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## Karika 5
The karma-mala, which is in the form of both substance and emotion, is completely destroyed. Just as gold, bound by impurities like soot, becomes free from all external and internal impurities and transforms into its pure gold form by obtaining suitable means like fire, similarly, the bhavya jiva, bound by karma-mala, becomes free from it completely by the power of suitable means like samyag-darshan, and transforms into its pure atma form. Therefore, it is not impossible for a particular person to completely lose their faults and their causes. The person who completely loses these faults and coverings is the apt, or the faultless, omniscient, and the world-teacher.
The omniscient state is directly perceived, just as the subtle, the distant, and the hidden are perceived. The omniscient state is inferred, just as fire is inferred.
(If it is said that even after the complete loss of faults and coverings, a person cannot directly know all things related to the past and future, all present things that are very distant, and all subtle things, then that is not correct; because) subtle things like atoms, which are different in nature, distant things like Rama and Ravana, which are separated by time, and distant things like Mount Meru and the Himalayas, which are separated by space, are all inferable (the subject of inference or proof) and therefore are directly perceived by someone.
1. The subject of proof is called 'pramaya'. According to the statement of Vasunanda Acharya, 'anumeya' means 'those who are to be known by inference are 'anumeya' and 'pramaya'. Thus, the reason for 'anumeya' is also implied in the reason for 'pramaya'.