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Allama Prabhu, gnani of Northern Mysore State, probably fourteenth century, author of the book Sunyasampadane (Attaining of the Void), only half of which has (in the 1960s) been translated into English and published in Dharwar, thus describes the loftiest condition reached in mystical meditation:

The motion of the will is still!
All words are dedicated to Him.
Nay, language has no trace of sound;
Nor is there in all space a bound--"

-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 8 : The Void As Contemplative Experience > # 108