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SANMATI TARKA
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Question:-Divine Lord! When the man with AbsoInte knowledge knows this earth Ratna-prabhā in all its details such as its size (dimensions', its causes, its resemblance to sometbing, its illustrations, its colour, its form, its measurements and its Pratyavatâra-in short when he knows this earth, does he at the same time perceive it ? And when he perceives it, does he at the same time know it ?
Answer. -Oh Gautama ! What you think is not correct (that is to say, it is not correct to think His knowledge and perception are simultaneous'.
Question :- Divine Lord ! When the absolute knower knows this Ratna-prabhā eartb he does not perceive it (as you say) and when He perceives it, he does not know it. What is the reason of this ?
Answer :-The reason is, Oh Gautama ! That his knowledge is full of forms, but his perception is formless. He, therefore, does not perceive when he knows, and does not know when he perceives. This is absolutely true in the vast range of his knowledge and perception that is to say down from the seventh earth and Saudharmakalpa upto Işatprāgbhāra and from the matter of ultimate atom to the molecules having infinite special units. 4.
The following verses introduce for discussion the Sahavadipaksa (the view of simultaneousness ) to criticise the Kramavadi-pakşa.
केवलणाणावरणक्खयजायं केवलं जहा णाणं । तह दसणं पि जुज्जइ णियावरणक्खयस्संते ॥५॥
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