Answer

In Jain Dharma, we are not considered “created by mistake.” Jainism does not teach that a creator made souls accidentally or purposefully. The soul is eternal — it was never created, and it will never be destroyed.

And moksha is not a bleak escape from life. It is the soul’s natural state of perfect freedom, peace, knowledge, perception, and bliss.

Explanation

Jain Dharma teaches that:

• Every soul is eternal — it has existed since beginningless time.
• The universe is also eternal — it is not created from nothing by a creator.
• Bondage happens because of karma — through attachment, aversion, passions, and ignorance.
• Liberation is possible — when the soul removes karmic bondage completely.

So existence is not a “mistake.” The problem is not that we exist; the problem is that the soul is bound by karma and therefore experiences birth, death, pleasure, pain, confusion, and limitation.

In Jain understanding, worldly life can contain moments of joy, relationships, beauty, and learning — but it is still unstable because everything worldly changes. That is why Jain Dharma points us toward something higher: freedom from dependence on temporary things.

Spiritual Understanding

Moksha is not emptiness or non-existence. It is not sadness. It is not punishment.

Moksha is the complete awakening of the soul’s true nature:

• infinite knowledge,
• infinite perception,
• infinite bliss,
• infinite energy.

From the worldly point of view, “leaving the cycle of birth” may sound bleak because we are attached to familiar experiences. But from the Jain spiritual view, saṃsāra is like being trapped in repeated limitation, while moksha is complete freedom.

Jain Dharma does not ask us to hate life. It asks us to understand life clearly, live ethically, reduce harm, purify the soul, and move toward liberation.

Takeaway

Jainism does not say we were created by mistake. It says we are eternal souls temporarily covered by karma. The goal is not to reject existence, but to realize our pure, blissful, liberated nature.