Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.201

c16.201

(14) This plane of the spirit, too, like the preceding planes, gives rise to a new cycle of insights, each of which may leave its traces on the life-history of consciousness (tataḥ navo navaḥ saṁskārāśayo jāyate). When the progress of the spirit stops, the sprouting of consciousness even in this form ceases, and the final stage, that of 'seedless contemplation' (*nirvīja-samādhi*), matures.