Jaina Sadhu must fight against the passions and bodily senses in order to gain omniscience and the purity of soul is religious goal in the Jaina system. Its influence on India's culture has been considerable, including significant contributions in philosophy and logic, art and architecture, grammar, mathematics, astronomy and astrology, and literature.
There are four stages of perception, observation, determination, and impression which lead to mati-gyana, the first of five kinds of knowledge. The second kind of knowledge is, derived from the scriptures and general information. There are three kinds of immediate knowledge, avadhi supersensory perception, manah-paryaya, reading the thoughts of others, and Moksha. Moksha is direct experience of the soul's pure form unblemished by its attachment to matter.
Omniscience is the foremost attribute of a liberated jiva, the emblem of its purity; thus, a liberated soul,is a Tirthankara.
According to Jainism, yoga, the ascetic physical and meditative discipline of the monk, is the means to the attainment of liberation. Yoga is the cultivation of true knowledge of reality, faith in the teachings of the Tirthankara, and pure conduct; it is, thus, intimately connected to the three jewels of right knowledge, right belief, and right conduct.
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