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have been accepted as facts, Even psychologists like McDougall are inclined to believe that extra-sensory perception like clairvoyance, telepathy and fore-knowledge seems in a fair way established.'11 Prof. H. H. Price says that evidence for clairvoyance and telepathy is abundant and good'.112 Prof. Richet admits that telepathic experiences certainly exist.118 Dr. Rhine has done good work in extra-sensory perception. He says that extra-sensory perception in the form of clairvoyance and telepathy is an actual and demonstrable occurrence. It is not a sensory phenomenon.114
Kevala: According to the Jainas the soul, in its pure form is pure consciousness and knowledge. It is omniscient. But it is obscured by the karmas as the moon or the sun is liable to be obscured by the veil of dust, fog or a patch of cloud. '16 When such a veil of karma is removed omniscience dawns. That is kevala jñāna. That is a stage of perfect knowledge and a stage of kaivalya.
Omniscience intuits all substances with all their modes. '16 Nothing remains unknown in omniscience. It is knowledge of all substances and modes of the past, present and the future, all in one. It is lasting and eternal It is transcendental and pure. It is the perfect manifestation of the pure and the real nature of the soul, when the obstructive veils of Karma are removed.'17 This omniscience is coexistent with the supreme state ‘of absolute clarity of life monad'. This is precisely the release. 146 No longer is the monad dimmed with the beclodding passion but open and free and unlimited by the particular
111. Riddle of Life by William McDougall, p. 235. 112. Philosophy, October 1950. 113. Thirty Years of Psychical Research by Richet, pp. 23-24. 114. Extra-sensory Perception by Rhine, p. 222. 115, Pramāņa Mimāmsā, 1, 15 and commentary. 116. Tattvärtha Sūtra, 130, with Essays also A vas yaka Niryukti, 77. 117. Philosophies of India, Zimmer, p. 251. 118. Ibid.
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