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the knowledge of all reality in space and time reflects and which thus ends all ignorance and curiosity that are the prerequisites for 'acquiring' knowledge.
Jainism prescribes a path to enhance the energy and consciousness levels by practicing non-violence and other forms of energy through meditation and penance. It rejected all ideas of fatalism and held that the sole prerequisite for omniscience was birth in human form. Omniscience is not the product of good deeds, thoughts or intentions. Attaining omniscience requires annihilation of all karmas, good or bad, if karma is left it must bear fruit.
Omniscience is the highest type of perception which falls in the category of extra-sensory perception. There are also several stages in perception. Mind Reading knowledge and Omniscience are the direct or immediate knowledge and are perfect means of knowledge and convey the truth without error and cannot be wrong. In fact these can be acquired by purified souls and there is no scope of error. Even in a liberated state a soul has the ability of perception, which it does intuitively without sense organs. Knowledge is both perfect and imperfect. Liberated souls possess perfect knowledge, which is free from doubt, delusion and wrong perception. Knowledge is also both standard and relative. The former is based on a fact and the latter upon a perspective or stand point.
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