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Speaking About One’s Spiritual Experiences · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  An individual has a peak spiritual experience or
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  something unusual takes place in his inner life, about which he
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  has no prior knowledge or understanding this creates an
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  Impulse to speak of the experience to other people.
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  There can be a number of motivations for talking about an
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  inner experience with others. In some cases, there is a
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  genuine confusion and an attempt to understand what happened.
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  In other cases, the vital ego, latches onto the experience and
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  uses it to try to increase one status and recognition making it
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  seem like the individual is advanced in spirituality.
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  In, yet other cases, there is an attempt to gain followers, or
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  some form of control, or benefit from being a leader in the
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  spiritual seeking. Speaking of a spiritual
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  experience, to someone who has no basis in knowledge, Is
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  generally not helpful in resolving any confusion
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  involved, either there is a lack of understanding or there may
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  actually be explanations. Given that undermine the faith
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  and benefit of the experience in the inner life.
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  At the same time, converting a spiritual experience into a
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  mental formation. That can be expressed to some
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  degree and words uses the energy.
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  That was part of the experience, not to solidify and fill out
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  that experience. But to dissipate it through the
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  communication process. For those seeking status or some
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  external benefit by describing the experience, the situation
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  can actually be worse. The focus on the external
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  benefit and the ego gratification pulls the focus
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  away from the inner life and Spiritual Development, the
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  reinforcement of the ego acts as an obstacle to further progress.
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  There are situations where it can be helpful to describe an
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  experience, a spiritual dream or an inner event.
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  Particularly when the individual has a guide or Guru who is
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  knowledgeable and can Aid the seeker and understanding and
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  supporting the spiritual experience and its significance
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  SRI aurobindo observes quote on the whole you are right useless
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  conversation, which lowers the Consciousness or brings back.
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  Some of a past Consciousness is better, avoided talking about.
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  Sadhna, also comes under the category when it is, merely
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  mental discussion of a superficial kind.
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  The light left you because you spoke of it to someone who was
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  not an adhikari, it is safe as not to speak of these
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  experiences except to a guru or to one who can help you the
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  passing away of an experience. As soon as it is spoken is a
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  frequent happening and for that reason, many Yogi's make it a
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  rule, never to speak of what happens within them.
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  Unless it is a thing of the past or a settled realization, that
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  nothing can take away. A settled permanent realization
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  abides, but these were rather things that come to make
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  possible an opening in the Consciousness to something more
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  complete to prepare it for realization and quote. reference
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  SRI aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI, aurobindo teaching and
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  method of practice, chapter 11, human relationships in yoga,
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  talking with others Pages, 335 2338,