Jain Journal 1976 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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Upon which Bhoja raja comments;
yathodesyati savitari pūrvam prabha pradurbhavati tadvadvivekakhyāteh purvam tārakam sarva-vişayam Jñanamabirbhavati
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Just as immediatly before the sun-rise a brilliant glow is visible in the sky, in the same manner just before the rise of viveka-khyāti or consciousness of emancipation, there arises the knowledge, called taraka. Through (To) this taraka knowledge, all things are known.
This taraka is otherwise called the pratibha.
The Stage Penultimate to Liberation and Omniscience: The Sankhya View
The Sankhya school of philosophers attribute to the Yogis or sages, a supernatual mode of perception, in which all things and phenomena of all places and of all times are cognised and they account for it in this way. The Yogis or seers, through their penances and self-perfection attain a power by which they come in direct contact with the Pradhana, the potential basis of all things; as all things evolve from the Pradhana and on their dissolution enter into it, the Pradhana is the real substance in which all phenomena live, move and have their being. By 'seeing' the Pradhana, one sees all things evolving out of it. It is thus that the Yogis being in contact with the universal basis of all things through their supernatural attainment are enabled to perceive all things.
lina-vastu-labdhatisaya-sambandhat
-Sankhya-Sutram, Viṣayadhyāya, 89
The commentator explains,
sat-karya-sthiter naṣṭamapi sva-karaṇe tinam bhutatvenāsti bhavisyadapi sva-kāraṇebhāgatatvenasti-yogajadharmānugrahallabdhātisaya yasya yogina eva pradhāna-sambandhat sarva-diŝakālādi-sambandha iti
The effect is existent in the cause. What is found to perish exists in a potential state in its basal ground. What is future exists in its cause as something not come as yet. On account of their attainment of supernatural power of vision, the Yogi come in contact with the Pradhāna and through this contact, they come in contact with (things of) all places and all times.