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6. 11-26] The eight primary types of karmic bondage are:
1. Compassion for living beings
2. Compassion for ascetics
3. Charity
4. Yoga involving self-discipline
5. Forgiveness
6. Purity
These seven are the causes of karmic bondage.
The knowledge of only the Knower, scriptures, assembly, religion, and deities is the cause of Mohaniya karma.
The rise of passions resulting in the karma of Charitra Mohaniya (the deluding karma of conduct) is the cause of karmic bondage.
Multiple endeavors and multiple acquisitions are causes of hellish birth.
Maya is the cause of Tiryancha birth (animal birth).
Limited endeavors, limited acquisitions, and inherent gentleness and simplicity are causes of human birth.
Lack of conduct, lack of vows, and the previously mentioned limited endeavors, etc., are causes for all types of birth.
Self-restraint, restraint without self-restraint, desireless penance, and childhood austerity are causes of divine birth.
The crookedness of yoga and discord are causes of inauspicious named karma.
The opposite, i.e., the straightness of yoga and concord, are causes of auspicious named karma.
Purity of perception, attainment of humility, great earnestness in conduct and vows, constant application in knowledge, continual effort, renunciation and penance according to one’s capacity, meditation in the company of the righteous and community, striving for Arhanta, Acharya, and knowing the vast scriptural knowledge—according to the Digambara tradition, the meaning of this sutra is non-conduct and non-attachment. Both of these are the causes of influx in the three births including hell; in comparison to those born in the realm of enjoyment, non-conduct and non-attachment are also causes of divine birth. This interpretation includes the influx related to divine birth, which is not described in the commentary. However, the commentator, upon recognizing this error in the commentary, has directed that this matter should be supplemented according to the Agama.
In the Digambara tradition, in this section on divine birth, besides these influxes, another influx is counted, and after this section comes the section "Samyaktvam cha." According to this tradition, the meaning of this section is that Samyaktva (right belief) is the influx related to the divine beings residing in the realms of existence like Saudharma. This point is not made in the commentary. Nevertheless, the commentator has included Samyaktva alongside other influxes in the commentary on the commentary.