Glance at a bright lamp, then look away — a dark blot floats across the wall. It isn't on the wall; it's a trace inside the eye, a gap in your vision. Take this schoolroom experiment: the same happens to consciousness. Turned away from God, from the spiritual light, it carries a negative afterimage — a void, a nothing. And without noticing, we cast that inner gap over the whole world. That's why it seems that at the bottom of things lies insentient, self-existent matter with no one behind it. Vedanta calls this projected emptiness Brahman. But it is not a fact, only the dark blot of an averted gaze. Turn back toward the Light, and the blot dissolves, and the world is full again of the One who holds it.