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birth but I cannot interfere with it.
Space is infinite so we have to locate the time within this infinite as time is relevant to the space. The attempt to locate time must take into consideration the space as without space time cannot be computed in isolation. Not impossible but daunting even then.
Since location of time is dependent on knowledge we have to increase the knowledge as if it was within the present domain and capacity of knowledge then we would have been able to locate the past by now. We have not been able to do this due to finiteness of our present knoweldge which is very very finite when compared to the infinite time. If we can increase the limits of finiteness of the knowledge then our frontiers for knowing the time will also increase. Time will come closer to be known.
Look at different persons - all have some knowledge. Limits of knowledge vary from person to person, animal to animal, plant to plant, though they may belong to same species. Each living being has knowledge and each one's knowledge is partially covered in some covered to the maximum but not fully and in some minimum part of the knowledge is covered but not totally uncovered. This cover has to be removed. When knowledge is fully uncovered it knows everything in all its respects for all times.
This cover is also an Eml. We can know it but we cannot see it. We can feel it (not by any senses) but we cannot observe it - literal (external) observation I mean. Reason is that knowledge cover is negative of knowledge having the same properties but only in the negative.
The cover of knowledge - 'Kc' is there from the first moment of a particular life.
We can always know what actually happened at a particular time either in past or even what is going to happen at a particular time in future and stretching it we can see all for infinity both ways. But in the absence of total knowledge these specific limits are imposed on our knowing which is relevant to the level of cover. More the cover more the limit and more the ignorance.
How can we know what happened at a particular time past?
One and the only sure way is the total knowledge when anything past and everything future and all present is clear like back of one's palm. The second is one positions oneself at a place which is a point so much removed away from the past and future that these convert themselves into present which is always knowable and the third is one travels faster than the speed of past Arhat Vacana, 14 (2-3), 2002
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