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___ "सर्वज्ञता विशुद्ध आत्माका गुण है। इसे सिद्ध करना सरल बात है। इसका मूल आधार इतर विज्ञानोके समान प्रकृतिकी एकविधता ( =Uniformity of Nature) Isofa afarisit Fuller पदार्थोके गुण-धर्म नही बदलते, वे सदा वैसे ही रहते है। यह प्रकृतिका नियम है कि एकजातीय पदार्थोमे सर्व-अनुगत-समान धर्म पाया जाता है। जैसे सोना सदा 'सोना' रूप हीमे पाया जाता है। इसका तात्पर्य यह
The argument that proves omniscience to be an attribute of the pure soul is very simple It is based on the uniformity of nature, as all science is Nature is constant, so that the attributes and properties of substances cannot vary, they are always the same. It is a natural law that all things belonging to the same species, class, genus etc have a common nature Gold, for instance, will always be found to be gold. That is to say, one piece of gold is always like any other piece of gold. There are no difference in the pure matter This is the case with all substances The soul being a substance cannot be an exception to the law Therefore, the properties of the soul—the intelligent substances are alike in every case; so it must be that all souls are alike in respect of their knowing capacity This is tantamount to saying that every soul has within itself the ability to manifest the entirety of knowledge. The soul can know all things and all conditions of things, of all places, of all times, for what one soul knows or knew or will ever know, can be known by any other soul. All knowledge acquued by me on in the past can be known by any one living today Similarly all knowledge known by
