Sutra 25: 'Tatra nirathishaya sarvajnatva beejam'
In Him, knowledge is infinite; in others it is only a germ.
Sutra 26: 'Sa poorvesham api guruh kaalenaanavachchedaath'
He was the teacher even of the earliest teachers, since He is not limited by time.'
Explanation:
These two sutras deal with Ishwara's attribute of omniscience. If we admit the existence of knowledge -- no matter how limited -- in man, we must deduce from it the existence of infinite knowledge in God. Further, granted that everybody must have a teacher, Pathanjali reasons that the teacher of the first teacher can only have been God, since He alone, being timeless, was present before teachers began.
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