According to Jainism, moksha (liberation) is the state of complete freedom from the cycle of birth and death (samsara) and from all karmic bondage. While living beings can make significant spiritual progress and purify their souls through right faith (samyak darshan), right knowledge (samyak jnana), and right conduct (samyak charitra), actual experience of moksha is only possible after the soul has completely eradicated all karmas.

When a soul attains kevala jnana (infinite knowledge) as an arihant, it is still embodied but free from new karmic bondage. However, the final experience of moksha—absolute liberation—occurs only after the physical body is shed at the end of that life. The soul then rises to Siddhashila, a realm at the top of the universe, where it abides in eternal bliss and knowledge, forever free from the cycle of birth and death.

Thus, in Jainism, while one can reach the state of kevalin (omniscient being) while alive, the full and permanent experience of moksha is attained only after death, when the soul leaves the body and is liberated.