A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga

yardstick a certain number of times toward an imaginary point in the Nothingness that we call Space. This makes sense as far as it goes, but the mind instinctively recognizes that beyond that imaginary point at the end of the last yardstick, there is a capacity for an infinite extension of yardsticks—an infinite capacity for that extension. Extension of what? Space? No! Yardsticks! Objects! Things! Without material objects, Space is unthinkable. It has no existence outside of our awareness of physical things. There is no such thing as "Real Space." Space is merely an infinite capacity for placing objects. "Space" itself is just a name for Nothingness. If you can imagine an object being wiped out of existence with nothing to take its place, that "nothing" would be called Space; the term simply implies the possibility of placing something there without having to push anything else out of the way.

Size, of course, is just another way of talking about Distance. In this context, let us remember that just as we can think of Space as being infinite in terms of largeness, we can also think of it as being infinite in terms of smallness. No matter how small an object we imagine, we are still able to conceive of it being divided even further, and so on, forever. There is no limit in this direction either. As Jakob Likely referring to Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819), a German philosopher who examined the limits of human reason. has said:

“The concept of the infinitely small is just as impossible for us to grasp as that of the infinitely great. Despite this, we must inevitably admit that infinity original: "infinitude" is real in both directions—greatness and smallness.”