Chit Akash Nearness

How near is the chit akash to regular physical-body mental consciousness?

What is the distance between where a human being normally is in terms of consciousness and the chit akash level of existence?

How to bridge the gap?

What is required to achieve vision into the chit akash?

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Something happened time and time again in meditation which is one of the definite ways to know that one reached the chit akash sky of divine consciousness. This is not the only access but if it happens to you, please recognize that I identified it to be the chit akash which is on the other side of whatever energy usually surrounds your core-self.

This is what happens:

During meditation without any cause on your own part, just like that, there appears to be a lighted cloud ahead towards the front of the subtle head, not too far but in the distance a little. This cloud attracts the meditator. As soon as it does so, the meditator acts as if he saw a dear friend, someone whom he loves dearly.

Up ahead there is not just a lighted cloud but a cloud in front and then a space where there is bright light, then a cloud behind. The meditator is curious about it, as curious as can be. But then the whole show begins to fade away, gone, gone as if it never happened.

Whatever was behind the first cloud and in between the first and second cloud, the light is the chit akash sky of consciousness.

Can the meditator reach it?

There is a related verse in the Bhagavad Gita about the energy which surrounds the core-self and prevents it from reaching the spiritual environment.

All meditators can take my notice that failure to reach the chit akash is caused by the cloud of energy which surrounds the core-self, as described by Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita (my translation):

dhūmenāvriyate = dhūmena — by smoke + āvriyate — is obscured; vahnir = vahniḥ — the sacrificial fire; yathā — similarly; 'darśo = ādarśaḥ — mirror; malena — with dust; ca — and; yatholbenāvṛto = yatholbenāvṛtaḥ = yatho (yatha) — similarly + ulbena — by skin + āvṛtaḥ — is covered; garbhaḥ — embryo; tathā — so; tenedam = tena — by this + idam — this; āvṛtam — is blocked

As the sacrificial fire is obscured by smoke, and similarly as a mirror is shrouded by dust or as an embryo is covered by skin, so a man's insight is blocked by the passionate energy. (3.38)

āvṛtam — is adjusted; jñānam — discernment; etena — by this; jñānino = jñāninaḥ — educated people; nityavairiṇā = nitya — eternal + vairiṇā — by the enemy; kāmarūpeṇa = kāma — yearning for various things + rūpeṇa — by the sense or form of; kaunteya — son of Kuntī; duṣpūreṇānalena = duspūreṇa — is hard to satisfy + analena — by fire; ca — and

The discernment of educated people is adjusted by their eternal enemy which is the sense of yearning for various things. O son of Kuntī, the lusty power, is as hard to satisfy as it is to keep a fire burning. (3.39)

indriyāṇi — the senses; mano = manaḥ — the mind; buddhir = buddhiḥ — the intelligence; asyādhiṣṭhānam = asya — if this + adhiṣṭhānam — warehouse; ucyate — it is authoritatively stated; etair = etaiḥ — with these; vimohayatyeṣa = vimohayaty (vimohayati) — confuses + eṣa — this; jñānam — insight; āvṛtya — is shrouded; dehinam — embodied soul

It is authoritatively stated that the senses, the mind and the intelligence are the combined warehouse of the passionate enemy. By these faculties, the lusty power confuses the embodied soul, shrouding his insight. (3.40)