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## The Fifth Karma Granth
**All-pervading, non-perishable, and infinite in number, the study of the bondage of karma is a great endeavor.** Each individual state of bondage gives rise to countless states of study.
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The states of study are called "Aadhyavasaya Sthana" (states of study) due to the bondage of karma. The intensity of the passions (kṣayās) - intense, more intense, most intense, mild, milder, mildest - gives rise to numerous variations in the states of study. A single state of bondage does not lead to a single state of study, but rather to many. In other words, a single state binds different beings to different states of study. For example, some individuals may have bound themselves to a lifespan equivalent to two oceans, but it is not necessary that they all have the same exact results. Therefore, the states of study are said to be countless, as vast as the universe, due to the individual states of bondage.
Except for the karma of lifespan (āyu karma), the states of study for the other seven karmas - knowledge obscuration (jñānāvaraṇa), perception obscuration (darśanāvaraṇa), painful (vedanīya), delusion (mohaniya), name (nāma), lineage (gotra), and hindrance (antarāya) - are particularly numerous. For example, the state of study for the lowest state of knowledge obscuration is the least, the state of study for the second state is greater, and the state of study for the third state is even greater. This should be understood similarly for the fourth, fifth, and so on, up to the highest state of bondage. However, the general number for all of these is still countless, as vast as the universe. Similarly, for perception obscuration, painful, delusion, name, lineage, and hindrance karmas, the number of states of study increases from the second state to their respective highest states of bondage.
However, the states of study for the karma of lifespan are infinitely numerous in a progressive manner. In other words, the states of study for the lowest state of bondage of all four lifespan karmas are countless, as vast as the universe, and the states of study for the second state of bondage are infinitely more numerous than that, and so on.