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finite, this very fact proves the existence and reality of Omniscience.
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The Jaina conception of God is some what similar to the above. Our Soul is finite in knowledge because of its being bound up with Karma since the beginningless time. The * knowledge-obscuring' Karma obscures limits its power of cognition. If there were no such Karma, the Soul would have been possessed of Infinite Knowledge or Omniscience. The great Beings who have successfully extricated themselves from the bonds of Karma, are necessarily all-knowing Karma is opposed to the nature of the Soul; the knowledge of the human Soul is limited, because it is bound up with Karma As soon as the bonds of Karma are removed, the soul becomes omniscient. Hence the facts of the bondage and of the limitation of human knowledge prove the reality and possibility of final Emancipation and Omniscience
Souls are infinite in number. Every Soul is in bondage and finite in knowledge. Now, if, as shown above, from the facts of bondage and finiteness of human knowledge, the reality and the possibility of final Salvation and Omniscience follow, the Jainas argue that
