Samyak Jnana

(सम्यक ज्ञान)

Literal Meaning

Right knowledge

Etymology & Sanskrit Root

'Samyak' plus 'jnana' (knowledge); the second jewel — an error-free, doubt-free understanding of the tattvas that arises once right faith is established.

Spiritual Insight & Context

Jain tradition classifies knowledge into five graded levels, beginning with sense-based mati-jnana and culminating in the omniscient kevala-jnana.

Where Samyak Jnana Comes Up

Munisuvrata, in Whose Age Rama Lived

The story of the twentieth Tirthankara, born to King Sumitra and Queen Padmavati at Rajgir, in whose distant era Jain tradition places the events later retold in its own Ramayana, the Paumacariya.

The Three Jewels of Jainism

Ratnatraya

Dilwara Temples of Mount Abu

Marble Jain Sanctuaries