Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume II - Part 3
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The Supramental is something in which the basis is absolute calm 
and however intense a Divine Love there is in it it does not disturb the calm but increases its depth. Chaitanya’s experience was not that of Supermind, but of a Love
and Ananda brought from above into the vital – the response of the vital is an extreme passion and exultation of Godward love and Ananda, the result of which is
these vikāras. Chaitanya claimed this supremacy for the Radha experience because Ananda is higher than the experiences of the spiritual mind, Ananda being according to the Upanishads the supreme plane of experience. But this is a logical conclusion which cannot be accepted wholly – one must pass through the supermind to arrive to the highest Ananda and in the supermind there is a
unification and harmonisation of all the divine Powers (Knowledge, etc. as well as Love and Ananda). Different sadhanas
emphasise one aspect or another
as the highest, but it is this union of all that must be the true base
of the highest realisation and experience.
Current publication:
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. II // CWSA.- Volume 29. (≈ 22-24 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2013.- 522 p.
Other publications:
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.