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## Chapter 22: Explanation of Positional Differentiation, Time and Duration
**Verse 27**
331. Time is related to a living being. 332. The minimum time for the three types of increase in false conduct is one moment, while the maximum time is two moments. 333. The time for increase is the same. 334. The minimum time for the countless divisions of decrease in false conduct is one moment, while the maximum time is one hundred sixty-three sagara-opamas plus one. 335. The maximum time for decrease is one hundred sixty-three sagara-opamas plus one.
**Churnisutra 0:** Now, the time related to the increase, decrease, etc., of a living being is called the time of the living being. The minimum time for the three types of increase in false conduct - countless divisions of increase, countable divisions of increase, and countable multiplications of increase - is one moment, and the maximum time is two moments. || 331-333 ||
**Special Meaning:** When a living being, due to half-destruction or restricted destruction, increases its existing positional essence by one moment and binds itself to a position, and then in the second moment, it becomes less or undergoes positional differentiation, the minimum time for the three types of increase is found to be one moment. The maximum time for the three types of increase in false conduct is said to be two moments. Its explanation is as follows: A one-sense living being was existing, bound to a position. Due to the destruction of time of that position, it binds itself to a position for one moment, equivalent to countless divisions of increase. Then, in the second moment, due to restricted destruction, it binds itself to a position for one moment, equivalent to countless divisions of increase. In the third moment, it becomes less or undergoes positional differentiation. Thus, the maximum time for countless divisions of increase is found to be two moments. Similarly, one should understand the two moments for two-sense, etc., living beings.
**Churnisutra 0:** The minimum time for countless divisions of decrease in false conduct is one moment, and the maximum time is one hundred sixty-three sagara-opamas plus one. || 334-335 ||
**Special Meaning:** When a living being, bound to a position, decreases its existing positional essence by one moment and binds itself to a position, and then in the subsequent moment, it binds itself to a position equal to its existing positional essence, the minimum time for countless divisions of decrease is found to be only one moment. The maximum time for countless divisions of decrease in false conduct is one hundred sixty-three sagara-opamas plus one. Its explanation is as follows: A living being existing in the state of increase or positional differentiation, by becoming less in positional differentiation, attains the state of omniscience for the duration of the most excellent internal moment. Then, following the previously mentioned order, it wanders for two times sixty-six sagara-opamas. After that, it is born in the state of a Graiveyak deva, having a position of thirty-one sagara-opamas, and attains false conduct. There, it completes its lifespan and dies, being reborn as a human being with a lifespan of the previous koți. There, after the internal moment, it becomes filled with defilements and attains the state of binding to a position of the form of an arm. Thus, the maximum time is one hundred sixty-three sagara-opamas plus one, exceeding one internal moment.
After explaining the maximum time for countless divisions of decrease in false conduct in the above manner, Jayadhavala says that the time of one hundred sixty-three sagara-opamas, which is said to exceed the internal moment, is less. Therefore, one should not accept it, but should accept the time exceeding countless divisions of the palya-opamas. To bring that, he says that before wandering for two times sixty-six sagara-opamas, the desired...
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