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The eighth at 80 years, 11 months, 25 days, 13 hours, and 20 minutes If no age-karma is bound yet, the ninth is the last antar-nauhúrta of his life. The point is that the man is born with his particular age-karma already bound. Therefore he must bind the age karma of his next incarnation at the latest at the last moment.
BONDAGE
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Causes of Bondage. The causes of Bandha or bondage are :--
1. Wrong-Belief. Mithyadarshana, wrong-belief, is of 5 kinds.
1. Ekánta. Taking only one aspect of a many-sided thing e. g., man is mortal and immortal, regarded from the point of view of body and soul respectively. Taking only one view is Ekánta.
2. Viparita. Perverse belief, e.g , Animal sacrifices lead to heaven. Injury to anyone cannot be a cause of merit.
3. Samshaya-Doubt, scepticism, hesitation, e.g., as to path of Liberation.
4. Vinaya. Veneration. Taking all religions and gods, even the so-called religions which enjoin cruel or immoral practices, to be equally worthy of pursuit.
5. Ajnána. Wrong belief caused by ignorancé. Indiscrimination of good and bad.
Wrong belief is caused by Nisarga, inborn error; or by Adhigama, preaching of another.
The last is of 4 kinds: -
Kriyávádi, belief in time, soul, etc. as causing everything in the world. All the substances perform their functions and become causes of different effects. To uphold otherwise is wrong belief.
Akriyá vádi, opposite of the last, e. g., the soul does nothing. This undermines all truth. If the soul does nothing, who is responsible for the doing and fruition of our good and bad actions ?
Ajnánika, Agnostic. -Everything is not knownable. This is one of the general attributes of all substances How then can it be said that nothing is knowable? It may be unknowable from some point of view ; but that is all
Vaineyika, Religion is identical with veneration of parents, king, etc., e. g., Confucianism. Obviously veneration and eternal truth are not identical.
All these four together form 363 varieties of wrong belief i, e., 180, 84,67 and 32 respectively.
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