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Ätmasiddhi smeared with oil being prone to attract dirt. As the dirt stays on the body until he cleans it, so do the Karma particles stay with the soul until maturity. That is called bondage. That bondage extends the appropriate consequences at the time of maturity. At that time, if the soul neither resents nor gets attached to any situation and bears the consequences with equanimity, it would not acquire new Karma and the existing bondage would be stripped off in due course.
However, the worldly soul is used to indulging in craving or aversion depending upon the types of consequences. If the soul considers them favorable, it would crave for their continuance, and if it conceives of them as unfavorable, the soul endeavors to avert the same. By virtue of such craving and aversion, the soul incurs new bondage. The earlier bondage is bound to extend its consequences. But by reacting to that with craving or aversion, the soul incurs new bondage. The cycle of old Karma leading to new Karma thus continues to operate.
Karma particles are lifeless. However intense the existing bondage of Karma may be, they have no capability to bring in new Karma on their own. It is entirely due to the wrong inclination of the soul that new Karma particles get into it. Let us take an example. By virtue of an earlier wholesome Karma, one may be blessed with a favorable situation. At the time of dinner, for instance, he may be served with relishing sweets. If he takes that as a result of his Karma and eats the same without any particular preference for the type of food, he can be considered as dispassionately availing the consequence of his Karma. Thereby he does not acquire new ones. However, being used to indulging in likes and dislikes, he may feel elated by the sweets and crave for getting more or getting the same again. That craving induces fresh Karma particles to enter the soul's province and stay with it. In other words, it acquires new bondage.
Here is an example of aversion. One gets into an unfavorable situation by virtue of an earlier unwholesome Karma. Suppose he gets an evil-minded neighbor, who starts
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