' The Enlightenment Experience '...

Repose in this condition of vast emptiness is accompanied by intense and vivid happiness.

He knows that he is with the living God.

He understands that he has come as close to God as it is possible for a human being on earth to do and yet remain human and alive.

But he knows and understands all this not by the movement of ideas--for there are none here--but by a feeling which captures his whole being.

But it is during this final experience of the Void, when he passes beyond all relativity, that he experiences Mind to be the only reality, the only enduring existence, and that all else is but a shadow.

Entry into this stage is therefore a critical point for every aspirant.



-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 8:
The Void As Contemplative Experience > # 32 Paul Brunton