No outside, no inside

Those who investigate reality
describe it as the ‘changeless’.

It is not coarse, not yet refined;
it is not long or short.

No flame of passion colours it;
no fond affection is involved.
In it, no shadow brings obscurity;
there’s no obstruction to be cleared.

It is not ‘air’, nor ‘ether’.
Connection and relationship
do not apply to it. Nor do
any qualities, like taste and smell.

It has no eyes, no ears, no speech,
no mind; it is not sharp, nor has it
vital energy, nor any face, nor measure.

Nor does it consume, nor is consumed. from
It has no outside, no inside.

Yajnyavalkya,
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
in AnandaWood, Nature and Consciousness
http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/downloads/nature.pdf