The Infinite Knows the World Indirectly
The finite mind, with its concept of linear time, spatial boundaries, and causal relationships, operates within the realm of duality and limitation. Because of these constraints, the mind cannot comprehend the infinite nature of awareness. To the mind, infinity is a concept, an abstraction. Direct experiential knowing of that which is utterly unbound remains elusive through intellectual means alone.
However, localized awareness can rest in itself, as itself. This resting is not the result of seeking but of a simple recognition of the “I am” that precedes all qualifiers, the unconditioned ground of being.
In the same way, universal awareness, in its infinite and limitless nature, cannot directly know the finite mind as a separate, bounded entity. To do so, to, as it were, stand apart from itself as a subject in order to regard an object, would be to create a limitation within itself, and therefore the infinite could no longer be infinite. Instead, infinite awareness knows the finite mind indirectly as one of countless expressions within its own boundless field.
Just as dreams are an activity of the mind, so the mind is an activity of infinite awareness.