The Interior of Jainism
Kevala — the soul's own light.
Omniscient clarity when the last karma falls away — what Mahavira attained, and what every soul, Jains hold, is capable of.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Kevala jnana is omniscience — the soul, cleared of karmic obstruction, knowing all things in all times simultaneously. The Jain account is distinctive: knowledge is the soul's natural condition, and karma is what blocks it, so liberation reveals rather than acquires. A soul that attains it and then sheds the body rises to the top of the universe and remains there in perfect, motionless knowing, which the tradition describes as bliss and which is unlike the union or extinction offered elsewhere.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The self is reborn until liberation.
Hinduism · core tenet
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Suffering has a cause, and therefore an end.
Buddhism · core tenet
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The kingdom has arrived and has not arrived.
Christianity · core tenet
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Liberation happens while you are alive.
Sikhism · core tenet
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Knowledge liberates.
Advaita Vedānta · core tenet
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The arhat completes the path.
Theravāda · core tenet
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