Jain Journal 1990 07

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

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Upon which Bhojaraja comments,
yathodeşyati savitari pũrvam prabhā pradurbhavati tadvadivekakhyāteh pūrvam tārakam sarva-viṣayam jnanamābirbhavati
Just as immediately 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 tāraka through (to) this tāraka 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 supernatural 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 yogi's being in contact with the universal basis of all things through their supernatural attainment are enabled to perceive all things.
lina-vastu-labdhātiśaya-sambandhāt
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-Sānkhya-Sūtram, Viṣayādhyāya, 89
The commentator explains,
sat-karya-sthiter naṣṭamapi sva-kāraṇe tinam bhūtatvenāsti. bhabisva-karanehnāgatatvenāsti-yogajadharmānugrahallabdhätisa
şyadapi yasya yogina eva pradhana-sambandhāt sarva-diśakālādi-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 yogis come in contact with the Pradhana and through this contact, they come in contact with (things of) all places and all times.