Sri Aurobindo’s Nirvāṇa Account and Integral Yoga

Record summary

Sri Aurobindo described a decisive nirvāṇa experience during instruction from the yogi Vishnu Bhaskar Lele in 1908, followed by a theory of progressive transformation involving mental silence, intuition and supramental consciousness. His writings and disciples’ records provide a named South Asian source for comparing sudden altered states with long-term contemplative development. The material is philosophical and autobiographical rather than experimental evidence for telepathy or precognition. Dates and details are relatively well known, but later interpretations often merge Aurobindo’s own reports with institutional doctrine.