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ASRAVA OR THE INFLUX. negligence and (5) yoga or the functional activity of mind, speech and body. The soul being affected by these becomes transformed into a magnet as it were and attracts karmamatter towards it. The psychical condition which thus magnatises the soul to attract foreign elements is what is termed as Bhåvåsrava or the Subjective influx and the foreign matter that is actually drawn into by the soul to accumulate there in the state of satta, is called Dravyasrava or the Objective influx which results ultimately into the bondages (bandhan) of the soul. But the question is, Could there be any åsrava in the absence of any bondage? If bondage is held to be anterior to åsrava, then bondage cannot be taken as a consequent of. ásrava which is its cause in as much as the effect which has something anterior to it as its cause cannot come to be without the cause, for it is the cause that passes into the effect.
Indeed! But there is no such contradic: tion as exposed in the above objection in the interpretation we put in to explain the causal relativity between asrava and bandha.
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