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The seven are jiva, ajiva, asrava, bandha, samvara, nirjara, and moksa. If punya and papa are not included in asrava these seven become nine.
(a) Jiva : covers all living beings large or small. They are further divided in different classes according to physical manifestations. The central entity being
soul.
(b) Ajiva : is everything non-living and includes matter, space, time, motion, and non-motion,
(c) Asrava : Matter causes misery to the soul through attachment. It is the intensity of the passions of attachment and abhorrence towards the objects of pleasure and the objects of dislike which causes the karmas to adhere to the jiva.
The good and bad acts carried out by mind, speech, or body attract the influx of auspicious and inauspicious Karma respectively. This influx as a result of good or bad acts, is not dissimilar from the influx caused by misconception, indulgence in sensuous pleasures, or passions like anger, hatred etc. So punya and papa are labelled together under the common class of asrava, i.e., the influx of karmic particles.
(d) Samvara : is to halt the influx of auspicious or inauspicious karmic particles.
(e) Bandha : is the adherence of various karmic particles to the jiva. The karmas which envelop the
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