Kevala the Enlightened

Kevala is the god of enlightenment, self-perfection, knowledge, healing and inner strength. His followers claim that he was once a mortal who achieved absolute physical and mental perfection and thus attained divinity of his own volition.  Followers of Kevala reject the idea of a creator deity responsible for the manifestation, creation, or maintenance of this universe. According to Kevala doctrine, the universe and its constituents (soul, matter, space, time and principles of motion) have always existed. All the constituents and actions are governed by universal natural laws and an immaterial entity like God cannot create or affect a material entity like the universe.  In the Kevala faith, Godliness is said to be the inherent quality of every soul, characterizing infinite bliss, infinite power, Kevala enlightenment (pure infinite knowledge), infinite peace, and perfect manifestations of infinite other attributes.There are two possible views after this point. One is to look at the soul from the perspective of the soul itself. This entails explanations of the properties of the soul, its exact structure, composition and nature, the nature of various states that arise from it and their source attributes as is done in the arcane texts of this religion. Another view is to consider things apart from the soul and its relationships with the soul. According to this view, the qualities of a soul are subdued due to karmas of the soul. Karmas are the fundamental particles of nature in the Kevala faith. One who achieves this soul through right belief, right knowledge and right conduct can be termed a god just like Kevala. This perfection of the soul is called Kevalin. A god thus becomes a liberated soul - liberated of miseries, cycles of rebirth, world, karmas and finally liberated of body as well. This is called nirvana.
The Kevala faith does not teach the dependency on any supreme being for enlightenment. The holy texts are a guide and teacher who points the way to enlightenment, but the struggle for enlightenment is one's own. Moral rewards and sufferings are not the work of a divine being, but the result of an innate moral order in the cosmos; a self-regulating mechanism whereby the individual reaps the fruits of his own actions through the workings of the karmas.  Kevala devotees believe that to attain enlightenment and ultimately liberation from all karmic bonding, one must practice the ethical principles not only in thought, but also in words (speech) and action. Such a practice through lifelong work towards oneself is regarded as observing what is known as the great vows.