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There are two types of bondage: 1) Saṃpārāyika and 2) Īpithika. The bondage of the Akṣayī is Saṃpārāyika. It is the cause of the infinite cycle of existence. The bondage of the Akṣayī is Īpithika, in which karma particles bind with the soul for the first time and are destroyed in the second. This bondage does not have any effect on the soul.
There are two perspectives in Jain philosophy for the representation of reality, known as Niścayanaya and Vyavahāranaya. Niścayanaya refers to the statement of the true nature of a thing without any external influence, while Vyavahāranaya refers to the statement of a thing in relation to external influences. In Jain philosophy, the concept of the soul's agency and experience of karma is also considered from these two perspectives.
The nature of karma has been explained earlier, and it has also been indicated that karma has an eternal relationship with the soul. When we consider the agency and experience of karma from the perspective of Niścaya, the soul is neither the doer of the material karma nor the experiencer of its fruits. Because material karma is pāṅgalika, a modification of the pudgala substance, it is therefore external. The doer of karma cannot be the conscious soul. The karma of the conscious is in the form of consciousness, and the karma of the unconscious is in the form of unconsciousness. If the karma of the conscious were to become unconscious, the distinction between the conscious and the unconscious would be destroyed, leading to the fault of mixture. This means that every substance is the doer of its own nature, not the doer of external influences. For example, water is naturally cool, but it becomes hot due to its contact with fire. However, water cannot be said to be the doer of this heat, because heat is the property of fire, and it has come to water due to its contact with fire, and is therefore imposed. As soon as the contact with fire is removed, the heat disappears. Similarly, the pudgala substance, which becomes karma due to the influence of the soul's impure emotions,