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the glory of pure consciousness and its manifestation". Further he has written in verse 47 annotations.
Samantabhadra in “Aptamīmārsā", Amitagati in Yogasāra, Akalanka in "Astašati" and Vidyānanda in "Aştasahasri" have established the principles of omniscience at large. As a matter of fact the existence of "omniscient being" is the main topic of Jaina logic and the whole logical thought is dedicated to the establishment of the concept of an omniscient.
The people with preserve attitude think that the independence of substances is deprived by fixing futurity as definite, but they forget that if further is taken for granted as take uncertain, the astrology, astronomy will be proved imaginary, when solar-eclipse, lunar-eclipse etc. will take place this can not be foretold the Jaina philosophy is full of definite declarations of further events which will happen lacs of years afterwards. All those declarations are very emphatic in their assertions of futurity. In words, they are like this - "Things will happen like this only and not otherwise. If we deny the certainly of futurity in the omniscient being we will have to deny whole of the Jaina Scriptures?! But before things any such wrong step, I would like to request the eager seekers of truth to ponder over coolly, calmly as it is a great principal of sequence bound modifications of all the substances. They may have a natural cause-and-effect-relationship in between them, yet the omniscient knows simultaneously all the events of futurity as well as all the events of the past.
Once a true aspirant of liberation attains omniscience, he never loses it again. It is the fullest form of manifestation knowledge attribute of soul. There are no different degrees of omniscience. It is not caused by any eternal means. It is the complete enfoldment of our consciousness by itself. In the state of omniscience the consciousness ceases to be influenced by time etc. eternal causes whereas in the first twelve stages of spiritual development, i.e., is the state of non-omniscient the consciousness gets influenced by time etc. The omniscience is regarded as “All comprehensive Channel" of knowledge because it is characterized by the absence of Karmic bonds. In case of non-omniscient beings there are many different degrees of knowledge (knowing-activity) varying from minimum two types to maximum four types of imperfect knowledge.
Some scholars may argue to how great Kundakunda has written in Niyamasāra that the omniscient god knows and sees all (the substances with their all modifications) from the
"Tattva-Pradipika by Amrtacandra, Verse 200
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STUDY NOTES version 5.0
| SR No. | 007712 |
| Book Title | ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | International School for Jain Studies |
| Publisher | International School for Jain Studies |
| Publication Year | 2012 |
| Total Pages | 404 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 13 MB |