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74 • A Reservoir of Infinite Power
15. Knower and Knowable (Parinamya - Parinam) - The soul is a knower as it knows both the self and other objects. Further, both the self and other objects can be known or are knowable. The soul cannot do anything in other objects and the latter cannot cause anything in the former but it knows both the self and other objects. The soul can only exert for the self and not for others. The soul itself is a body of knowledge and hence knower of the self and others. In the knowledge of the self, knowable objects are contextually present and therefore, self is knowable by others.
To know the knowables is the power of the self and the self does not know due to the presence or absence of knowables. For example, speech is knowable and the power to interpret it is due to the knowledge of the self and not due to the speech. The soul knows/understands without speech. The soul knows in the state of omniscience the infinite souls and that soul is also knowable in the state of knowledge of infinite souls.
One who understands this property will not doubt whether he can know himself?”. One who thinks that a soul knows only the other objects and not the self does not know the nature of the soul. The soul knows the movement of physical body or occurrence of disease in a body but cannot move the body or remove the disease by itself. Yet, it has immense power of knowledge and there is no object in the universe hidden from the pure soul. The power of the soul is to “lighten the self and all the rest” and this enables the soul to know the self completely as well as to know the universe also completely. No extra effort is required to know the universe.
