The renunciation was over and done before I could have anticipated it. Within the instant, I had been stripped, without having been consulted, without having had time to face it, to be given a choice, necessarily treated as a blind person whose opinion is not asked, who in matters of transcendence is and always will be ignorant, muddle-headed, vociferous, inevitably misinformed, invariably inadequate to the occasion. Relieved of all surroundings, cleansed of all consistency, of all property, of all sense of ownership, incapable of conceiving any possession around me and lacking the preliminary minimum necessary to any attachment, I was in an ecstasy of space. The sky, then, by its very nature proceeds in the direction of expansion, of transcendence, of the limitless. Lacking anything reductive, anything weighty, once the barrier is crossed in a single leap, there is no longer any obstacle or any tendency to fall back later, to lapse, to distraction.
Space is received as a purification.
But it may also experience the revelation of Maya, the Universal Illusion, whose manifestation here is obvious. And it may also experience the revelation of the Absolute, of the limitless Spirit. If it is of a loving nature, the mind can even experience the revelation of a love which is the unique universal reality. The barriers of the physical so utterly overcome, the metaphysical alone remaining and realizable, it is for metaphysical nourishment that one hungers, instantly and unbelievably, it is a metaphysical response that one impatiently craves, it is a metaphysical world that one urgently needs in order to receive the revelation included within it. As I see it, the revelation of divestment, the beatitude within divestment, the matchless expansion, that ineffable, incomparable nonduality, should be protected from accommodation by any system, no matter how tempting, protected from being distorted, prematurely, in controlled applications.