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Pravacanasāra
भूत-भविष्यत-वर्तमान काल की अनन्त पर्यायों सहित छह द्रव्य हैं उसको लोक, और इस लोक से बाहर अकेला आकाश उसको अलोक जानना। इन्हीं दोनों - लोक-अलोक - को ज्ञेय कहते हैं। [तस्मात् ] इसलिये [ ज्ञानं तु] ज्ञान तो [ सर्वगतम् ] सर्वगत अर्थात् सर्वव्यापक है, इससे ज्ञान ज्ञेय के बराबर है।
The soul (ātmā) is coextensive with knowledge (jñāna). Lord Jina has expounded that knowledge (jñāna) 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.
Explanatory Note: 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 (jñāna) is coextensive with the objects-ofknowledge (jñeya). All six substances (dravya), with their infinite modes (paryāya) of the past, the present and the future, in the universe (loka) and the infinite space (ākāśa) in the non-universe (aloka) beyond it, are the objects-of-knowledge (jñeya).
णाणप्पमाणमादा ण हवदि जस्सेह तस्स सो आदा। हीणो वा अधिगो वा णाणादो हवदि धुवमेव ॥1-24॥ हीणो जदि सो आदा तण्णाणमचेदणं ण जाणादि । अधिगो वा णाणादो णाणेण विणा कहं जाणादि ॥1-25॥
__(जुगलं)
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