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श्रीमद् विजयराजेन्द्रसूरि-स्मारक-प्रंथ " Abhraka-Vyavahitamiva yada bhavyamānam Vastu paśyati, Sā prakarga-paryantávastha. "-Nyaya-vindu-tika.
The object when sun in Yögi-pratyaksa' is like a small fruit in one's hand, perceived in the perfect and the clearest possible manner.
"Karatalamalakavadbhávyamānasyarthasya yaddarśanam tadyõginah pratyakşam, taddhi sphutabham. ---Nyaya-vindu.-tikā.
As a result of this uncommon perception, peculiar to a sage, the objects of the universe were apprehended by Buddha and saints like him, like the Amalaka-fruit in hand' and they succeeded in attaining Omniscience.
The Liberated State and Omniscience :
The Nonadvaita Vēdānta Views. It has been pointed out more than once that the liberated Soul and the Soul which has entered the Nirvana, are not omniscient, although. Omniscience may be possible in a being who is about to attain final emancipation. This is the theory, upon which the Sankhya, the Yöga, the Nyāya, the Vaiģēsika, the Buddhist and the Advaita monists of the Vēdánta school are agreed. But those philosophers of the Vēdánta school who do not admit the identity of the Brabman and the Jiva, hold a different View. According to them, the liberated Jiva becomes Omniscient. and the grounds for this view of the dualistic Vēdantists are obvious. They do not admit the reality of the absolute and the undetermined ('Nirguna') Brahman. The Brahman, according to them, is 'Saguņa' i. c., determined and endowed with attributes The absolute monists of the Vēdánta school maintain that it is impossible to ascribe Omniscience or any qualification to the liberated Soul which is merged in the attribute-less Brahman, Even these monists do not deny that a Soul which is by dint of its selfculture and self-development has succeeded in closely associating itself with the qualified or the Saguna-brahma,' attains Omniscience. The Vēdantins, other than the absolute monists hold that Brahman is
Saguna' or qualified and that the absolute, unqualified, or the 'Nirguna-brahma' is an unreal abstraction, that the Mukti or emancipation of a Soul consists in its inseparable association with (and not an
