Experience is exclusively inner, mental, not belonging to the ken of matter. Objects are inert and incapable of giving rise to experience. Experiences undergo a mystic transformation within us to become knowledge and memory. All ideas and notions follow experience. So, how can anything besides our experiences and consequent ideas and notions ever be?

To recognize this fundamental and rest on it firmly, is to deny externality and grossness to anything we perceive and think of. All are inner, subjective, personal and experiential alone. Thus, distance and nearness are but notions of our mind and have relevance only to the mental plane. World itself is an idea, notional. And so everything in and about the world is equally notional.

What about gross, and even subtle? Gross is an idea, subtle is another in contrast. All ideas are units and measures of knowledge, relating to our inner mind alone. Can there be any object at all then? Does any object we perceive come near and enter within us? Or we only perceive it with the senses, for the mind to take its imprint in itself? So, are not all existing, prevailing inside alone? Hence nothing can be gross at all, or external.

All words and their identifications are notional alone. No mental product exists as such. Thoughts and ideas emerge and subside too instantly. What survives, if at all, is the source of all these, namely ‘svamahima’, one’s own indescribable glory! Indeed so.