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It can be argued that this leads to a loss of the soul's effort. If the soul's attainment of fruits is dependent on others, then enthusiasm for righteous actions and detachment from actions will not arise, and no effort or endeavor will be made in this direction. The essence of the above statement is that karma is the cause of the diverse varieties visible in worldly beings, such as farmers, etc. It is due to being bound by karma that worldly beings have an infinite variety of bodies, senses, and their strengths and weaknesses. Not only this, but karma is also the cause of the differences in the development of their soul qualities.
The Marganas classify these worldly beings, who are endowed with physical, mental, and spiritual limitations due to karma, based on their limitations. Marganas are not indicators of the development of beings, but rather they provide a systematic classification of their natural forms in various ways, so that their physical capabilities and the fluidity of their soul qualities due to those capabilities can be accurately depicted.
In the Marganas, the utility of the knowledge of ownership is explained in the Karmagrantha, where the Marganas are used to show the capacity of beings for karma-bandha. The question arises: when another Karmagrantha has already described the fourteen divisions of all worldly beings according to their Gunasthanas, and has described the capacity of each division for karma-bandha, udhaya, jadaurana, and satta, and this knowledge reveals the spiritual progress and decline of all beings, then what is the utility of again explaining their capacity for bandha based on the Marganas, and is there even a need for such an effort?
The answer is that even with the same Gunasthana, beings of different species, beings with different senses, beings with different Ligas (Vedas), beings with different Kashaya results, beings with different Yogas, and beings with different types of knowledge, vision, restraint, and other soul qualities, are classified based on the Marganas to show their different capacities. This has two benefits: one is that beings with certain types of motion, etc.,...