It is like a bucket of water dipped into the well. A rope is controlling the bucket through the pulley on top of the well. The bucket is full of water (Godliness) inside and is immersed in the water of the well (pure Godliness) on the outside; the bucket still "lingers" about in the water as it is tied to the rope suspended through the pulley. Even though the "water in the bucket" (the being of the one who is meditating) is the same as the "water in the well" (Godliness), the rope (ego) still dangles between the pulley and the water in the well. Meditation also takes you beyond (in Sanskrit this is called Thuriya or Shoonya) to a place where neither the meditator nor the meditation exists. It is the free flow state where the water in the bucket and the water in the well have melted into one another and there is no entity of either the rope or the bucket (or the well). Pure infiniteness, pure isness floats infinitely. - Ramakrishna Paramahansa.