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THE ESSENCE OF JAINA SCRIPTURES
the object with an occurrence in the same time and the object with an occurrence in past or future time, and knows them in all directions completely, although they possess a variety (vaichitrya), showing itself in separateness, individual, accidental, and manifested in several forms, and a dissimilarity (vaishamya), accentuated by mutual opposition and called forth by their generic differences.
To this knowledge are simultaneously (tulya-kalam) revealed the multitude of objects coexistent and the multitude of objects belonging to another time, because of the total absence of knowledge-obscuring (jnanavaraniya) karmic matter in the destructional-subsidential state, 12 which is the cause of the coming forth in succession.
And (these multitudes of contemporary and not contemporary objects) are revealed (to the soul) in every direction, inasmuch as it is purified in every respect, whilst the purification in a limited respect is merged therein.
And all objects are revealed to it, because, as all obscuring karmans perish, the partially-obscuring destructional-subsidential condition (of karmans) no longer persists.
Objects, even various, are revealed, because, as the karman which obscures omniform knowledge perishes, the destructional-subsidential condition of karman which obscures non-omniform knowledge is dissolved.
Objects, even dissimilar, are revealed because, as the karman which obscures heterogenous knowledge perishes, the destructionalsubsidential condition of karman which obscures homogeneous knowledge is on the decline.
But enough of over-elaboration: knowledge due-to-the-annihilationof-karman (kshayika) necessarily knows everything everywhere at every time and in every respect; for it abounds in illumination whose coming forth is unchecked.
Now he certifies that one who does not know everything does not know even one thing:
48. He who does not know simultaneously the objects located in the three worlds (heavens, hells and earth) and three times is not capable of knowing even one substance with all its modifications.
There is one space-substance, one substance called the principle of motion, one substance called the principle of stationariness, innumerable time-substances in every infinitesimal-particle of space
