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Kevala Jñāna

Omniscience: in Jainism, the perfect, unobstructed knowledge of the liberated soul.

Also: Kevala jnana, kevala, omniscience

Jainism, Sikhism and other paths

Kevala jñāna, “isolated” or “absolute knowledge”, is the soul’s own nature revealed when the karmas that veil it are destroyed. The kevalin knows all things, past, present and future, directly and at once. Mahāvīra attained it under a sal tree by the river Ṛjupālikā. It is the Jain counterpart of awakening.