Ordinarily what we call reality is what we can see, touch, hear, smell, taste, in other words what we can experience through the senses. Or else what we can grasp by the mind which is the sixth sense.
As we grow in consciousness, as we discover new possibilities and ranges of consciousness concealed within us, our everyday life and everyday objects assume a different meaning, and a new reality hidden behind their façade begins to reveal itself. It is only by a growth of consciousness that we can enter into these domains, encounter these truths as a living experience.
The mystics communicated this reality through stories, symbols, myths which are cryptic documents of these other orders of reality. They are a rare and unique method of preserving and revealing to the initiate hidden truths that are too sublime for our commonplace experience of life.
About Savitri | B1C3-11 Towards Unity with God (pp.31-33)