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The essential difference is this: in the fulfilment of the second phase, consciousness of the outer surroundings of the world vanishes; but in the fulfilment of the third phase, consciousness of the ego, the person, also vanishes. Then there is left behind only Pure Consciousness in itself.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 288