sri Aurobindo my 'primary spiritual peer', and know he would recognize precisely what this type of *Kwan Yin* Initiation signifies:
"Experience is word that covers almost all happenings in yoga (but) only when something gets settled, then it is no longer an experience but part of the siddhi."
I am uniquely qualified to say that he not only embodied that Divine Power, but was (also) in direct communion with the Supreme Divine. He passed through penance to the inevitable next level of human evolution - to the Supramental plane above the mind. . .Fully Enlightened being who transcended every earthly power office to become one with the very source of all Power, Aurobindo named 'the gnostic being.' The Life Divine has a chapter on Gnostic Being: The following statement resonates with me: "The gnostic being will appear as a sign of an evolution from the consciousness of ignorance into the consciousness of Sachichidananda."
I had a couple of Soul-level encounters with him at a time cyber bullies took turn to gaslight me, and ready to stop writing altogether. On one of those occasions I became aware of a Presence next to me: he wore white and heard him say (telepathic communication) "have courage, keep going". Another time he uttered: "I am with you, we are working together." So I kept going even though the going was rough.
It was rough, but I knew I was 'in good hands.'
I knew I was 'in good hands', because when an Angelic presence handed me a Gold Lamp, She uttered: "You have nothing to worry about."
* BTW Aurobindo wrote he was 'visited' by Vivekanada for a period of 15 days to give him teaching on Supermind.*
I felt energized after seeing Aurobindo's statement:
"It is not personal greateness that I am seeking to bring down the Supermind. I care nothing for greatness or littleness in the human sense. . .If human reason regards me as a fool for trying what Krishna did not try, I do not in the least care. . .It is a question between the Divine and myself - whether it is the Divine Will, or not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open the way for its descent or at least make it more possible or not. Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall upon me if it will for my presumptions - I go till I conquer or perish."
The Rig Veda confirms this for us:
"By the Truth they hold Truth that holds all, in the power of the sacrifice in the supreme other."
Aurobindo's epic poem Savitri - Canto Four the Vision and the Boon - describes one of his (my words) 'drinking deeply from the well of All-Knowing, Elixir of Immortality', Initiations:
"Then suddenly there rose a sacred stir.
Amid the lifeless silence of the Void
In a solitude and an immensity
A sound came quivering like a loved footfall
Heard in the listening spaces of the soul:
A touch perturbed his fibers with delight.
An Influence had approached the mortal range,
A boundless Heart was near his longing heart,
A mystic Form enveloped his earthly shape
All at her contact broke from silence seal;
Spirit and body thrilled identified,
Linked in the grasp of an unspoken joy;
Mind, members, life were merged in ecstasy.
Intoxicated as with nectarous rain
His nature's passioning stretches flowed to her,
Flashing with lightnings, mad with luminous wine.
All was a limitless sea that heaved to the moon.
A divinising stream possessed his veins,
Each nerve became a burning thread of joy:
Tissue and flesh partook beatitude.
Alight, the dun unplumbed subconscient caves
Thrilled with the prescience of her longed-for thread
And filled with flickering crests and praying tongues.
Even lost in slumber, mute, inanimate
His very body answered to her power.
The One he worshipped was within him now:
Flame-pure, ethereal-tressed, a mighty Face
Appeared and lips moved by immortal words.
Aurobindo's words In The Life Divine, ring true to me:
"Everyone whose psychic being calls him to the spiritual path has a capacity for that path and can arrive at the goal if or as soon as he develops a single-pointed will towards that alone." + "The solution is certainly Divine Grace - it comes of itself intervening suddenly or with an increacing force when all is ready." +
"Experiences one's own or others' if one comes to know them, should not be talked about or made a matter of gossip. It is only if there can be some benefit or profit to other and even then if they are experiences of the past that one can speak of them."
In Gopi Krishna's words (on same theme) from book titled: The Real Nature of Mystical Experience: "All the great mystics who have written on the subject have given their own symptoms openly and plainly. That is the tradition. And from their descriptions, one can compare one's own condition."
In closing - I want to remind the reader what I share in this (particular) essay, is just a sliver of the BIG picture - something taken out of context and in need of its 'companion' blogs, such as: The River of Light Revisited, Path Ordained by God, Higher Faculties See and Hear for You, Seamless Robe of Light, etc., to get a deeper sense of what 'happens' on this (final) path without a map.
