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THE SCOPE OF DIRECT KNOWLEDGE
regard to matter, the range of clairvoyance is limited to certain modes alone according to its potency and does not extend to all modes of matter. In order to determine this ‘asarvaparyāyeşu' is supplied. What is the scope of telepathy? तदनन्तभागे मनःपर्ययस्य
11 26 | Tadanantabhāge manaħparyayasya (28) 28. The scope of telepathy is the infinitesimal part of the matter ascertained by clairvoyance.
Telepathy ascertains the infinitesimal part of the matter ascertained by the highest clairvoyance (sarvāvadhi). What is the range of omniscience mentioned last?
सर्वद्रव्यपर्यायेषु केवलस्य
Sarvadravyaparyāyeşu kevalasya (29) 29. Omniscience (kevala jñana) extends to all entities (substances) and all their modes simultaneously.
Dravyāņi and paryāyāḥ are dravyaparyāyāḥ. The attributive 'sarva' is added to each-sarvesu dravyeșu, sarveşu paryāyeşu. First the souls are infinite times infinite. The forms of matter are still more infinite times infinite. Atoms and molecules are the divisions of matter. The medium of motion, the medium of rest and space are three substances. Time is innumerable. The modes of each of these, extending through the past, the present and the future, are infinite times infinite. And there is nothing, either substance or mode, which does not come within the purview of omniscience. It is mentioned that all substances and all modes come within its purview in order to indicate the boundless virtue of omniscience.
The range of perceptual cognition etc. has been described. But it has not been mentioned how many kinds of knowledge arising from their instrumental causes can dwell simultaneously in one soul.
एकादीनि भाज्यावि युगपदेकस्मिन्नाचतुभ्यः !1 30 11 Ekādini bhajyāni yngapadekasminnücaturbhyaḥ (30)
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