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## First Karma Granth
This nature of the soul and karma has been going on since the beginning of time. Therefore, the relationship between the soul and karma should be understood as being from the beginning of time. If the relationship between karma and the soul is considered to be from the beginning of time, then it leads to the fault that "even liberated souls should be bound by karma."
The relationship between the soul and karma is from the beginning of time, but it is not the same as the beginning of time of the karma-lineage (flow). However, being from the beginning of time, it is both finite (with an end) and infinite (without an end). Those souls who have attained or will attain liberation have a finite relationship with karma from the beginning of time, and those who will never attain liberation have an infinite relationship with karma from the beginning of time.
Among the souls bound by karma, those who have the potential to attain liberation are called *bhavya*, and those who do not have this potential are called *abhavya*.
Although there is one type of karma in general, there are two types of karma in particular, based on the difference between substance and quality. Among them, the form of knowledge-obscuration, etc., is called *dravya karma*, which is the aggregate of *pudgala* atoms, and the qualities of ignorance, etc., and the emotions of anger, etc., which arise from their power, are called *bhava karma*.
Due to the influence of *kṣaya*, the soul attracts *pudgala* particles that are fit for karma, but to explain this specifically: (1) *mithyatva*, (2) *avirati*, (3) *pramada*, (4) *krodha*, and (5) *yoga*, these five are...
1. (a) The relationship between the two, like gold, copper, and fire. (b) This soul is bound by karma from the beginning of time, because it is the object of desire.
- Lokaprakash, 424
2. The aggregate of *pudgala* atoms is *dravya karma*, and the qualities are *bhava karma*.
- Gommatasar-Karmakanda