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for integration or co-ordination of knowledge through spiritual approach.”
Accordingly, Dr. Patel deals with Śrīmad's spiritual approach to reality leading to omniscience, namely 'je egam jānai, se savvan jānai' (i.e. He who knows the one, knows all ) in his first chapter of the thesis.
While doing so, he has quoted various definitions of western philosophers regarding the nature, aim and function of philosophy and pointed out that the vision of truth, the ultimate reality and the universe as a whole is the characteristic of philosophy. According to Srīmad also the tattvajñāna or philosophy aims at having the omniscient view of universe, of the whole reality. While the key to omniscience is self-knowledge or selfrealisation, Srimad insists on the doctrine that he who knows the one ( i.e. the self) knows all. Thus if philosophy should embrace the whole of reality, if it is a pursuit of a total view of reality, it is at its best an omniscient view of the universe. Hence Śrīmad's above stated doctrine turns out to be a key to philosophy: So Dr. Patel has tried to justify it from various aspects of philosophy such as epistemological, religious etc..
While considering the epistemological justification
