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unaltered. There is only contraction or expansion of the same invariable number of units of space depending on the type of the physical body. The soul's territory is equivalent to that of the world in which it exists along with other substances but it rarely spreads its units in the whole world. In a rare event, some Arihanta's or Omniscient's territorial units expand in the whole world. First it expands vertically like a pillar, then it spreads horizontally in the world like opening of doors and then spreads in all directions and engulfs the entire world. In the same manner, while contracting the reverse process takes place one by one and comes back to its original state. When the sun shines, the rays spread everywhere on the whole earth and the other relevant space in the sky and brightens it up, in the same way the units of the soul spreads in the entire universe.
In an elephant size body, the units of space occupied by a soul remain the same as that in an ant size body -innumerable but invariable. The measurement of innumerable number of spaces is so big that even when an innumerable number is divided by itself, the result will also be innumerable. The soul may occupy a small body or it contracts in smaller shape, even then the number of spacepoints occupied remains innumerable. It does not become one spaced or numerable spaced in case of contraction. For example, the smallest piece of potato resting on the pointed top of a needle-has innumerable number of physical bodies and in each body there are infinite souls and each soul occupies its own innumerable space-points.
The soul is formless in nature, so where one life exists, other lives can also co-exist in the same space. Therefore, individual infinite lives having infinite spaces can still coexist in a single unit of space. The world consisting of six substances has innumerable but definite number of space
