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शुद्धोपयोग अधिकार
12 - THE PURE-COGNITION हैं। इसलिये ज्ञान तो सर्वगत अर्थात् सर्वव्यापक है, इससे ज्ञान ज्ञेय के बराबर
The soul (ātmā) is coextensive with knowledge (ñana). Lord Jina has expounded that knowledge (ñana) is coextensive with the objects-of-knowledge (jñeya). All objects of the universe (loka) and beyond (aloka) are the objects-of-knowledge (jñeya). Therefore, knowledge is all-pervasive (sarvagata or sarvavyāpaka); it knows everything.
The substance (dravya) is coextensive with its qualities (guņa) and modes (paryāya). Gold is coextensive with its mode of earring or bangle, also with its quality of yellowness. Therefore, the soul (ātmā) must be coextensive with its quality of knowledge (jñāna). Just as the fire in the fuel is coextensive with the fuel, knowledge Gñana) is coextensive with the objects-of-knowledge (jñeya). If knowledge (jñāna) is unable to know the soul (ātmā) it will become non-functional - like the axe without the axeman. Knowledge (jñāna) will then become distinct from the soul (ātmā). And the fallout of such a proposition is that knowledge (jñāna) must lose its power to know!
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