Acharya Prashant discusses Chhandogya Upanishad 3.15.1, which describes the universe as a vast, undecaying chest with the earth as its bottom, the sky as its circumference, and heaven as its lid. He explains that this poetic imagery is used by sages to communicate the infinitude of the truth. The purpose of such immense and incomprehensible imagery is to stun the mind and force it to pause. Since the mind cannot reconcile itself with such vastness, it must eventually dismiss itself, provided there is faith. This dismissal of the mind is the intended path to realization, as the mind's regular patterns are limited to small, material things.