Nigoda

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In Jainism cosmology, the Nigoda is a realm existing outside the universe under the seven hells in which the lowest forms of life reside in endless numbers, and without any hope of release by self-effort. The Nigoda exists in contrast to the Supreme Abode, also located outside the universe at the very top, above the heavens, where liberated human beings exist in omnisciencent, absolute stillness and bliss forever. According to Jain tradition, it is said that when a human being rises to this state after death and achieves liberation (Moksha), another from the Nigoda is given the potential of self-effort and hope.