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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
STHITI (DURATION)
Duration has three varieties (1) Shortest (2) Medium (3) Longest.
DURATION OF EIGHT KINDS OF KARMA
KARMA
LOWEST DURATION
LONGEST DURATION
I) Knowledge-obscuring
Antar Muhurta
30 Kotakoti
Sagaropama
2) Intuition
3) Feeling-Producing
12 Muhurta
4) Belief-obscuring
Antar Muhurta
70 Kotakoti
Sagaropama 33 Sagaropama 26 ,
5) Age-determining Antar Muhurta 6) Personality-determining 8 Muhurtas 7) Status-determining 8) Power-hindering Antar Muhurtas
30 Kotakoti
Sagaropama.
One Samaya more than the shortest time and one Sanmaya less than the longest time would amount to the medium duration.
Arithmetic and Science are interdependent and in Arithmetic you are bound to come across big and small calculations. Any modern scientist cannot dispense with arithmetic. Modern Science has noted even thousandth fraction of a second and it is applied in certain experiments. But our calculation of time is still more subtle than that of the modern science.
The minutest possible time that cannot be divided even mentally is called 'Samaya'. Indefinite number of these 'Samayas' make "Avulika". Indefinite number of Avalikas make one 'Shwasa'. Two Shwasas make one 'Prana'. Seven Pranas make one 'Stoka'. Seven stokas make one Lava and 77 Lavas make one Muhurta. Thirty Muhurtas make one day and night. Remember these terms
