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PRAVACHANASARA
157 sensuous and unparallelled happiness is supreme and which is a state of disciplinary equanimity and transparent Omniscience.
The soul with pure manifestation, becoming free from Ghalia or destructive Karmas attains Omniscience realizing its own nature and is known as Svayambhu. Phenomenally no substance is free from production, permanence and destruction, while these in the case of an Omniscient are abnormal, that is to say, there is origination without destruction and destruction without origination. It is here that infinite supersensuous happiness—without physical pain or pleasure—and knowledge are developed. In the state of Omniscience everything is directly perceived without sensational stages.
Having physical and superphysical space for its objectivity knowledge is co-extensive with the soul : in case it is more wide it cannot know, being itself insentient and in case it is less in extent how can the whole of the soul be capable of knowledge ? All objects are pervaded by knowledge like the milk, lit up by a gem in it. The Omniscient Jina comprehends everything being all-knowledge himself. The Omniscient soul surpasses space and can comprehend the whole of the objectivity even without physical contact as the eye, the colour. The whole world is reflected in the knowledge of the Omniscient. The knowledge acquired through material words instructed by Jinas helps us to know the self; but the Omniscience itself is more comprehensive than this. The Omniscient soul comprehends instantaneously the objective world in all its varieties, with all its past, present and future modifications unlike the indirect knowledge of senses.
The physical and spiritual activities (such as knowing &c.) of the Omniscient Lord, in whom the Karmas are already destroyed, do not lead to fresh bondage, since they are the spontaneous results of the functioning of karmas and since there is the absence of passions which, when they influence the soul. become the cause of Samsara. Ksayika knowledge is capable of simultaneous comprehension of the whole world, nay every object with its modifications of all times without sensational
stages. Great is its glory! The Omniscient soul though seeing Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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