Krishnamurti’s argument continues like this. What the Observer in meditation experiences, is not the silence. Actually silence will not be in the borders of recognition. And silence has no frontiers. In silence, the space of division ceases. Generally we think that space had the dimensions and they are the three dimensions of length, breadth and thickness. Modern science considers space and time as one. Time becomes invisible space. With the visibility of space the demarcating line of time will go back diminishing. Our normal functioning will make consciousness as the fourth dimension. Time will be the fifth dimension. A dimension is generally a mode of seeing. As we have seen above we come to recognize that there will be a fifth dimension, and it will be apparent from our own consideration that space will be having an infinite number of dimensions. Then, does it lead to think that Meditation is the exploration of infinite dimensions. A dimension is a mode of seeing and in fact it is a scale of observation. Thus, dimension becomes only a point of view. We can move from one dimension to the other dimension. It is movement from one reality to the other. But meditation is not a movement. Meditation, Krishnamurti says, is the perception of the world without any reference to these dimensions. The world then appears as Nothingness because there were no dimensions. He questions further:
Then what is meditation in relation to space? It is the perception of the world bereft of all dimensions. Is it possible to see a dimension-less world? Is not our visibility dependent upon the framework of dimension? A world without dimensions must appear a world of Nothingness, for it is dimension that gives form and shape to the world30.
Form and shape comes out of the dimensions alone. According to Krishnamurti, space exists as space with an object and space without an object. Our regular day to day world is the space with an object. The other space which exists without an object is the space without frontiers. Silence has no frontiers. So, it cannot be defined. That which cannot be defined cannot be recognized. Recognition by the mind happens only when there is a clear definition of name and form.
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