It sometimes seems there is an individual who has a relationship with the absolute. The individual self realizes there is something other than himself and the manifest world around him. He calls it pure consciousness and meditates on it, and allows this self-luminous presence to flow through him. It is he who chooses to be a part of pure consciousness, a person who has something to do. However, if there is any such thing as eternal or infinite, as the nature of pure consciousness surely must be, then there cannot be a relationship between the finite individual and infinite pure consciousness.
We think of space as limitless, and we assume there are limited things within this space. Yet if space be truly limitless those finite things must be made up of that space. Either there is no infinite eternal existence or there is only infinite eternal existence. If the former is true then we are bound to the ever-changing cycle of birth and rebirth. But the field of existence that I know has no limits and therefore there must only be it. Everything I think I am, any relationship I think I have to the phenomenal world including the phenomenal word can only be eternal infinite existence.