How do moksha and kewalgyan feel
Answer
In Jain Dharma, Kevalgyan and Moksha are not described as ordinary “feelings” like happiness, excitement, or peace that we experience through the body and mind.
They are pure states of the soul.
- Kevalgyan means perfect, infinite knowledge of the soul.
- Moksha means complete liberation from all karmas, birth, death, body, and worldly suffering.
Explanation
A person with Kevalgyan becomes a Kevali. The soul directly knows all substances and their modes completely and clearly. There is no doubt, ignorance, confusion, attachment, or aversion.
But the Kevali may still have a body until the remaining non-destructive karmas finish.
Moksha happens when all karmas are completely destroyed. The liberated soul, called a Siddha, rises to the top of the universe, the Siddhashila, and remains forever in its pure nature.
In Jain understanding, the liberated soul has:
- Anant Gyan — infinite knowledge
- Anant Darshan — infinite perception
- Anant Charitra — perfect conduct/purity
- Anant Sukh — infinite bliss
Spiritual Understanding
If we ask, “How does it feel?”, Jain Dharma would say: it is beyond bodily and mental feeling.
Worldly pleasure depends on senses, emotions, and circumstances. But the bliss of Moksha is:
- not dependent on the body,
- not temporary,
- not mixed with pain,
- not caused by desire,
- not disturbed by anything.
It is the soul existing in its own complete purity, awareness, and bliss.
Takeaway
Kevalgyan is the soul’s perfect awakening. Moksha is the soul’s complete freedom.
They are not ordinary feelings; they are the highest, purest state of consciousness and infinite bliss according to Jain Dharma.