As described by Sri Aurobindo and his co-worker The Mother (1878-1973), this spiritual teaching involves an integral divine transformation of the entire being, rather than the liberation of only a single faculty such as the intellect or the emotions or the body.
Aurobindo's ideas were further explored by Indra Sen (1903-1994) in the 1940s and 1950s, a psychologist, and devotee of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.