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387 of the Viveka-Khyāti or consciousness of emancipation, there arises the knowledge, called Tāraka. Through this Tāraka knowledge, all things are known. This Tāraka is otherwise called the Prātibha.
L. THE STAGE PENULTIMATE TO LIBERATION
AND OMNISCIENCE: THE SĀMKHYA VIEW SĀMKHYA View: A YOGI CAN BE OMNISCIENT
The Sāṁkhya school of philosophers attribute to the Yogi's or sages, a supernatural mode of perception in which all things and phenomena of all places and of all times are cognised and they account for it in this way. The Yogi's or seers through their penances and self-perfection attain a power by which they come in direct contact with the Pradhāna, the potential basis of all things. As all things evolve from the Pradhāna and on their dissolution enter into it, the Pradhāna is the real substance in which all phenomena live, move and have their being. By seeing the Pradhāna, one sees all things evolving out of it. It is thus that the Yogi's being in contact with the universal basis of all things through their supernatural attainment are enabled to perceive all things.
'लीनवस्तुलब्धातिशयसम्बन्धात् ।' ८९ विषयाध्यायः सांख्यसूत्रम् The commentator explains, -
__ सत्कार्यस्थितेनष्टमपि स्वकारणे लीनं भूतत्वेनाऽस्ति। भविष्यदपि स्वकारणेऽनागतत्वेनास्ति । योगजधर्मानुग्रहाल्लब्धातिशयस्य योगिन एव प्रधानसम्बन्धात् सर्वदेशकालादिसम्बन्ध इति।
The effect is existent in the cause. What is found to perish exists in a potential state in its basal ground. What is future exists in its cause as something not come as yet. On account of their attainment of supernatural power of vision the Yogi's come in contact with the Pradhāna and through this contact, they come in contact with
(things of) all places and all times. This supernatural power of vision in the Yogi's is practically omniscience. Thus although the Sāṁkhya philosophers
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