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Hi Alex,
That is a very interesting question. I suspect that you can’t “find” infinity because it has never been lost.
A long while ago, I recall reading some verses of the Vedanta, where it was written that Atman is infinite; bigger than the biggest thing and at the same time smaller than the smallest thing.
This had me puzzled for a long, long time before I realised that their “concept” of Atman is that of an infinite, eternal, undifferentiated state, being or oneness, so being infinite it both contains everything (bigger than the biggest thing) and also permeates everything (smaller than the smallest thing), but is itself formless in that is has no boundaries nor is it contained by anything.
It seems that when the seeker “finds” this Atman or supreme state of being, they realise that it has never been lost or absent; simply that the seeker was looking in the wrong place with the wrong set of tools. It seemed quite an interesting and stimulating philosophy, from the little I now recall.
Cheers
Dennis
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