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HERMANN KUHN
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- Omniscience (kevala jnana) is mentioned last, because this channel starts operating only after we experienced the other four.
In our present time omniscience appears to be far beyond our capacity. Though we assume that a select few exalted beings might experience this state, we take it for granted that they achieved this only though great inner and outer hardship. Yet in effect we reach omniscience without any external means only by dissolving our inner obstructions.34
Though omniscience appears to be far from our present reality, we often receive a taste of this ability. These are the moments between dream and waking when we have neither left one world completely yet nor are quite conscious of the other one. Here we often experience seconds or minutes where we command immensely complex knowledge that would solve all the riddles of the world if we could only take it with us.
Even if after waking up completely we shake our head with incredulity and discard the experience because we can't explain it, that whiff of multidimensional insight nevertheless was real while it lasted. We definitely felt it, however fleeting it may have been. It is no less authentic only because we did not experience it during the waking state.
We certainly can activate omniscience in our waking state as well. Yet we first have to significantly expand our current limited capacity for multidimensional insights before we could utilize it in any way.
This taste of omniscience tells us how natural, comfortably and without awe we handle this ability - even if only for a short time and not completely in the waking state. It also shows us that om
34 We reach omniscience (kevala jnana) - and direct mental perception
(manah-paryaya) - through knowledge of our higher self. Knowledge of our higher self means to sense the eternal, majestic being we really are beyond the limits of this universe (see '14 STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT' - stage 11).
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