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## First Karma Text
- Know that karma which binds together, as **Ādārika** etc., by the name of **Bandhana Karma**.
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**Special Meaning:** Just as things are joined together by means of sticky substances like lac-gum, etc., in the same way, **Bandhana Karma**, by the force of **Śarīra Karma**, binds together the **Pudgalas** of the **Audārika** bodies previously taken and being taken in the present. If **Bandhana Karma** were not present, there would be the same instability in the **Pudgalas** transformed into the form of the body as there is in the particles of roasted barley flour flying in the wind. **Bandhana** is of two types: **Sarva-Bandha** at the beginning of the bodies arising from all **Peshī**, and **Deśa-Bandha** later, as long as those bodies are held. That is, **Deśa-Bandha** occurs as long as the bodies remain, not when they are newly generated.
**Audārika**, **Vaikriya**, and **Āhārika** bodies experience **Sarva-Bandha** at the time of their origin and **Deśa-Bandha** later. However, the **Tejas** and **Kārma** bodies are always present in worldly beings, they are not newly generated, therefore they experience **Deśa-Bandha**.
There are five types of **Bandhana Karma** (1) **Audārika Śarīra Bandhana** (2) **Vaikriya Śarīra Bandhana** (3) **Āhārika Śarīra Bandhana** (4) **Tejas Śarīra Bandhana** (5) **Kārma Śarīra Bandhana**. Their characteristics are as follows:
(1) The karma whose arising causes the **Pudgalas** of the previously taken **Audārika** body to merge with the **Pudgalas** of the **Audārika** body being taken in the present, is called **Audārika Śarīra Bandhana Karma**.