 Neti neti negates all properties, conceptions, limitations, and identities attributed to brahman; however, it cannot lose all reference. Passages using negative language may push their object away, allowing the unobjectifiable object to continually slip back and beyond; however, the purpose is not open ended. Negation strips away all false conceptions, including one’s tendency to grasp after the absolute, without lapsing into nihilism or an infinite regression (BrSūBh 3.2.22). What appears to be an illogical infinite regress of negation is harnessed as a semantic force for understanding the absolute. Negative language turns onto itself as well, negating its prior negation and its own referential delimitations. When all conceptions of “I” as “this” or “that” are negated, then one’s self is understood to be nondual consciousness.