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PRAVACANASĀRA. . 15. He, who has manifested pure consciousness and is free from
(knowledge, and conation-) obscuring, obstructive and deluding Karmic dust,+ hås become self-sufficient; and fully comprehends the objects of knowledge.
- 16. The omniscient, who has realised his nature and is worshipped by the lords of all worlds, becomes self-sufficient; and he is called Svayambhū.
17. Further, he represents a condition of the collocation of permanence, origination and destruction; though therein the origination is without destruction and the destruction devoid of origination.
18, In fact, every entity is characterised by 'existence; and it is with regard to only one aspect that every object suffers origination and destruotion.
19. He develops knowledge and happiness after having exhausted the destructive Karmas, being endowed with excellent infinite strength and excessive lustre and after becoming supersensuous.
*1. The miseries of those beings, that have faith in him who is the best among all things and who is respected by the foremost among gods and demons, are exhausted.8
20. In the case of the omniscient, the pleasure or pain is not physical, because he is endowed with supersensuousness: so it should be known.
21. The omniscient who develops knowledge directly visualizes all objects and their modifications; he does never comprehend them through the sensational stages such as outlinear grasp.
22. Nothing is indirect to him who is himself ever omniscient and who is all-round rich in the qualities of all the organs of senses though himself beyond the senses.
1. See note on I, 1. 2. Compare P. 11.
3. The gāthâs which are marked with an asterisk are not recognised in Amrtacandra's commentary, but they are treated as a regular part of the text by Jayasena; such verses are serially numbered with an asterisk.
4. The sense-perception, being not immediate, has four stages : avagraha; outlinear grasp; iho, consideration or discrimination; avāya, judgement, dhāraņā, retention of the judgement. Such stages are not present when omniscience is functioning. TS. I, 15.
