8 - On the eighth level (apurva karana)
entirely new and unknown abilities open up. Our consciousness recognizes itself in everything it encounters. Though mild forms of passions still arise, we experience immense delight in either dissolving them or checking their consequences. From this stage onwards the practice of the highest form of meditation (shukla dhyana - 'white mediation') becomes possible. shukla dhyana is the instrument that enables us to achieve ultimate freedom.