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like knowledge, faith and conduct called bhava-pratyanika. This is discussed at length in the six questions and answers.
Q. 239. Inclination, detachment and knowledge thereof in a soul keen for liberation is called vavahāra or behaviour. Its five types have been indicated. “Agama vyavahara include supreme knowledge, psychological knowledge, extra-sensory knowledge and the knowledge of 14, 10 and 9 pūrvas. Srutavyavahāra includes the knowledge of the code of conduct, etc., prescribed in the sacred texts. Ajñā-vyavahāra stands for behaviour as per the order of some senior monk. This may be communicated from one person to another who is living at a distance. Behaviour on the basis of special instruction from the acārya is called dhåranā-vyavahāra. Behaviour to atone for some lapse is called jita-vyavahära. For the last item, the behaviour of some advanced monks which may be more rigorous may serve as an example. The five are indicated in order of importance, the highest being agama-vyavahāra, to that one who has it, makes use of it. In its absence, one is to depend on śruta-vyavahāra and so on down tbe line. Even within ägama-vyavahāra, one who has the supreme knowledge should base his behaviour on it ; but in case one does not have it, he has to use psychological knowledge and so on down the line. In doing so with meticulous care, one becomes the true follower of Bhagavān Mahāvira.
Q. 241 Bandha or bondage in the Jaina context does not mean a bondage with an object like a rope or a chain, (dr avyabandha) but the bondage of the soul by karma (bhāva-bandha). The iriyāpathiki type of bondage is due to the activities of the body, mind and speech and the sämparāyiki type of bondage is due to passions. The iriyāpathiki bondage may have been acquired in one birth when it is called grahaņakarşa or in several births when it is called bhāväkarşa.
Q. 241 Another two bondages with which Chapter Nine starts are prayoga-bandha which is acquired and visrasa-bandha which is natural. Natural bondage exists in case of the spacepoints in Motion, Rest and Space, due to inherent grease
