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COMPENDIUM OF JAINISM
a person who has neither firm knowledge nor belief. Influx commences with impure or wrong thought or speech activities Passions form the impelling forces unless they are controlled by right belief, knowledge and conduct.
Bandba or Bondage
How does the inflow of Karma bind the soul? The process is illustrated by giving the example of a person who has fully smeared his body with oil and stands out in the open where there is wind. It is natural that particles of dust should stick to the body of such a person. Similarly when a soul is rendered weak by various kinds of thought-activities, it gives room for the particles of Karmic matter to enter. It is the invariable process that the Bhāvāśravas or the thought activities are the direct and proximate causes of Dravyāśravas or influx of matter. The conscious state by which Karma is bound with the soul is called the Bhāvabandha while the interpenetration of the Pradeśas of Karma and the soul is Dravyabandha.
It is the conscious state of mind that binds the Karma with the soul when the latter is excited by any of the causes like passion or aversion, mentioned above. Bandha is also of two kinds : Bhāva-bandha and Dravya-bandha. Bhāva-bandha is alliance of the soul with the mental activities which are the result of excitement, passion, wrong belief, etc. It is stated in the 'Vardha" măna Purana' that modification of consciousness consisting of attachment or aversion by which the Karmas are tied to the soul is known as Bhāva-bandha.7 Dravya-bandha is that bondage which results from the union between the soul and the interpenetrated Karmic matter. Bandha implies necessarily the assimilation of matter existing in many pradeśas by the soul. On account of differences in the virbrations in the soul-activity, the Karmic molecules enter and become one and stay with the pradeśa of the soul. They come in infinite numbers every moment, to each soul.
Umāsvāmi first states that wrong belief, non-abstinence, passions and activities are the causes of bondage. According to him,
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