A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga

Time has no real existence outside of our perception or our consciousness of the relative positions of things—material objects. We see one thing here and another thing there. Between them is "nothingness." We take another object, such as a yardstick, and measure this nothingness between the two objects, and we call this measurement of nothingness by the term "distance." And yet, we cannot have actually measured nothingness—that is impossible. What have we really done? Simply this: we have determined how many lengths of a yardstick could be laid between the other two objects.

We call this process "measuring space," but space is nothing, and we have merely determined the relative positions of objects. To "measure space," we must have three things or objects:
1. The object from which we start the measurement;
2. The object with which we measure; and
3. The object at which we end our measurement.

We are unable to conceive of Infinite Space Space without limits or boundaries. because we lack that third object in the measuring process—the ending object. We may use ourselves as a starting point, and a mental yardstick is always at hand, but where is the object on the other side of the infinity of space by which the measurement may be ended? It does not exist, and we cannot think of an "end" without it.

Let us start with ourselves and try to imagine a million million miles, and then multiply that by another million million miles, a million million times over. What have we done? We have simply extended our mental