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When karma, in the form of dust (raj), enters the soul, it does so through the process of obscuring knowledge (jnanaavaran). The soul is formless (amurti) and karma is formed (murtik). In such a state, their binding is not possible. Because the binding of the formed with the formed is possible, but how is the binding of the formless with the formed possible?
The solution is that, unlike other philosophies, Jainism considers the soul and the flow of karma to be beginningless (anadi). There is no belief that the soul was previously pure and then became bound. Because this belief has many inconsistencies and raises doubts. To clarify the beginningless relationship between the soul and karma, the Acharyas have provided a logical solution, which is as follows:
"Those who are in the chariot of the world, they have results (parinaama) of attachment and aversion. From those results, new karma binds, and from the binding of those karma, they take birth in the different realms (gati)."
This statement means that every worldly soul has been filled with attachment and aversion since beginningless time. Due to that attachment and aversion, karma binds. As a result, there are repeated births and deaths in different realms, and from that binding, birth and death, the cycle of the world continues uninterrupted.
When a new realm is attained by taking birth, the Acharyas, guiding us through the subsequent order, say that: