[Upon awakening some people expect] to see blazing lights and see stars and geometrical figures and hear beautiful music. These things are all of the mind. All you’re doing when these things ensue you’re going into subtle areas of the mind. Where there are things happening just like they’re happening in this plane of existence.

So in the subtle planes of existence there are also things happening. They may be a little different. You may hear sacred voices talking to you. You may hear the voice of your deity. Maybe it’s the Christ or Buddha or somebody else. You’re making headway but remember this is also of the mind. It is the mind that causes all of this.

You want to go beyond that. You want to go beyond everything. Never stop and say ‘I have arrived.’ For when you make that statement, ‘I’ve arrived,’ it shows that you have not arrived because there was somebody to arrive. When you have arrived there is nothing to say and there is no one to say it. It’s all been transcended.

Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)