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Bondage (the power to create karma) is only due to attachment and aversion. When attachment and aversion are absent, ignorance (mithyatva) diminishes or is destroyed. In the Mahabharata Shantiparva, the statement "karma binds the creature" also refers to attachment and aversion.
Thus, whether it is called mithyatva or attachment and aversion, all these are called bhavakarma.
Avyakarma - From the above statement, it is clear that karma bondage occurs due to physical and mental tendencies arising from attachment and aversion. Although every thought is a cause of karma acquisition, the karma bondage that occurs due to actions arising from kshaya is particularly strong, and the karma bondage that occurs due to actions with thought is weak and of short duration, and it takes less effort and less time to destroy it. Jain philosophy provides a well-organized description of the process of karma bondage. According to its belief, there are two types of substances in the world - (1) conscious and (2) unconscious. Unconscious substances are also of five types: dharma, adharma, space, time, and matter. Of these, the first four types of substances are intangible and formless. Therefore, they are beyond the reach of the senses and are therefore imperceptible. Only matter is a substance that is tangible and has form, and therefore it is visible to the senses and can be grasped and released. According to the etymology "puranadgalana pungala", to meet and to separate is its very nature. This matter has categories of perceptible and imperceptible forms. Among these are also karma particles. There is no place in the world where karma-producing matter particles are not present. When a being acts with its mind, speech, or body in any way, karma-producing matter particles are attracted from all sides, and as many regions as the soul exists in, so many matter particles are absorbed by it at that time. The number of particles varies according to the intensity of the action. The amount of action...