Each person’s experiences will be unique, depending on the ever-changing condition of their individual nervous system. Maharishi emphasizes the importance of remaining innocent. Practitioners never look for or try to produce any specific experience in the TM practice.

Here is how one TM practitioner describes the experience of Transcendental Consciousness:

“During the Transcendental Meditation technique, my mind settles down, thoughts become less and then suddenly all thought activity ceases and I slip into an unbounded ocean of awareness which is pure, quiet, unexcited, and infinitely extended beyond space and time. In this state, I am not aware of any thought or any thing; I am just aware of awareness, you could say, wide awake inside but not thinking. Simultaneously my body settles down, breathing becomes less, and I feel relaxed.”

Another meditator describes the expanded, infinite aspect of the fourth state of consciousness:

“During the practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique, I sometimes reach a state of complete silence, which has come about very innocently. The experience is one of evenness and expansion, of infinity, and I am that infinity.”