Answer

In Jain Dharma, life is considered precious, especially human life. But moksha is not sought because life is “bad.” Moksha is sought because worldly life, even when pleasant, is temporary, uncertain, and bound with karma.

Moksha means complete freedom of the soul from birth, death, suffering, attachment, ignorance, and karma.

Explanation

Jainism teaches that worldly life has both happiness and sorrow. Sometimes life feels beautiful, meaningful, and enjoyable. But this happiness is:

• Temporary — it changes and ends.
• Dependent — it relies on body, relationships, wealth, health, and circumstances.
• Mixed with suffering — illness, aging, separation, fear, and death are unavoidable in worldly existence.
• Connected with karma — attachment and passions bind the soul again and again to birth and death.

Moksha is not rejection of life out of sadness. It is the highest realization that the soul’s true nature is infinite knowledge, infinite perception, infinite bliss, and infinite energy.

Spiritual Understanding

From the Jain view, we enjoy life because we experience moments of pleasure. But the soul’s pure bliss is far greater than worldly pleasure.

Worldly happiness depends on something outside us. Moksha is the soul’s own natural, permanent bliss.

That is why a spiritually awakened person does not seek moksha because they hate life. They seek moksha because they understand that the soul is capable of something much higher than repeated worldly enjoyment.

Takeaway

Jain Dharma does not say life is worthless. It says human life is extremely valuable because it gives us the rare opportunity to purify the soul and move toward moksha.

We seek moksha not because living is bad, but because the soul’s true freedom is far greater than temporary worldly happiness.