An idea from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Absorption comes in stages, and each one still holds an object, like a seed. In the clearest stage, what you know is true, and it differs from what reading or reasoning gives you. Its imprint pushes out older imprints. When even that imprint stops, nothing is left to grow from.

From The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Patañjali

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