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VALIDITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND OMNISCIENCE
ject. Whatever might have been the motive in formulating the theory of kavala-jñāna, it is an integral part of Jaina epistemology.
Kevala jñāna has a super-validity of its own. The pure, perfect and absolute knowledge is like a mirror, which shows the purity and exactitude of knowledge, without any distinction or confusion and the absence of any effort, mental or sensorial. In it are reflected distinctly and simultaneously, all permanent and changing aspects, past, present and future of all objects which exist individually or collectively. “Ever free from obstruction, fully absorbed in one's own self, the supreme Soul is effulgent, like the sky, in the highest stage. 9 4
94 Amrtacandra, Puruşārtha-siddhyu pāya, 223.
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