Sequence is the correlate of moments, apprehensible at the end of transformation.

This technical sutra analyzes the nature of time and sequence. Krama (sequence) exists as correlate (pratiyogin) of kṣaṇa (moments).

Time is not an independent substance but the succession of moments marked by changes. Where there is no change, there is no time. Sequence is only fully understood when transformation concludes.

Aparānta means “at the end.” Only when a series of changes ends can we understand its complete structure. While in the middle of the process, we see only fragments.

For the liberated yogī, who has transcended temporal flow, the entire sequence of transformations becomes comprehensible. From outside time, they can see time as totality.

This sutra suggests our ordinary understanding of time is partial because we are immersed in it. Liberation offers a perspective from which time itself becomes object of knowledge, not prison of experience.