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This visible world is based on the animate and inanimate elements. The soul also is not independent herebecause due to the Karmic bondages, it is relational to the inanimate element. All the living beings are perceptible by the mixture of animate and inanimate elements and due to the relation with inanimate, the living being gets infactuated towards inanimate This infactuation may either be towards own body or others' or towards riches, property or other things. This deluded condition awakens the tendencies of attraction or repulsion in the life as a result of which the living soul being subdued by those trends, performs various activities and gets himself bound by their good or evil efforts.
If a living being performs virtuous deeds he gets bounded with auspicious karmas and its effect is also benign. By evil deeds he is bonded with inauspicious karmas and has to reap their evil fruits. In this way the elements of merits or sins formulate the happy or unhappy condition in life. This effluence of karma matter uniting with the soul is termed as 'ASHRAVA' (Influx), that is inflow of Karmas.
Prowess exerted to obstruct this influx of karmas is called by the name of 'SAMWAR' (cessation). when this 'Samwar' element is adored, protuberance (rise) emerges in life, because when at every moment one conducts with temperate view and harmonious acts, then only 'Samwar' (cessation) activates. Again effort directed towards destroying the previously earned karmas is called 'NIRJARA' (Partial shedding). If by 'Samwar' the inflowing karmas from outside are stopped and by 'Nirjara' the internal (existing)
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