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OMNISCIENCE ITS TWO ASPECTS
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born by virtue of their perennial existence and the same perennial existance tends them when they don't exist
To this monk Gangaiya said, 'Sirel Is it your native knowledge or one obtained from another source?'
'I know it inherently and not as heard from another' 'How do you know it?'
'My Inowledge is unobstructed Such a one with unobstructed enlightenment knows the finite and the infinite, both Accordingly, all knowledge is my province I cite Arhat Parshwa to prop your faith'
The words of the Lord eradicated Gangaiya's doubt He was convinced that the Lord was omniscient and a seer On this being induced with faith he prayed to him and sought initiation into his path?
It is not for the author to give a dictum on the question of Lord Mahavira's omniscience, since the author is far from an omniscient How can one not omniscient make pronoun ments on another's omniscience or otherwise ? Sudharma was the Lord's ganadhar or cardinal monk He attended on him His chief disciple was Jambu Certain shramanas and Brahmins visited him Religious discussions ensued Jambu commented on the essentials of non-violence They were highly inspired Said they, 'Sire! Who had enunciated the code of non-violence ?
'Lord Mahavira has done it'
'Tell us more about his knowledge and wisdom Your master must have revealed all this to you'
'My master Sudharma told me that his knowledge and wisdom were infinite'
The knowledge that is unobstructed is infinite Such a revelation is omniscience During the modern rational age omniscience is a knotty concept Crystal-glass is by its nature utterly pure and serene it should not surprise anybody The consciousness of the self is accordingly pure and serene.
1 'Bhagwai', 9/122-134
