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Niyamasāra
नियमसार
व्यवहारनय से केवली भगवान् लोकालोक को जानते हैं - Empirically, the Omniscient Lord knows the universe and the non-universe - लोयालोयं जाणइ अप्पाणं णेव केवली भगवं । जइ कोइ भणइ एवं तस्स य किं दूसणं होइ ॥१६९॥
(व्यवहारनय से) केवली भगवान् लोकालोक को जानते हैं, आत्मा को नहीं; यदि कोई ऐसा कहे तो उसे क्या दोष है? (अर्थात् दोष नहीं है।)
What is wrong if someone says that the Omniscient Lord knows the universe (loka) and the non-universe (aloka), not the soul (ātmā)? (There is no contradiction.)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The statement that the Omniscient Lord knows the universe (loka) and the non-universe (aloka) relies on the empirical-point-of-view (vyavahāranaya). In an earlier gāthā (see gāthā 166, p. 279, ante), it has been said that the Omniscient Lord sees only the soul's ownnature (svabhāva) and not the universe (loka) and the non-universe (aloka). This statement relies on the real, transcendental-point-ofview (niscayanaya). Holistic, valid-knowledge - pramāņa – validates both, the empirical (vyavahāra) and the transcendental (niscaya), points-of-view (naya) as long as each is considered as partial and relative. Thus, although the Omniscient Lord has infinite knowledge that knows directly, without gradation, every object-of-knowledge (jñeya), including the soul (ātmā), it is not wrong to say that he knows the universe (loka) and the non-universe (aloka). That the Omniscient Lord knows simultaneously all substances and their infinite modes (paryāya) in the universe (loka) and the nonuniverse (aloka), has been highlighted in various Scriptural compositions:
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