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CHAPTER SIX
An account of jīva and ajīva has already been offered, that of asrava or inflow is now due.
The Nature of Asrava Defined through a Description of Yoga or Activity:
The activity of body, speech and manas is yoga. 1.
That-on account of being the factor responsible for an association with karma-is designated asrava or inflow. 2.
That activity of the form of the wavering of the constituent-units of a soul which results from a kşayopasama or ksaya of the vīryāntarāya-karma and which proceeds on the basis of pudgalas is called yoga. There are three types of it, differing according to the difference of basis—viz. yoga pertaining to body, yoga pertaining to speech, yoga pertaining to manas. That yoga which proceeds on the basis of the pudgalas belonging to the physical groupings that go to constitute a body of the audārika type or the like is yoga pertaining to body. The wavering of the constituent-units of a soul that is on the point of undergoing a transformation of the form of speech-a wavering which occurs when internal speech has been acquired as a result of a kşayopaśama of the karmas like matijñānāvaraņa, aksaraśrutavarana etc. and which proceeds on the basis of the physical groupings that go to constitute speech—is yoga pertaining to speech. The wavering of the constituent-units of a soul that is on the point of undergoing a transformation of the form of manasa wavering which occurs when there has been an acquisition of internal manas of the form of a kşayopasama of the no-indriya
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