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imperience we become aware of its dark vastness. The imperience of „Absolute‟ leaves behind a stunning effect on the consciousness which every person who is exposed to Pranahuti feels at some point of time or the other. Strictly speaking, the „Absolute‟ is the ultimate nature of Reality, and it is beyond dimensions; for dimensions are the experience of manifestation. Yet, we do experience the Absolute as a dimension, boundless and infinite. We can say that the „Absolute‟ is the unmanifest imperienced (not the metaphysical postulate of the Unmanifest before all creation), the ultimate truth and mystery of our being. But when our identity begins to manifest it appears as if it is encased in an expanse, an infinite and boundless expanse that looks like black space. So long as we are in the realm of reason we would argue that manifestation appears always in the context of time and space. Therefore, when our true identity witnesses its own field of consciousness it appears to be a vaster, dark expanse. In short we imperience the „Absolute‟ as a
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