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BANDHA OR BONDAGE.
bandha i e., from quantitative stand
point. Such are the four different view points from which Bandha (bondage) can be studied. As we have just seen, Bandha, is coalesence of the soul and karma-matter, like milk and water, in which both the different elements entering into a relation of identity as it were with each other, (t&datma sambandha) seem to lose their respective differences and appear as one organic whole.
But the prima facie objection that is raised to the possibilities of the bandha of the soul as hinted at in the above is this: The soul is not karma-matter, nor karma-matter the soul: The two are radically opposed to and distinct from each other : how then could soul and matter be so fused together into an identitcal whole as we find in the cases of organic life? The instance of milk and water cited by way of analogy does not hold good here; for they are both paudgalic in essence and therefore chemical action and reaction is possible between them. But the soul and k rma, there being nothing common
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