According to the passage about Rig-Vedic thought, Jñāna leads the soul to:

Concept

Jñāna means spiritual knowledge or insight. In Vedic thought, it is valued as a means of overcoming physical bondage and attaining an enduring state of liberation and bliss.

Application

The passage asks for the state that the soul reaches through Jñāna. Among the offered values, everlasting bliss names that enduring liberated state.

Contrast

• Primitive culture names a stage of social development, not the spiritual state reached through knowledge.

• Predominance of sacrifice describes ritual emphasis rather than the fruit of Jñāna.

• The statement linking the highest-world gods with sacrifices reverses the passage’s distinction: it links those gods with prayer and Jñāna, whereas sacrifices are associated with Agni, Indra, and lower-region gods.

Cross-check

The neighboring exam framing states that sages valued Jñāna as a means to seek release from physical bondage; lasting bliss is the matching consequence.

Therefore, the answer is everlasting bliss.