Meditation brings a third state: mind is non- functioning, just as it is in deep dreamless sleep — that is one part of meditation, the circumference of meditation. And the second part is when you are not asleep, you are fully awake, alert, a flame of witnessing — that is the centre of meditation. Whenever these two things happen — you are aware and there is no mind, no thought, no desire, no dream passing through the screen of consciousness — you attain to ultimate clarity. That is the meaning of Beryl: crystal clear.
In that crystal clarity one knows what truth is, what bliss is, what beauty is. And to know it is to have attained the ultimate flowering, to know it is to have come to the highest peak. Then one feels at home, at rest. Now finally there is nowhere to go, nothing to attain. One has arrived. We in the East call it samadhi. Samadhi means a state of ultimate realisation, of truth, beauty, bliss, consciousness, freedom — of all the higher values.
