Samaya 4 · the whole universe
Loka-pūraṇa
लोकपूरण
The fourth samaya: the interstices fill, and one soul occupies every space-point of the universe at once - its innumerable pradeśas on the loka's innumerable pradeśas, one to one. For one samaya the soul is the size of everything.
This is the only circumstance in which a single soul is coextensive with the Loka. The count is exact and the texts insist on it: a soul has asaṃkhyāta space-points, the loka has asaṃkhyāta space-points, and they are the same asaṃkhyāta. Nothing is stretched; every point of the soul has a point of the universe under it.
The view opens here, because this is the samaya to see. Step back and forward to watch the churn become the universe and the universe become the churn. It lasts one Samaya.
Measurements and counts
| State after samaya | 4 |
|---|---|
| Extent | every space-point of the loka |
| The count | asaṃkhyāta soul-points on asaṃkhyāta loka-points, one each |
| Yoga | kārmaṇa |
| Intake | none |