third stage of meditation...

The third stage is successfully reached when he forgets the world outside,

when he neither sees nor touches it,

neither hears nor smells it with his body,

when memory and personality dissolve in a vacuum as the attention is wholly and utterly absorbed in the thought of,

and identity with,

the Overself.



— Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1: Preparatory > # 272
Paul Brunton