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I am the Soul
knowledge, this was the only path on which they attained knowledge. When the desire to realise the true form of the self occurred, the illusion of body being the soul was removed. When an unwavering faith was inculcated that there is nothing else but 'I am the soul'; that I am not the body, senses, mind, chitta or intellect, only then mithyatva was removed and samyaktva attained. Along with Samyak darshan, then the jnana also became Samyak.
The jiva, in spite of knowing all the substances in the world superficially, is ignorant as long as it does not know its own atma. But one, who has realised the atma, has learnt everything. There is nothing more left to learn. The Bhagavant who composed the scriptures, say –
जे एगं जाणइ से सव्वं जाणइ ।
One, who knows the one, knows all. They never said that you would know the atma, if you knew the entire world. Therefore, one who has realised the atma is a jnani; is a Samyak jnani.
One who has completely eradicated mohaniya and attained Veetaraag state is a sampurna jnani. If someone were to say, 'Our God is omniscient, in spite of having a certain desire and affection', then he is wrong. Desire and omniscience can never be together. The only way of attaining omniscience is the total absence of desire. One, who is able to completely destroy desire, is capable of attaining omniscience.
Therefore, that knowledge which is apurna is Samyak jnana and that which is purna is kevaljnana. The path for attaining both these is the same. At all times those jivas who have attained, who are attaining and who will attain this, will do so only on this path.
Of course, owing to the variation of time and location, the customs may differ, but the transformation within will never be
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