The purest consciousness in the highest level of meditation is a still consciousness. It is like a reservoir, like a forcefield, dynamic, vibrant but a very quiet vibration. . . .  The pure consciousness in meditation is aware of itself. . . . It is like a flame, which, to prove to itself ‘I am a being of light,’ looks at all the illumination around it, which it itself is casting. ~ Swami Veda Bharati