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## Translation:
**263. There, the transactional time is momentary, because it is only as much as a subtle modification (as much as the time itself), the definitive time is eternal, because it is always indestructible in its form as the fundamental substance of its quality modifications.** ||100||
**Commentary:**
Here, the nature of transactional time and definitive time is established. Time, in the form of moments, minutes, hours, days, etc., is transactional time. How is it? It is born of modification - the slow movement of atoms, the blinking of the eyelids, the movement of the hand holding a water vessel, the movement of the sun, etc. This is the nature of the modification in the form of the quality modification of the pudgala substance. Because it is manifested by it, it is revealed, therefore, in transactions, it is considered to be born of the pudgala modification. But in reality, the modification of the definitive time is in the form of the kalaanu substance. The modification, born of the substance time - the aforementioned pudgala modification, starting from the movement of atoms, etc., is born from the kalaanu substance, which is the cause of the lower stone and the outer ring in the rotation of the potter's wheel, like the fire for the reader in the winter. Therefore, it is born of the substance time. This is the nature of both the definitive and transactional time. What is the nature of transactional time? It is born of modification, because it is manifested by the pudgala modification. Definitive time, however, is the cause of modification. Time is momentary - transactional time in the form of time is momentary, but definitive time is eternal - because it is always indestructible due to its being the basis of its own quality modifications. Here, although a being who has attained liberation through the three jewels of distinction, non-distinction, and the jewel of knowledge, attains the ultimate happiness, which is the goal to be achieved, by being free from attachment, etc., and being eternally blissful, the being is not the cause of it, but time is not the cause. Thus, it is said: "The self is the cause of its own attainment," etc. ||100||