There is no place nor direction, nor space nor sky.

This layered negation describes paramārtha from the perspective of what is negated. Deśa: a particular place, a specific location. Diś: direction, spatial orientation. Ākāśa: space as an elemental principle. Ambara: the sky, the firmament. All of these belong to the order of prapañca, of spatial multiplicity. In paramārtha, there is no space because there are no things to occupy space; there is no direction because there is no center or periphery. The cid-ātman is not “in” any place; it is not contained by space, but rather space is contained by cit.

This is the radical inversion of sāṃkhya: it is not that puruṣa is infinite (vibhu) and exists everywhere; it is that “everywhere” is a mode of puruṣa. For the yogi, this means that bodily location—“I am here, not there”—is an upādhi, an adventitious limitation, not a constitutive one. The body is where consciousness locates it; consciousness is not where the body locates it. This inversion, once assimilated, transforms the experience of āsana: it is no longer “my” body on “this” mat, but cit manifesting as body-mat-world.