Jainthology

SR No.: 006577
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ganesh Lalwani
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 294
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 8 MB

Page 75

Exactly! You see, hearing what you say he said about it, it's like I know exactly what he means, that I know he's been through this same thing I have. And, yet... the words I would use are different, because there really are no words I cannot describe it.
You could not compare it to anything here. The terms I'm using to describe it are so far from the thing, but it's the best I can do... Because this is a place where the place is knowledge... knowledge and information are readily available - all know ledge... You absorb knowledge You all of a sudden know the answer... It's like you focus mentally on one place in that school and - zoom-knowledge flows by you from that place, automatically. It's just like you'd had about a dozen speed reading course...
And I know verbatim what this man is talking about, but, you see, I'm just putting the same consciousness into my own words which are differents
I go on seeking knowledge ; Seek and ye shall fiind". You can get the knowledge for yourself. But I pray for wisdom, wisdom more than all...
A middle-aged lady described it in this way :
There was a moment in this thing - well, there isn't any way to describe it- but it was like I knew all things... For a moment, there, it was like communication wasn't necessary. I thought whatever I wanted to know could be known,13
These statements by the subject sound like an experiential account of what may have been philosophically described in the following manner :
The jiva's relation to matter explains also the somewhat peculiar Jaina view of knowledge. Knowledge is not something that characterizes the jīva. It constitutes its very essence. The jiva can therefore know unaided everything directly and exactly as
13 Ibid., pp. 13-14
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