Infinite consciousness, and a façade of eternal bliss?

Hi Everyone,
here I am again with a couple(more than a couple!) of questions, but first:
in order from gross to subtle
earth, water, fire, air, space, consciousness, nothingness, neither perception nor nonperception.
-Space is infinite, all-pervasive, eternal, so is consciousness?
-Both space and consciousness are subtler than the Suddashtaka?
-Existence while merger with those two is absolutely blissful, full of oceanic joy and an unshakable serenity, it still ends. (20000 great eons and 40000 great eons.) as I see?
-Memory records from beginning-less time are stored in the consciousness property. In other words, what we have thought, done, everything. (I wonder if the rumors’ of Akashic records originated from that, except it should be Vinnanic, not Akashic.) is that correct? could it also be possible to retrieve those records for one self?
-I see it as the end goal of all Vedanta practices. Merger with the eternal cosmic consciousness which is pure, absolutely blissful…. Except there’s no such thing as eternity there too! How fortunate we are to get to know this from a Fully Enlightened Buddha! And thanks to Lal sir, the Pure Dhamma is shining!
-Is it also possible to perceive the entire universe while being in contact with infinite space and infinite consciousness? (I am wondering because I’ll post the reference below.)
reference:
“Poor boy, the mountains couldn’t give what you wanted.” Master spoke caressively, comfortingly. His calm gaze was unfathomable. “Your heart’s desire shall be fulfilled.”

Sri Yukteswar seldom indulged in riddles; I was bewildered. He struck gently on my chest above the heart.

My body became immovably rooted; breath was drawn out of my lungs as if by some huge magnet. Soul and mind instantly lost their physical bondage, and streamed out like a fluid piercing light from my every pore. The flesh was as though dead, yet in my intense awareness I knew that never before had I been fully alive. My sense of identity was no longer narrowly confined to a body, but embraced the circumambient atoms. People on distant streets seemed to be moving gently over my own remote periphery. The roots of plants and trees appeared through a dim transparency of the soil; I discerned the inward flow of their sap.

The whole vicinity lay bare before me. My ordinary frontal vision was now changed to a vast spherical sight, simultaneously all-perceptive. Through the back of my head I saw men strolling far down Rai Ghat Road, and noticed also a white cow who was leisurely approaching. When she reached the space in front of the open ashram gate, I observed her with my two physical eyes. As she passed by, behind the brick wall, I saw her clearly still.

All objects within my panoramic gaze trembled and vibrated like quick motion pictures. My body, Master’s, the pillared courtyard, the furniture and floor, the trees and sunshine, occasionally became violently agitated, until all melted into a luminescent sea; even as sugar crystals, thrown into a glass of water, dissolve after being shaken. The unifying light alternated with materializations of form, the metamorphoses revealing the law of cause and effect in creation.

An oceanic joy broke upon calm endless shores of my soul. The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light. A swelling glory within me began to envelop towns, continents, the earth, solar and stellar systems, tenuous nebulae, and floating universes. The entire cosmos, gently luminous, like a city seen afar at night, glimmered within the infinitude of my being. The sharply etched global outlines faded somewhat at the farthest edges; there I could see a mellow radiance, ever-undiminished. It was indescribably subtle; the planetary pictures were formed of a grosser light.

The divine dispersion of rays poured from an Eternal Source, blazing into galaxies, transfigured with ineffable auras. Again and again I saw the creative beams condense into constellations, then resolve into sheets of transparent flame. By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament.

I cognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart. Irradiating splendor issued from my nucleus to every part of the universal structure. Blissful amrita , the nectar of immortality, pulsed through me with a quicksilverlike fluidity. The creative voice of God I heard resounding as Aum , 14-1 the vibration of the Cosmic Motor.

Suddenly the breath returned to my lungs. With a disappointment almost unbearable, I realized that my infinite immensity was lost. Once more I was limited to the humiliating cage of a body, not easily accommodative to the Spirit. Like a prodigal child, I had run away from my macrocosmic home and imprisoned myself in a narrow microcosm.

-Was this infinite consciousness, or something else?
-Autobiography of a yogi, “an experience in the cosmic consciousness”.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7452/7452-h/7452-h.htm
I would recommend this book. It shows the immense(but ultimately) limited possibilities of attaining anariya jhanas.
-Also, in the chapter, “The Resurrection Of Sri Yukteswar”, which heaven is described according to the Dhamma? Apparently, Sri Yukteswar died and was reborn there, and came back to his disciples.(contrary to the expectations, he didn’t merge with infinite consciousness, though. I wonder why? Could it be something related to being in the corresponding jhana at the moment of death? It’s possible that he was born in a sensuous realm because he couldn’t sustain the 6th jhana at the time of his death?)
Before being introduced to Dhamma, I read such biographies and got impressed, but still there was something dissatisfying. Now I know what it is.
-There’s no ultimate end of suffering by attaining those things! They’re like the magicians tricks, except those tricks are so complex and intricately formulated that they superimpose false attributes on the true nature of reality of three characteristics.
May all beings speedily attain the Deathless!
With Meta,
Gaurav