Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya by Haribhadra Sūri
Chapter 5 – A Line of Demarcation between the first four and last four Yogadṛṣṭis [103 of 121]
Chapter 5.8 – Sarvajña (The Omniscience) [2 of 20]
In order to achieve emancipation, one has to acquire the state of omniscience [i.e., sarvajña]. Therefore, if the state of emancipation is essentially one and the same, then the omniscience has to be only one. One can say that the easiest and most straight way to the emancipation is the state of omniscience. Hence, it is said that the one who is non–omniscient is not eligible to obtain the state of emancipation. If we look at this fact from the view–point of an ordinary aspirant, we may say that an aspirant can attain emancipation only by following an omniscient person. An ordinary aspirant who is desirous of obtaining omniscience [i.e., sarvajña] has to have deep faith in words of an omniscient. He must obey the words of an omniscient by understanding them in right sense. He must have to walk on the path shown by an omniscient one. No matter who the omniscient is as an individual, the true omniscient one would undoubtedly show that path which unfailingly leads an aspirant to the attainment of emancipation. This is how the trueness of an omniscient one is tested and not by his different name or his devotees’ opinions regarding him.
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