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48 • A Reservoir of Infinite Power
This property manifests itself the moment a soul recognises its timeless and indivisible nature in its fullest or perfect sense. The power of vision recognises both self and other objects at the same time, but while seeing, these two are not recognised differently as one is the ‘self and the other thing is ‘other object. It does not recognise self only or other objects only. Along with the pure self, it recognises the existence of all other objects as well. That is the real function of this property. A person who does not know the pure self, may also see other objects in general but that is not the manifestation of this property. That is a blind-vision and reflects absence of knowledge of the pure self. Here, there is no reference to seeing with feelings of distortions, perversions, aversions, greed, lust, anger, etc., because the pure self does not have any such property.
To discriminate between objects, their forms, properties, etc., is the function of the knowledge. It is knowledge about objects that results in discrimination as to what is it that belongs to the self and what does not belong to it. This ‘pure knowledge' distinguishes from general to particular or special: 'I am a pure self’-such recognition is the operation of the property of knowledge. An ordinary self first recognises or sees objects in general and then follows the operation of knowledge property where the discrimination of objects takes place. That is, there is a gap of time between operation of two properties. When a person first looks at the object, the object is merely recognised as existent in general due to this vision power. After which, one may distinguish the objects and its properties due to the property of knowledge. However, in the state of omniscience, both operate simultaneously without any time gap.
The divine vision is obstructed when a soul is engrossed with worldly objects. This blocking of divine vision takes
