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Chapter 8 - Sutra 4-5
The limitation is established within it; the qualities of sweetness, intensity, and mildness arise therein; and the pulsating dimension of the milk is also created along with it. Likewise, in the pudgala (matter) that is received by the soul and is amalgamated in its region, four types of limitations are formed: nature (prakriti), status (sthiti), experience (anubhava), and locality (pradesha).
1. The manifestation of qualities in pudgala that covers knowledge, obstructs perception, and allows for the experiences of pleasure and pain, etc., is termed ‘nature-binding’ (prakriti-bandha).
2. Along with the binding of nature, the limitation that is established in pudgala, such that it does not deviate from that quality for some time, is called ‘temporal limitation’ (kala-bandha).
3. As the nature is created, the special quality that produces experiences of intensity, mildness, etc., is a characteristic conferring the label of ‘experiential limitation’ (anubhava-bandha).
4. The karmic pudgala, which, when received in various qualities, gets distributed in certain dimensions according to its qualities, is identified as ‘locality-binding’ (pradesha-bandha).
Among these four types of bindings, the first and last are dependent on the quality of the union (yoga); because the degrees of nature and locality rely on the degrees of unity (yoga). The second and third types are dependent on passions (kashaya); for the intensity and mildness of the passions determine the predominance or deficiency of the status and experiential bindings.
Now, it designates the names of the divisions of the primal nature:
The first is knowledge (jnana), perception (darshana), obscuring (avarana), knowledge to be known (vedaniya), delusion (moha), and duration of life (ayushk), and the divisions of different gotras (lineages).