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**Description of the Six Substances and Five Astikayas**
**Now, the argument:** You have stated that the absence of omniscience is a fault. What is the proof for the existence of omniscience?
**The proof is stated here:** Omniscience exists, as explained earlier, because there is no proof to contradict it, just like the experience of happiness, sorrow, etc., which are self-evident.
**Or, a second proof is stated through inference:** The object of inference is that any particular person, whose nature is subtle, distant, in the past, in the future, or different, is perceived.
**Why?** Because it is the subject of inference. Whatever is the subject of inference is perceived by someone, just like fire, etc. These are the subjects of inference, therefore they are perceived by someone.
**Whatever is not perceived by someone is not the subject of inference, just like flowers in the sky, etc. These are not the subjects of inference, therefore they are not perceived by someone.**
**Therefore, they are perceived by someone.**
**In short, this is the proof for the existence of omniscience. A detailed explanation of the refutation of the arguments against omniscience, which are not valid, contradictory, and not conclusive, is given elsewhere in the detailed explanation of omniscience. Here, it is not mentioned because this is a spiritual text.**
**The meaning is that this very form of the omniscient, free from attachment, is to be contemplated as constantly attainable by the abandonment of all attachments, etc.**
**Thus, these two verses explain the concept of omnipotence as the main point.**
**Hindi Commentary on Verse 29:**
**The first verse states that the knowledge and vision of the liberated soul is free from all limitations. This verse further supports this by stating "Jado hi sayam" (He is himself).**
**Meaning with Anvaya:** (If that) soul (sayam) itself (savinh) is omniscient (y) and (savvalokadarsi) sees all the worlds (jado) being (anatam) without limitations, (avyabadham) without obstacles, (sagam) arising from its own self, and (amutt) formless (suh) happiness (pappodi) attains or experiences.
**Special Meaning:** This soul, even though it possesses the nature of pure knowledge, pure vision, and supreme happiness, is covered by karma in the state of the world. It gradually knows through the knowledge of the cessation of the senses, which is the knowledge of the senses. It sees through the vision of the eyes and the vision of the mind. It experiences the limited, dependent, and formless happiness that arises from the senses. When the soul, which is conscious, becomes itself omniscient and all-seeing due to the attainment of time, etc., it experiences the formless happiness that is free from the limitations of the senses and is dependent on the self. Here, the statement that this soul becomes itself omniscient and all-seeing supports the fact that it is already free from limitations and is omniscient and all-seeing.
**Here, someone who follows the Charvaka philosophy might say that there is no omniscience because no one is seen. Just like the horns of a donkey are not seen?**