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## Chapter 326: Description of the Path to Liberation through the Nine Substances
**A definitive explanation:** The formless soul, being inherently pure but tainted by the karmic effects of attachment and other passions, is specifically drawn to material karmas. It is also specifically drawn to material karmas by the karmic effects of its own transformations, which are obtained through material karmas. This is the nature of the mutual entanglement of the soul and material karmas. Thus, even the formless soul is not free from entanglement with material karmas, whether they are virtuous or vicious.
**Commentary:** This explains the nature of the entanglement of material karmas with each other, and the entanglement of the formless soul with material karmas.
In this world, material karmas, which have been flowing continuously since the beginning of time, are present. Because they are material, they come into contact with other material karmas, and thus the soul, being attracted to them, becomes entangled with them. This is the nature of the entanglement of the soul with material karmas.
Furthermore, the formless soul, being inherently pure but tainted by the karmic effects of attachment and other passions, is specifically drawn to material karmas. It is also specifically drawn to material karmas by the karmic effects of its own transformations, which are obtained through material karmas. This is the nature of the mutual entanglement of the soul and material karmas. Thus, even the formless soul is not free from entanglement with material karmas, whether they are virtuous or vicious.
**End of the explanation of the substances of virtue and vice.**