As space is everywhere, so is the pervasion all-pervading

Space does not occupy places — it is the condition that makes places possible. You cannot point to a place where space is not, because space is not a thing that is somewhere; it is what allows things to be somewhere. Consciousness is the same: not an object among objects but the condition that allows objects to appear. This is not a metaphor but a structural analogy. Vasiṣṭha uses ākāśa repeatedly because it is the closest experience we have to what consciousness is: invisible, intangible, all-pervading, and impossible to grasp.