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doctrine of Omniscience. The eye has the power of seeing things. At the deep darkness of a midnight, this power remains latent; but at the advent of dawn when the nightly darkness is removed by the beaming light of the smiling eastern sky, the obstacles which obscured the visualising power of the eye are removed and the eye is consequently once 'more enabled to see all things The same thing happens in the case of the Soul The Soul has the power of knowing all the things of the universe,-Omniscience is its very nature. But Owing to the influence of the knowledgeobscuring Karmas, this power of Omniscience remains inactive in the Soul from the beginningless time. When through right penances etc., these Karma-obstacles are radically removed, what wonder is there that the soul would be in its true nature of Omniscience? Now, the question is, whether the Soul has really this nature or essence viz., Omniscience That the Soul is capable of knowing all the things is apparent from the fact that it can form judgments of 'Pervasion' (Vyaptı) 2.e, inductive truths of general application. Even the Mimansakas would admit that the knowledge of Pervasion consists in a sort of knowledge of things of the past, the
