Tripura Rahasya

Sage Dattatreya

Such is the Power called maya, capable of accomplishing the impossible, and remaining undefiled notwithstanding Her manifested diversity as phenomena resembling a mirror and its images. She is the eternal, single, unbroken I-ness, running through all manifestations. These seeming breaks in the continuum are said to be non-self - the same as ignorance, insentience, void, Nature, nonexistence of things, space, darkness, or the first step in creation, all of which represent nothing but the first scission in pure Intelligence. 

The passage from the infinite absolute to a limited nature is influenced by maya, and the transition is called space. But this is as yet indistinguishable from the Self owing to the non-development or absence of the ego, which is the seed of the cycles of births and deaths.

Diversity is visible only in space, and this space is in the Self, which in turn projects it at the moment when differentiation starts, although it is not then clear. Rama, Look within. What you perceive as space within is the expanse wherein all creatures exist, and it forms their Self or consciousness. What they look upon as space is your Self. Thus the Self in one is space in another, and viceversa. The same thing cannot differ in its nature. Therefore there is no difference between space and Self - which is full and perfect Bliss-Consciousness.