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This is said in the Bal Rupantar. The reason given for the existence of the body being bound is the pride or ego of the heart. (5) Just as the Granthi-mev is described in Jain scriptures, so it is in the Yoga Vashishtha. (6) The description of the soul acquiring the body through contact with Maya and creating a world of thoughts and perceptions through contact with the mind, and the destruction of the world of stationary and mobile beings at the end of the Kalpa, can be reconciled with the Jain doctrine in this way: the soul's transition from the state of non-action to the state of action is the soul's acquisition of the body.
"The object of perception, the six categories of existence, is called bondage. The perceiver is bound by the object of perception, and is liberated in the absence of the object of perception." (22)
- Genesis Chapter, Section 1.
"The mind, which is full of wrong thoughts, is like a demon child. It always deceives the perceiver by making it appear as the object of perception." (38)
- Genesis Chapter, Section 3.
"The separation from the objects of perception is liberation. The thirst of the mirage, the water in the mirage, and other such things are all just peace." (23)
- Genesis Chapter, Section 115.
"It constantly creates itself, and thus it is called a magical illusion." (16)
- Genesis Chapter, Section 1.
"All that is seen in this world, both stationary and mobile, is like a dream in sleep, and is destroyed at the end of the Kalpa." (10)
- Genesis Chapter, Section 1.
"He is like that, but he appears to be different. He is like a living being, but he is destined for destruction." (13)