According to the various Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, beings that live in accordance with dharma proceed more quickly toward dharma yukam, moksha or nirvana ( personal liberation ).

According to Jainism, there is not one heavenly abode, but several layers to reward appropriately the souls of varying degree of karmit merits.

According to Jainism, there are 39 heavenly abodes.

* Relationship between Jainism and Hinduism – According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Article on Hinduism ,"... With Jainism, which always remained an independent Indian religion.

According to the particular tradition, with the experience of nirvana the mind ( Buddhism ) or soul ( Jainism ) or spirit ( Hinduism ) has ended its identity with material phenomena and experiences a sense of great peace.

According to Jain texts, Ravana will be the future Tirthankara ( omniscient teacher ) of Jainism.

According to another Jain text, Padmapurana, which narrates the story of Rama, Ravana belongs to the non-aryan clan of Vidyadhara — a highly cultured and knowledgeable people who were followers of Jainism and practised Ahimsa ( non-violence ).

According to some schools of Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism, Naraka is a place of torment, or Hell.

According to Jainism, the 24th Tirthankar lord Mahavir got divine knowledge in Jambhiyagram situated on the bank of river named Ujjihuvaliya.

According to other scholars, Jainism must have existed in south India well before the visit of Bhadrabhu and Chandragupta.

According to Jain traditions, it was on this day, falling at the beginning of chaturmas, the four month rainy season retreat, Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, after attaining Kaivalya, made Indrabhuti Gautam, later known as Gautam Swami, a Ganadhara, his first disciple, thus becoming a Guru himself, therefore it is observed in Jainism as Guru Purnima, and is marked special veneration to one's Gurus and teachers.

According to Jainism, The karma particles that attach to our souls are also Pudgala.

According to Jainism, Rishabha was born to Nabhi Raja and Marudevi at Ayodhya.

According to some historians, the spread of Jainism and Buddhism in the Rarh region was part of the process of Aryanisation of the area.

According to Jainism, the 24th Tirthankar lord Mahavir got divine knowledge in Jambhiyagram situated on the bank of river named Ujjihuvaliya.

Atma ( Soul ) merges into " Parmatma " or the greatest soul. According to Bhagwadgita an " Atma " or soul never dies, what dies is the body only made of five elements-Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Sky.

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

According to Theravada commentaries, there are five requisite factors that must all be fulfilled for an act to be both an act of killing and to be karmically negative.

According to Strabo, this site was first called Sigeia ; around 306 BC Antigonus refounded the city as the much-expanded Antigonia Troas by settling the people of five other towns in Sigeia, including the once influential city of Neandria.

According to textual scholars, this is really the Jahwist's account of the reunion after Joseph identifies himself, and the account of the threat to enslave Benjamin is just the Elohist's version of the same event, with the Elohist being more terse about Joseph's emotions towards Benjamin, merely mentioning that Benjamin was given five times as many gifts as the others.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to Jim Butterfield, this caused a speed reduction by a factor of five.

According to traditional texts, some form of the calendar has been in use for almost five millennia.

According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, preparations that include more than five percent of crude coal tar are Group 1 carcinogen.

According to this notation, duodecimal 50 expresses the same quantity as decimal 60 (= five times twelve ), duodecimal 60 is equivalent to decimal 72 (= six times twelve = half a gross ), duodecimal 100 has the same value as decimal 144 (= twelve times twelve

According to one of the historical chronicles ( the Gunji Yoshu ), nine sets of five beats would summon an ally to battle, while nine sets of three beats, sped up three or four times is the call to advance and pursue an enemy.

According to Nihongi, he had six wives ; but Kojiki only gives five wives, identifying the third consort to the sixth one.

According to their primary amino acid sequences and biochemical properties, the Ras superfamily is further divided into five subfamilies: Ras, Rho, Rab, Arf and Ran.

According to some scholars these five elements or pancha mahabhutas were identified with the various human senses of perception ; earth with smell, air with feeling, fire with vision, water with taste and ether with sound.

According to U. S. Census figures from 2000, 41, 000, 000 Americans claim to be wholly or partly of Irish ancestry, a group that represents more than one in five white Americans.

According to government filings, Oracle is one of the Ashcroft Group ’ s five clients that seek his help in selling data or software with security applications.

According to the UNODC, by 2008, murder rates in Kosovo had dropped by 75 % in five years.

According to Keith Mayes, the author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, the popularity within the US has " leveled off " as the black power movement there has declined, and now between half and two million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the US, or between one and five percent of African Americans.

According to his aunt, his family did not own a ranch but did own one cow and four or five horses on a few acres of land outside the city.

According to Agassiz, the different races were created in different provinces, each race was indigenous to the province it was created in, he cited evidence from Egyptian monuments to prove that fixity of racial types had existed for at least five millennia.

According to Meher Baba the Avatar appears on Earth every 700 – 1400 years and is ' brought down ' into human form by the five Perfect Masters of the time to aid in the process of moving creation in its never-ending journey toward Godhood.

According to current gedoogbeleid the possession of a maximum amount of five grams cannabis for personal use is not prosecuted.

According to the official estimates of the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands Antilles, the five islands had a combined population of 199, 929 as at 1 January 2009.

According to the documentary hypothesis, the first five books of the Bible ( Pentateuch / Torah ), including Genesis, were collated during the 5th century BC from four main sources, which themselves date from no earlier than the 10th century BC.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), states are considered a party to the convention, which entered into force as international law in December 1983, if they ratify at least two of the five protocols.

According to Jains, the Tirthankaras based their teachings and philosophy after knowing the realities on this universe ( like dravya and tattva ).

According to Jain belief, twenty of the twenty-four Tirthankaras ( teachers of the Jains ) attained Moksha ( Nirvana ) from this place.