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## Chapter 681
**Verse 19:** These five are the causes of bondage, both collectively and individually. The five are due to false belief, and the last four are due to the last three.
**Verse 199:** The three causes of bondage in the fifth state of being are: restraint, unrestraint, and mixed, and the three causes of bondage in the sixth state of being are: carelessness, passions, and karma.
**Verse 200:** The three causes of bondage in the sixth state of being are: carelessness, passions, and karma. The two causes of bondage in the next four states of being, from the seventh to the tenth, are: passions and karma.
**Verse 201:** Those in the states of subdued delusion, diminished delusion, and those who are liberated with karma, are bound by karma only through karma. The liberated ones, without karma, are not bound by karma.
**Verse 202:** The soul, tainted by passions, takes up particles suitable for karma every moment. This is called bondage, and it is considered to be of many kinds.
**Verse 203:** Bondage, in general, is of four types, based on its nature, state, experience, and location.
**Verse 204:** Nature refers to the inherent quality. Just as the nature of neem is bitterness, so too, all karmas have their own inherent nature.
**Verse 205:** The nature of knowledge-obscuring karma is ignorance, i.e., not allowing the knowledge of objects. The nature of perception-obscuring karma is non-perception, i.e., not allowing the perception of objects.
**Verse 206:** The nature of karmas that are experienced as pleasant and unpleasant is to cause the experience of pleasure and pain in those who are knowledgeable.
**Verse 207:** The nature of perception-delusion karma is to cause disbelief in the truth. The nature of extreme character-delusion karma is to cause constant unrestraint.
**Verse 208:** The nature of the karma of action is to determine the duration of existence. The nature of the karma of name is to cause the birth of a being as a god, a hell-being, etc.
**Verse 197:** In the state of being of the careless and restrained, there is also the possibility of the karma of food and the karma of mixed food. Therefore, when these are included, there are fifteen types of karma.
**Explanation:** These five, false belief, etc., are the causes of bondage, both collectively and individually. That is, sometimes they are the cause of all bondage, and sometimes they are the cause of less bondage. In the state of being of false belief, all five are the causes of bondage. In the three states of being after that, the last four are the causes of bondage, excluding false belief.
**Explanation:** In the fifth state of being, called restrained and unrestrained, the three causes of bondage are: restraint, unrestraint, and mixed, and the three causes of bondage in the sixth state of being are: carelessness, passions, and karma.
**Explanation:** The three causes of bondage in the sixth state of being are: carelessness, passions, and karma. The two causes of bondage in the next four states of being, from the seventh to the tenth, are: passions and karma.
**Explanation:** Those in the states of subdued delusion, diminished delusion, and those who are liberated with karma, are bound by karma only through karma. The liberated ones, without karma, are not bound by karma.
**Explanation:** The soul, tainted by passions, takes up particles suitable for karma every moment. This is called bondage, and it is considered to be of many kinds.
**Explanation:** Bondage, in general, is of four types, based on its nature, state, experience, and location.
**Explanation:** Nature refers to the inherent quality. Just as the nature of neem is bitterness, so too, all karmas have their own inherent nature.
**Explanation:** The nature of knowledge-obscuring karma is ignorance, i.e., not allowing the knowledge of objects. The nature of perception-obscuring karma is non-perception, i.e., not allowing the perception of objects.
**Explanation:** The nature of karmas that are experienced as pleasant and unpleasant is to cause the experience of pleasure and pain in those who are knowledgeable.
**Explanation:** The nature of perception-delusion karma is to cause disbelief in the truth. The nature of extreme character-delusion karma is to cause constant unrestraint.
**Explanation:** The nature of the karma of action is to determine the duration of existence. The nature of the karma of name is to cause the birth of a being as a god, a hell-being, etc.
**Explanation:** In the state of being of the careless and restrained, there is also the possibility of the karma of food and the karma of mixed food. Therefore, when these are included, there are fifteen types of karma.