In English
We sometimes call a conglomeration of clouds by the name of sky. The sky has no separate entity or existence. It is not a shape which is concrete and made up of the five elements. It has only one quality, namely or sound. And this sound is all-pervading. It is wrong to identify alone with the sky. The sky is known by several names such as akasa, , , or nothingness, and so on. There is nothing there in the sky. The state of nothingness is called by the name of sky. When we sometimes refer to our heart and say, this is , it is because there is no shape for the or heart in a spiritual sense. The akasa has to be cleared of all baser intentions and instincts, all , and .