Studies in the Epics and Puranas c8.48

c8.48

The *Chāndogya*, again, marks a further advance stating space to be the arche of things.²² Space is said to be the final habitat. In yet another passage, the same *Upaniṣad* maintains that space is really higher than fire, the sun and the moon, the lightning and the stars, and advises to meditate upon space as the highest reality.