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SUTRAS
THE KEY TO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
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We do not experience omniscience through our mind, because the mind cannot direct its attention to a multitude of simultaneous events and objects.
Omniscience is not caused by any external means; - it is the complete unfoldment of our consciousness by itself.
As soon as we reach omniscience, we cease to experience the other four types of knowledge. We remain subject to them only as long as our consciousness is limited by karma.
As long as we are influenced by time (kala), we experience the world as a chain of events that lead us to ever deeper and more comprehensive insights. While in the first twelve stages of development, new insights therefore appear to us like the end-result of a sequence of events.
Yet a time of emergence of an insight only exists in those stages of development that are below omniscience. In the state of omniscience our consciousness ceases to be influenced by time. Concepts like 'consecutive', simultaneous' or 'sequence' do not apply any more and there is no 'evolution' of insights as we know it presently.
Here ends the description of the range and character of knowledge - i.e. which regions of our consciousness the five channels give us access to.
SUTRA 30 एकादीनि भाज्यानि युगपदेकस्मिन्नाचतुर्यः ॥ ३० ॥ Ekadini bhajyani yugapade kasminna chaturbhyah (30) One up to four channels of knowledge can be active simultaneously. (30)
We can experience one up to four channels of knowledge simultaneously, but never more than four.
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