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Others know the condition in which the yogi is, when they are so absorbed in the story of a book as not to hear when spoken to; when they are so lost in a line of thought that the immediate surroundings are banished; when the imagined is the real; when tranced feeling and held mind alone exist, separated from the physical actuality. But there is this vital difference--that their total absorption usually concerns a personal or a worldly matter, whereas the yogi's concerns That which transcends both.

-- Perspectives > Chapter 4: Elementary Meditation > # 53