Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume III - Part 3
What you feel is the normal condition when the liberation takes place. The work of the senses etc. goes on as before, but the 
consciousness is different, so that one feels not only the sense of liberation, separation etc., but that one is living in quite another world than that of the ordinary mind, life or senses. It is another consciousness with another knowledge and way of looking at things that begins. Afterwards as this consciousness takes possession of the instruments, there is a harmony of it with the sense and life; but these too become different, with a changed outlook, seeing the world no more as before but as if made of another substance with another significance.