Question: The fourth day after I started meditating I felt that my body was lifting and I was looking down on myself from the ceiling of my room.

Sri Chinmoy: What happened is that for a few seconds your soul left your body and you identified with the soul. Your physical consciousness remained below your soul-reality. Right now you do not see your soul-reality. The divinity which your soul embodies you do not see. But when you become consciously one with the soul-reality you will see it. What you experienced is very good. For a few seconds you identified with the soul-reality and not the body-reality. When you go one step further and bring the soul-reality into the body-reality, that is illumination.