Chapter 3

Voidness

The voidness is the best condition for a full receptivity.

The voidness (if by that you mean silence and emptiness of thoughts, movements etc.) is the basic condition into which the higher consciousness can flow.

The usual result of voidness is to quiet down any vital tumult although it does not, unless it is complete, stop the mechanical recurrent action of the mind.

Yes, it becomes like that [the correspondent wrote that in the state of voidness his body felt as light as cotton. – Ed.]. In the end you feel as if you had no body, but were spread out in the vastness of space as an infinite consciousness and existence – or as if the body were only a dot in that consciousness.

There is no reason why the void should be a dull or unhappy condition. It is usually the habit of the mind and vital to associate happiness or interest only with activity, but the spiritual consciousness has no such limitations.

Voidness can come from anywhere, mind, vital or from above.

Voidness may be of different kinds – a certain kind of spiritual voidness or the emptiness that is a preparation for new experience. But an exhaustion of life energy is a very different thing. It may arise from fatigue, from somebody or something drawing away the vital force or from an invasion of tamas.