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The Spiritual Consciousness Brings a Vast Peace as a Foundation for the Transformation of the Nature · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The mind cannot adequately create, imagine, describe, or
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  image the experience of the descent of peace and vastness
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  that takes hold of the being and superimposes itself over the
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  activities of the mind, life and body.
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  Until one has the actual experience.
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  Therefore, nothing specific can be said about it.
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  When an individual has this experience, there is a strong
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  pressure on the body, life, mind, complex, and if it is not
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  adequately prepared to hold the energy, there is always an
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  attempt to explain it, describe it or get insight about it.
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  This is the characteristic action of the mind, trying to
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  convert it into a symbolic representation that can be
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  explained and expressed. The spiritual consciousness, as
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  it begins to actively descend into a receptive individual,
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  carries out its own development in its own way and time, and
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  brings with it the atmosphere natural to its own state.
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  The experience of the spiritual plane as it descends into the
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  human instrument is a first stage, not a consummation.
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  The peace, the connection to the vastness of the Universal
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  Presence, are powers that support the slow process of
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  change that comes about whenever a next phase of the evolution of
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  consciousness begins to manifest and insert itself into the earth
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  nature. The complete transformation
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  involves overcoming long, embedded and fixed habits of
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  body, life and mind that have developed over hundreds of
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  millions or even billions of years in the earth nature
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  uplifting and transforming them. A virtually endless patience is
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  required. The first thing the spiritual
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  consciousness provides, then, is the sense of peace and eternity
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  that removes the vital and mental frustrations that would
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  otherwise disrupt the process. Due to how slow and difficult
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  the change process actually turns out to be.
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  Triorobindo notes quote a great wave or sea of calm and the
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  constant consciousness of a vast and luminous reality.
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  This is precisely the character of the fundamental realization
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  of the Supreme Truth in its first touch on the mind and the
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  soul. One could not ask for a better
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  beginning or foundation. It is like a rock on which the
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  rest can be built. It means certainly not only a
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  presence, but the presence, and it would be a great mistake to
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  weaken the experience by any non acceptance or doubt of its
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  character. It is not necessary to define
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  it, and one ought not even to try to turn it into an image,
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  for this presence is in its nature infinite.
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  Whatever it has to manifest of itself or out of itself, it will
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  do inevitably by its own power. If there is a sustained
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  acceptance. It is quite true that it is a
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  grace sent, and the only return needed for such a grace is
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  acceptance, gratitude and to allow the power that has touched
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  the consciousness to develop what has to be developed in the
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  being by keeping oneself open to it.
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  The total transformation of the nature cannot be done in a
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  moment, It must take long and proceed through stages.
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  What is now experienced is only an initiation, a foundation for
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  the new consciousness in which that transformation will become
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  possible. The automatic spontaneity of the
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  experience ought by itself to show that it is nothing
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  constructed by the mind, will, or emotions.
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  It comes from a truth that is beyond them.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindo, Bases of
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  Yoga, Chapter 1. Calm, Peace and Equality.
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  Pages 4:00 to 5:00.