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fic attributes of touch, taste, smell and colour). 3. “Asrava”. “Asrava'' means influx or inflow. The origination of impure (non-material ) modification in the soul in the form of auspicious (virtuous) or inauspicious (wicked) psychic emotion is called psychic influx (Bhavaasrava) and at the same moment the automatic (on their own) inflow of fresh material particles transfor. mable into karmic matter (which enter into the same region as that of the soul) is called material influx (Dravyaasrava). In this process of material influx, the impure modification of the soul is the instrumental cause.
Both merit and demerit (punya and Papa) are types of influx (asrava) and bondage ( Bandha). Merit (Punya)
Wirtuous activities such as charity, compassion, reverence, worship and vows etc., originate in the modifications of the soul. All these are non-material and alienated impure modifications of soul and they are called psychic merits (Bhava
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