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जैनसासन उसी प्रकार राग-मोहादि माषक-सामग्रीविहीन आत्माको समस्तः पदायोंको एक ही क्षणमें साक्षात्कार करने में कोई आपत्ति नहीं होती।
सर्वज्ञताक सम्बन्धमे बैज्ञानिक धर्मका अन्वेषण करने में प्रयत्नशील और अन्तमें जनधर्मको स्वीकार करनेवाली अंग्रेज बहिन डॉ. एलिनाशेष फ्रेशरने बड़े सरल शब्दोंमे मार्मिक प्रकाश वाला है । उनका कहना है कि
""सर्वज्ञता विगु आत्माका गुण है । इसे सिद्ध करना सरल बात है। 1. 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 ard properties of substances cannot vars, they are always the same. It is a natural lay that all things Lelonging to the saine species, cla-s, genus etc. have a common mature, Gold, for instance, will always be found to be gold. That is to say, 0110 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 excep tion to the law. Therefore, the properties of the soul—the intelligent substances are alike it every case; so it must be that alt 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 tisnes, for what one soul knows or knew or will ever know, can be known by any other soul. All knowledge acquired by me on in the past can be known by any one living today, Similarly all knowledge Xnown by any onc living and a! the knowledge which will be ever acquired by any knowing living being in the future can be known by every one of us. Thus knowledge of the three periods of times is possible for all. Now can localisation in space set a limit to our knowledge....? that every soul in short is capable of omniscience......? Many things remain uuknown at the present time. That does not mean that it is to be inferred that they will always remain Unknown. It is indisputable that what can never be known buy capable minds engaged in investigating the truth will never be proved to have an existence, and is therefore' non. existant. - A Scientific Interpretation of Christianity, p. 44-45
