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CHAPTER IX
OMNISCIENCE
“ Wisdom guarded to the end the first-formed Father of the world that was created alone, and delivered him out of his own transgressions, and gave him strength to get dominion over all things."-II Esdras (Jetish Apocrypha) Chapter X.
“For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth eren unto the west; so shall also the coming of the son of man be.”—Matthew xxiv, 27.
The fourth Kalyānaka in the life of a Tirthamkara is the attainment of Full All-embracing Knowledge, in other words, of Omniscience, by the destruction of the forces that keep it from blazing forth. There are four kinds of karmas termed ghātiyā (inimical or obstructive) which are responsible for the loss of this great and divine attribute in our case. They are known as knowledge-obstructing, perception-obstructing, serenity-obstructing (i.e., deluding) and power-obstructing energies of karmas. These inimical forces come into being by the fusion of spirit and matter, which is continually taking place in the case of the unemancipated soul, and are reinforced from
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