The mind of a sage is continuously sensing a reality beyond appearances, a reality beyond limits. There is a constant realization that all the diversities share commonalities and there is something beyond the diversities that contain all the diversities. This feeling is being given a poetic manifestation in this particular verse. What matters here is the sense that there is something definitely beyond; that which is perceivable, all that which can be experienced between the Earth and the sky is of little importance compared to that.
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अन्तरिक्षोदरः कोशो भूमिबुध्नो न जीर्यति दिशो ह्यस्य स्रक्तयो ।। द्यौरस्योत्तरं बिलं स एष कोशो वसुधानस्तस्मिन्विश्वमिदं श्रितम् ।। ३.१५.१ ।।
Antarikṣodaraḥ kośo bhūmibudhno na jīryati diśo hyasya sraktayo ।। Dyaurasyottaraṃ bilaṃ sa eṣa kośo vasudhānastasminviśvamidaṃ śritam ।।3.15.1।।
~ Chandogya Upanishad: Chapter 3, Part 15, Verse 1
Translation: The chest, which has the sky for its circumference and the earth for its bottom, does not decay, for the quarters are its sides, and heaven its lid above. This chest is the container of treasures, for in it rests the whole Universe.
