If the spiritual world is thrice the material world doesnt that make the total creation finite?

From: Jitendra

The scriptures tell us that the material cosmos is one fourth of the entire creation. That means the spiritual cosmos is three fourth of the whole creation. But at the same time, the scriptures also tell us that the total creation is infinite. So, doesn’t the statement that material and spiritual energies are 25% and 75% of the whole cosmos respectively put a boundary condition on the creation, which contradicts the view that the total creation is infinite??…(because we can make parts of only something which is finite)…please guide me on this….

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thank you for you that the total creation is infinite answer not necessarily because there can be gradations within infinity also for example in mathematics it is considered that the set of all numbers all integers is infinite but then the set of all even numbers is also infinite the set of all prime numbers is also infinite now all these three the set of all integers even numbers and prime numbers all three are infinite but are all of them equal not necessarily in the theory of infinite sets it is implicitly understood that integers is greater than the sorry the set of all integers not finite the set of all the all the set of all integers is greater than the set of all even numbers which in turns is greater than the set of all prime numbers and yet all three are infinite so there can be gradations within infinity also as we experience even in mathematical concepts what to speak of transcendental concepts so apart from that when the scriptures do use the word ekapadvibhuti and tripadvibhuti that this material creation is one fourth and the spiritual creation is three fourth whenever the scriptures use figures we have to always understand the figures are to be taken with a proper philosophical understanding they are not simplistic geometric or geographical figures because you can hear the answer to the question of is the size of the soul literal or metaphorical for a more detailed understanding but the important point is that material dimensions don’t apply in a simplistic way to spiritual reality it doesn’t mean that spiritual reality is dimensionless but the whole concept of distance is different over there all dimensions are different over there so this sort of figures it’s not that they are incorrect but they have to be understood in proper context the main point to be conveyed by this figures is that the spiritual world is bigger than the material world and even a 3 is to 1 ratio is it’s significantly big but it is also true that the spiritual world is infinite now if you see the spiritual world is infinite is the material world infinite now Lord Vishnu is called Anantakoti Brahmandanayak Anantakoti means innumerable universes innumerable crores of universes so does that make it infinite certainly Lord Mahavishnu’s body is huge and the number of universes that come out of his body through the pores are also huge they are so large they cannot be conceived by our human mind in that sense they can be said to be infinite so from the material conception for us they are just mind-bogglingly large almost like infinite so now the spiritual world is much greater than that and that is basically meant to give us an idea that the spiritual world is much much greater much much more magnificent and that we need to rather than becoming obsessed with desires in this small temporary miserable material world we need to redirect our desires to the spiritual world so that is the main focus of these dimensions so two points in the answer first is it’s conceptually possible that within infinity there can be gradations also as discussed from the example of mathematics and secondly figures need to be understood very carefully when they are applied to the spiritual realm because the spiritual realm is not simply a geographical or geometrical extension of the material world or even a facsimile of the material world everything there is different and we cannot just apply material distances so whenever any figures are given they are, it’s not that they are incorrect but the primary focus is that they are indicative of certain truths and the truth over here is that if the material world itself is so large then how much larger is the spiritual world so that is the main thing that we need to understand in this relative assignment of dimensions to the material and spiritual world