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TRANSLATION OF.
[I, 2323. The soul is co-extensive with knowledge; knowledge is said to be co-extensive with the objects of knowledge; the object of knowledge comprises the physical and non-physical universe; therefore knowledge is omnipresent." . 24-25. He, who does not admit the soul to be co-extensive with knowledge, must indeed concede that the soul is either smaller or larger than knowledge. If the soul is smaller, the knowledge, being insentient, cannot know; if larger, how can it know in the absence of knowledge ?
26. The great Jina is everywhere and all the objects in the world are within him, since the Jina is an embodiment of knowledge and since they are the objects of knowledge.
27. The doctrine of Jina is that knowledge is the self and in the absence of the self there cannot be (any) knowledge;, therefore, knowledge is the self, while the self is knowledge or anything else.
28. The knower has knowledge for his nature and all the objects are within the range of the knowledge, just as the objects of sight are within the ken of the eye, though there is no mutual inherence.
29. The knower, who is beyond sense-perception, necessarily knows and sees the whole world neither entering into nor entered into by the objects of knowledge," just as the eye sees the objects of sight.
30. The knowledge operates on the objects, just as a sapphire, thrown in the milk, pervades the whole of it with its lustre.
31. If those objects are not within the knowledge, knowledge cannot be all-pervasive; the knowledge is all-pervasive, how then objects are not existing in it?
32. The omniscient lord neither accepts nor abandons, nor transforms the external objectivity; he sees all around, and knows everything completely.
33. He, who clearly understands the self as of the nature of the knower on the authority of the scriptural knowledge, is called a śruta-keyalin by the sages that enlighten the world.
1. See II. 36, 44, 53 etc. infra.
2. I have taken na pravistah na āvistah as against the commentators who take na avistaḥ (na apraviştaḥ).
