Then, due to the infinitude of knowledge free from all coverings and impurities, the knowable becomes small.

With afflictions and karma eliminated, knowledge reveals itself in its infinite nature (ānantya). There are no longer āvaraṇa (coverings) or mala (impurities) limiting it.

Before this infinitude, all that can be known (jñeya) appears as alpa, small, insignificant. It is not that the world shrinks, but that perspective has radically changed.

The limited mind sees the world as vast and ungraspable. Liberated consciousness sees that the entire domain of the knowable—past, present, and future—is barely a small portion of its infinite capacity to know.

It is like one who has always lived in a dark room and finally steps into the sun. The room hasn’t changed, but now seems tiny compared to unlimited space.

This sutra conveys something of liberation’s flavor: an expansion so radical that everything seeming important reveals itself as tiny before the vastness of being.