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## A Praiseworthy Description of the State of a Tirthankara After Liberation
**Yoga Shastra, Third Light, Verse 123**
The Lord is free from that strange bondage of karma, He is accomplished, His work is completely perfected. But to consider the merging of the world-creator into Brahman as perfection does not constitute the perfection of the liberated soul. Because, according to their view, Brahman again creates the world, therefore the work of the soul's perfection remains incomplete. Not only that, but in the creation of the world, making one inferior and another superior, attachment and aversion are also established in Brahman; because how can the state of beings with happiness and sorrow be created without attachment and aversion? The idea that someone merges (unites) with someone else is also illogical; because if that happens, then the existence of that soul is extinguished, it is completely absent. For this reason, the idea of merging with the world-creator is based on ignorance. Therefore, it is proven that the soul of a Tirthankara is itself free from karma, in the same way, it also liberates other souls (by inspiring them) from the bondage of karma. Therefore, the Lord is himself liberated and liberates others. In this way, the Lord, being the conqueror and the one who makes others conquer attachment and aversion, the liberator and the one who makes others liberate, the knower and the one who gives knowledge, the liberated and the one who liberates others, is like himself, a giver of happiness to others. In this way, from these four aspects, the eighth wealth is called 'the one who gives fruit to others like himself'.
Now, those who believe that 'knowledge arises from the yoga of intellect', the Sankhya philosophers do not consider the Lord to be omniscient and all-seeing. They say that 'Buddhyadhwavasitam artha purushashchetayate', meaning that the soul knows only the meaning that is considered by the intellect. This means that the soul itself cannot be a knower and seer; but only through the determination that takes place through the intellect can it know the object. Refuting their belief, it is said - 'Savvannunam Savvadarisinam', meaning that He knows all things, He is omniscient, and He sees all, He is all-seeing. Salutations to such an omniscient and all-seeing Lord.
The nature of the soul is to know and see itself, but due to the veil of karma, it cannot use its own nature. When the veil of karma is removed, the soul, through its own nature of knowledge and vision, knows and sees all things. It is also said that the soul is itself naturally pure like the moon, the knowledge of the soul is like the moonbeams. Just as clouds cover the moon, so too do karmic clouds cover the living being. And it is not the case that knowledge does not arise without the cause of the soul's intellect. In reality, the cause is useful only until the effect is achieved, after that, it is not needed. The karmic veil of the living being, as long as it does not break, as long as the cause of the intellect is needed, but after the complete breaking of the veil, the knowledge of the soul naturally manifests itself; the intellect is of no use to it. For one who does not have the power to swim, a boat etc. is useful; but for one who has manifested the power to swim, a boat etc. is not needed. Similarly, the Lord's innate qualities of knowledge and vision are fully manifested, so He does not need intellect, He can know and see everything without it. Therefore, He is omniscient and all-seeing without the cause of intellect.
Others also say that knowledge tells the specific qualities of all things and vision tells the general qualities. Therefore, since they are not the subject of each other, it is not appropriate to say 'He knows everything and He sees everything'. Perhaps it is reasonable to say that knowledge and vision together can know or see everything. The statement that knowledge cannot know or see independently is also not reasonable, because in reality, there is no difference between the general and the specific. The object that has the general quality also has the specific quality. That is, the object that has the general and specific qualities, its object-like quality is the basis (dharmi) of both, and from this, the living being knows and sees the same quality through the nature of knowledge in the form of a relationship and through the nature of vision in the form of a general form. Because all things become the subject of knowledge and vision.
Here again, there is doubt that knowledge shows the specific relational quality of all things, but it does not show the general quality inherent in them, and vision shows the general quality in all things, but it does not show the specific relational quality inherent in them. Each of these two does not know both qualities; rather, it knows only one quality from both qualities. But those who believe that the knower of one quality is the omniscient knower, and the seer of one quality is the all-seeing seer, this is inappropriate. The answer to this is given as follows: 'It is not true to say this;