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## Chapter 58: The Sixfold Agamas
**5. The Nature-Application Gate:** This gate elaborates on the nature and distinctions of the consequences of karma through sixteen principles, including the deposit of nature.
**6. The Bond-Application Gate:** This gate comprises four principles: bond, binder, bound, and bond-establishment. The bond principle describes the binding of the soul and karma-regions in their eternal and non-eternal forms. The binder principle examines the ownership of souls who bind karma, among other aspects, through eleven application gates. The second section of this text, *Khuddabandh*, is related to this principle. The bound principle elaborates on the categories of *pudgala* that are eligible for karma-binding, which is why this section is known as the *Vargana* section. A detailed introduction to this section will be provided later. The bond-establishment principle has four distinctions: nature-bond, state-bond, section-bond, and region-bond. These are elaborated upon in the sixth section, *Mahabhandh*.
**7. The Attachment-Application Gate:** This gate describes the attachment of root karmas and their consequences. For example, the eye sense is attached to its object, form; the ear sense is attached to sound. Similarly, the knowledge-obscuring and vision-obscuring karmas are attached to all substances, not to all states. The karmas of feeling are attached to pleasure and pain. The karmas of delusion are attached to the destruction of the true nature of the soul, which is right faith and conduct. The karmas of lifespan are attached to the determination of birth. The karmas of name are attached to the consequences of *pudgala*, the consequences of the soul, and the consequences of the region. The karmas of lineage are attached to the states of the soul, which are high and low. The karmas of hindrance are attached to the obstruction of giving and other virtuous actions. Similarly, the attachment of consequences is also considered in this application gate.
**8. The Process-Application Gate:** This gate describes the regions of karma-categories that are not yet transformed into karma but will be transformed into root nature and consequences in the future. These categories acquire distinct characteristics based on their nature, state, and section.
**9. The Initiation-Application Gate:** This gate describes four types of initiation: bond-initiation, stimulation-initiation, pacification-initiation, and transformation-initiation. Bond-initiation describes the binding of the eight karmas, including knowledge-obscuring, from the time of karma-binding until the nature, state, section, and region are established. Stimulation-initiation describes the stimulation of nature, state, section, and region. Pacification-initiation describes the complete pacification of nature, state, section, and region. Transformation-initiation describes the destruction of the region and the complete destruction of nature, state, section, and region.