________________ Pancastikaya-samgraha chalmatia IR HT&T - kevalajnana and moksa The soul established in pure-cognition (suddhopayoga) attains, on destruction of the four inimical karmas, omniscience (kevalajnana) that knows fully all objects of the three times the past, the present, and the future). The nature of the soul is knowledge, and knowledge is coextensive with the objects-of-knowledge (jneya); knowledge pervades the objects-of-knowledge. Since the objects-of-knowledge are all objects of the three worlds and the three times, it follows that omniscience, the fruit of pure-cognition (suddhopayoga), knows all objects of the three worlds and the three times. Acarya Umasvami's Tattvarthasutra: मोहक्षयाज्ज्ञानदर्शनावरणान्तरायक्षयाच्च केवलम् // (10-1) Omniscience or perfect knowledge - kevalajnana - is attained on destruction of delusion (moha), and on destruction of knowledgecovering (jnanavarana), perception-covering (darsanavarana) and obstructive (antaraya) karmas. Acarya Amotacandra's Purusarthasiddhyupaya: तज्जयति परं ज्योतिः समं समस्तैरनन्तपर्यायैः / दर्पणतल इव सकला प्रतिफलति पदार्थमालिका यत्र // 1 // Victory to the Supreme Effulgence (omniscience - the infinite and all-embracing knowledge) that images, as it were in a mirror, all substances and their infinite modes, extending through the past, the present, and the future. The soul established in its Pure Self (through suddhopayoga) attains omniscience (kevalajnana) without the help of or reliance on any outside agency (such a soul is appropriately termed self-dependent or svayambhu). Intrinsically possessed of infinite knowledge and energy, the soul, depending on the self, performs the activity of attaining its infinite knowledge-character and, therefore, the soul is the doer (karta). The soul's concentration on its own knowledge-character is the activity; the soul, therefore, is the activity (karma). Through its own knowledgecharacter the soul attains omniscience and, therefore, the soul is the . .. . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . XL
