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**Tattvartha Sutra**
[1. 6-8]
The living space (niwas kshetra) is indeed an infinite part of the world (lok). Nevertheless, there will certainly be some difference, as the space of a rightly conducted (samyaktvi) being will be smaller in measure compared to the space of infinite beings, because the infinite part of the world is also qualitatively infinite in variety.
10. **Sparshan** - Touch (sparshan) refers to the regions surrounding the sky that contact the space. Only the fundamental sky is included in the area (kshetra). In touch, regions of the touched sky surrounding the fundamental area are also included. This is the difference between area and touch. The touch-region of right perception (samyagdarshan) is also an infinite part of the world, but this part is somewhat larger compared to its area, as it includes regions up to the fundamental sky.
11. **Time (kaal)** - In relation to one being, the time of right perception is either finite or infinite (sadi-sant or sadi-anant), but from the perspective of all beings, it should be considered as beginningless and infinite, because there is no part of the past where right conduct did not exist at all. The same applies to the future time, meaning that from time immemorial, the manifestation of right perception has been ongoing and will continue indefinitely!
12. **Separation (antar)** - In relation to one being, the separation time (virahkaal) of right perception should be understood as the lowest internal moment (jaghnya antarmuhurta) and the highest unmeasurable particle rotation (utkrshta aparthapudgalparavart), because once the right conduct is annihilated, it can be attained again in the shortest internal moment. However, if that does not happen, it will certainly be attained after the unmeasurable particle rotation. But in relation to various beings, the separation time of right perception does not exist at all, as there is always some being that possesses right perception.
13. **Feeling (bhav)** - Right conduct is found in these three states: subsiding (upashamik), diminishing (kshayopashamik), and effacing (kshayik). Feelings are covered by the deluding karma of right conduct.
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1. The internal moment (antarmuhurta) is of lesser time than the interval (avli) and more than the moment. The time is more during the lowest internal moment (jaghnya antarmuhurta), less by one time during the highest (utkrshta antarmuhurta), and all time in between is of medium internal moment (madhyama antarmuhurta). This is the tradition of the Digambaras. (See - Tiloyapannatti, 4.288; Go. Jīvakāṇḍ, Gā. 573-515.) According to the Shvetambaras, there are nine times for the lowest internal moment. The rest is the same.
2. The being (jīv) absorbs particles (pudgal) and transforms them into body, speech, mind, and breath. The time it takes for a being to transform the entire particles existing in the world into the body of the eater and to let go of all other bodies in the forms of speech, mind, and breath is called particle rotation (pudgalparavart). If it takes slightly less time, it is called unmeasurable particle rotation (aparthapudgalparavart).