Agna (Ajñāna) in Jainism means ignorance or lack of true knowledge. It is the fundamental mind-state that obscures the soul’s real nature and leads to wrong beliefs, attachments, and karmic bondage.

Key points:

• Agna is not just a mistake in fact; it is a fundamental misperception about the self (jiva), karma, and the universe.
• It causes οδηγ Karma bondage because actions taken under ignorance bind subtle karmic particles to the soul.
• The Jain path aims to dispel agna through right belief (samyak darshan), right knowledge (samyak jnana), and right conduct (samyak charitra) and ultimately through kevala jnana (omniscience) in the liberated state.
• There isn’t a separate, ritual “agna” practice; rather, overcoming agna is achieved by correct understanding and ethical living, according to Digambara and Śvetāmbara interpretations.

If you’d like, I can explain how agna is described in specific Jain scriptures and how Digambara and Śvetāmbara traditions discuss the remedies for it.