Book Title: Divinity In Jainism Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya Publisher: Devendra Printing and Publishing Co LtdPage 30
________________ 26 instead of admitting one, ever-free, omniscient God, we should hold that every Emancipated Soul is an Omniscient Being. The Emancipated Soul is Omniscient. God is none other than an Omniscient Being, —this is the Jaina theory of God The Mimānsā school of philosophers deny the possibility of Omniscience and of Omniscient Beings They argue as follows. "Neither Pratyaksha, nor Anumāna, nor Āgama, nor Upamāna nor Arthāpatti is competent to prove the possibility of Omniscience. Pratyaksha or direct perception grasps only what is near by. How can all the things, beginning-less, endless, past, future, present, distant, atomic etc, be grasped by Perception ? Accordingly, Omniscience cannot mean Perceptual knowledge of all the things Then again, no Omniscient Being is an object of Pratyaksha or our perception Nor, can we establish an Omniscient Being by Anumāna or Inference Anumana depends on an invariable relationship subsisting between the Mark (Hētu) and the Proven (Sidhya) Here the Proven is 'the Omniscient Being' There is no Mark which has such an invariable rclationship with this Proven, that 'the OmniscientPage Navigation
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