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THE NOTION OF GROWTH
As soon as we reach omniscience, we cease to experience the other four types of knowledge. We remain subject to them only as long as our consciousness is limited by karma.
As long as we are influenced by time (kala), we experience the world as a chain of events that lead us to ever deeper and more comprehensive insights. While in the first twelve stages of development, new insights therefore appear to us like the end-result of a sequence of events.
Yet a time of emergence of an insight only exists in those stages of development that are below omniscience. In the state of omniscience our consciousness is not subject to the element time. Concepts like 'consecutive', simultaneous' or 'sequence' cease to apply and there is no 'evolution' of insights as we know it presently.
Here ends the description of the ranges the different channels (types) of knowledge perceive.
SUTRA
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एकादीनि भाज्यानि युगपदेकस्मिन्नाचतुर्भ्यः ॥ ३० ॥
Ekadini bhajyani yugapade kasminna caturbhyah (30)
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One up to four channels of knowledge can be active simultaneously. (30)
We can experience up to four channels of knowledge simultaneously, but never more than four.
- One channel of knowledge. When we are in the state of omniscience (kevala jnana), we experience only this one all-comprehensive - channel.
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