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INTEGRITY AND INTEGRATION pinnacle of existence. Moreover, once a firm position has been Laken on that point, never will it be abandoned; for it is above the whirl of both outer and inner changes, and beyond all event. Thence can be witnessed the life-processes going on in the body and soul-just as from the summit of a high mountain, bright in the sunshine above the welter of a storm, clouds can be witnessed shifting down a valley.
Integrity and Integration
THE STATE of supreme isolation that is intrinsic to the lifemonad (puruşa)-aloof from all the self-continuing processes of matter (praksti), which are the very life of the body and soul-is called kaivalya, a term that has a double sense. Kaivalya is the state of one who is kevala-an adjective meaning "peculiar, exclusive, isolated, alone; pure, simple, unmingled, unattended by anything else; bare, uncovered (as ground)"; and at the same time, “whole, entire, absolute, and perfect" (kevala-jñāna, for example, means "absolute knowledge"). Kaivalya, consequently, is "perfect isolation, final emancipation, exclusiveness, and detachment," and at the same time, “perfection, omniscience, and beatitude." The noun kevalin, furthermore, is a term used specifically to denote the Jaina saint or Tirthankara. Cleansed of karmic matter, and thereby detached from bondage, this perfected one ascends in complete isolation to the summit of the universe. Yet, though isolated, he is all-pervading and endowed with omniscience; for since his essence has been relieved of qualifying,
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