Creation seemed, from this state a vast ocean rolling aimlessly below an indifferent sky. An irreconcilable opposition is thus experienced between world and God, creation and the Creator.
Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
A Passage and Not the Last Step, pp. 286-287
This state which yogis may take for a final liberation is but a passage towards a yet greater Beyond. The sense and purpose of creation are missed out. The Force that built the worlds and the ecstasy of creation is not found there.
The World as a Shadow, p. 286
The world appears as a cinematic shadow without any substance. But how it came into being and what is its purpose remains concealed. This is what most yogis prize as nirvana. Yet it is more a reflection in the mind of a still higher state.
The Collapsing House of Mind, pp. 285-286
This is a stage through Aswapati is passing in trying to find the true remedy to transmute the world into something divine and beautiful. But what he experiences here is the world imprisoned by mental structures surrounded by a vast Nothingness.
Mental Liberation and a Free Intelligence, pp. 284-285
The Self of the Mind, this vast impersonal, indifferent state in which the mind enters, is liberating in its effect. It frees us from all religious and sectarian belief-systems as well as ideological freezes and home for rigid dogmas and fixed opinions.
The Witness Self, pp. 283-284
This is the celebrated witness state of the yogi, the base of the thinker, the seat of one withdrawn from the world and the images it builds with the help of some cosmic Mind. This is the release that comes by knowing the Self as revealed through the still mind free from the turbulence of desires.
Immobile and Indifferent: p. 283
Climbing the stairs of consciousness, passing through the range of mental worlds, Aswapati has arrived at a state of static indifferent witness. This is the state that precedes nirvana.
Opening Remarks for the Canto XIII In the Self of Mind
Aswapati has climbed the last peak of the triple world. But his quest has not ended. He seeks the door or path through which he can go beyond.
Towards the Great Summits, pp. 281-282. Closing Remarks for the Canto
This is the highest heaven of the Mental world where division begins to fade away and oneness begins to dawn upon some still greater heights.
Ideal’s Kingdom, p. 281
Aswapati moves through this plane of the Gods. It is powerful and mighty yet not the complete Truth that he is seeking. This is the plane where most yogis stop, mistaking it for the highest. But Aswapati must go further.
The Path of Tapasya, pp. 280-281
Two are the paths through which man can climb towards Godhead. One is through his secret by discovering his psychic being through love, devotion, surrender. Another is through the mind climbing up through higher and higher planes by tapasya. Human strength and will are still too weak to take up this climb. <>
Other Side of the Stair, pp. 279-280
There is another route as well that climbs from the mind towards the House of Truth – the path of arduous tapasya towards the High Beyond.
Secret Worlds of Splendour and Bliss, p. 279
A world of beauty and bliss awaits our discovery in the secret heart. This path of love climbs through the inmost heart and opens upon the supramental world passing through worlds of beauty and bliss.
The Path of Surrender and the Bud of Love, pp. 278-279
The bud of love awaits its hour to blossom in the human heart, and when that happens, life turns into a perpetual bliss.
Kingdoms of the Deathless Rose, pp. 277-278
These are worlds where Love blooms with beauty and delight as its accompaniments. One can enter this high realm through the psychic door in the heart.
The Luminous Heavens of the Mind, p. 277
Aswapati now begins his ascent to still higher luminous kingdoms at the summit of the Mind worlds. The very first steps into this realm of luminous heavens are so intoxicating that it is easy to stop and let our journey cease there.
Opening Remarks for the Canto Twelve, The Heavens of the Ideal
Aswapati now climbs further to the summits of spiritual Mind. This is the Heavens of the Ideal where one finds the different aspects of the One, each king of his own empire governed by a single Idea-force.
The Infinite Mother, p. 276. Closing Remarks for the Canto 11.
Man tries to limit the Divine according to his conceptions and experience but the Divine always exceeds all that we can ever think, conceive, understand or experience Him.