The deeper he looks into his own nature--a procedure which cannot be done without practising meditation--the nearer he will come to the truth about it. In the first stage of penetration, his external surroundings, and the whole world with them, vanish. In the second and deeper stage, the feeling I am rooted in God alone remains. In the third stage the I thought also goes. In the final stage even the ideaGod disappears. There remains then no idea of any kind--only peace beyond telling, consciousness in its pure ever-still state.

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

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