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Hermann Kuhn
Yet even the purest form of direct mental perception cannot perceive the entire multitude of all possible manifestations. The stages of development (gunasthana) where direct mental perception occurs, do not yet provide the kind of stability of consciousness that is a prerequisite for the experience of omniscience.
SUTRA 29 Hos culung 2004 11 28 11 Sarva dravya paryayesu kevalasya (29) Omniscience (kevala jnana) perceives all elements and all their manifestations simultaneously. (29)
Omniscience perceives all elements and all their modes and manifestations in the present, past and future simultaneously.
Omniscience arises automatically when our consciousness is not restricted by deluding karma any more. Though we may still have other karmic bonds, they cease to effect the vastness of our consciousness. Once we reached omniscience, we never lose it again.
We experience full omniscience as soon as it arises for the first time. There are no different degrees of omniscience.
We do not experience omniscience through our mind, because the mind cannot direct its attention to a multitude of simultaneous events and objects.
Omniscience is not caused by any external means; - it is the complete unfoldment of our consciousness by itself.
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