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time. Always it remains the same Pure or Perfect Consciousness and Knowledge unlimited by space and time but limited only by the obscuring and contaminating Pudgalas whose presence in the spheres of soul (spaces occupied by the expanse of soul) affects and limits the absolute vision or knowledge of the soul by colouring, polluting, obscuring and distorting the images of all objects as received by this worldly soul encased in the material body. Though Soul's powers of perception remain the same always, except its modifications and manifestations, which only get blurred due to and through the presence of Pudgala body or particles which in their combined and constituted form give this bodyless and formless soul some definite shape and form and limit it in some definite expanse of space called “Pradesha” in Jain Philosophy.
The space occupied by any Pudgala (the smallest invisible, indivisible final particle of matter-( say an electron) is called the "Pudgala Pradesha” and the space occupied by any embodied or liberated Soul is called the “Atman Pradesha”.
