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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
Bondage with its cause is avoidable, because it is the seed of producing worldly pleasure and pain which are themselves avoidable. 4.
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Liberation with its cause is adoptable, because it is the seed producing Spiritual Bliss which is adoptable, 5.
Intermingling of soul and karmic matter owing to its causes is bondage which is of four kinds :-Classbondage, duration-bondage, fruition-bondage, quantitybondage. 6.
The fruition of bondage is wandering in this world of many kinds such as material, spacial, etc. causing suffering to the worldly souls. 7.
The root causes of bondage are three, wrong belief, wrong knowledge, and wrong conduct, all else is its detail. 8.
Wrong belief is not to believe in the principles as they are, on account of the operation of right-beliefdeluding karma. 9.
Wrong knowledge is to know the substances wrongly or doubtfully or not to care for knowing them on account of the operation of knowledge obscuring karma. 10.
Activities of mind, body and speech caused by passions like anger etc., on account of the operation of right-conduct-deluding karmas are said to be wrong conduct. 11.
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