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with something to which it had remained irresponsive hitherto; and, finally, when all the perception and knowledge-obstructing bonds of karma are destroyed, omniscience is attained by the potential becoming the actual.
CHAPTER X.
Knowledge illumines itself as well as its object at the same time, that is to say that in knowing anything the soul also knows itself simultaneously. If the soul did not know its own existence, nobody else could ever impart that knowledge to it, since instruction from without can never take the place of the feeling of awareness of one's own presence which is implied in self-knowledge. Besides, every one's experience will show that the one thing of which he is the most definitely and forcibly conscious is his own being.
Furthermore, every act of perception, and, in general, every kind of knowledge, implies the statement, 'I know it thus,' whether or not the state of consciousness expressed by the words be actually translated into thought, or word, or both. It is to be noted that unless appropriated by the soul, knowledge would be reduced to the condition of an image in glass which is not cognized by the thing in which it is reflected. If the soul were
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