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17 ASRAV
The jiva possesses life i.e. the sense-organs, and the powers of the body, voice and mind. It has a span of life; and has the power of respiration. But on account of the misuse of these things, the jiva is bound by karmas. This misuse is called asrav. Now, we shall consider the various kinds of asrav which cause the bondage of Karmas (1) The sense organs; (2) Vowlessness; (3) Passions; (4) Yoga (Psycho-physical vibrations) and (5) Actions; these are the five asravas.
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Violence, falsehood, stealing, sexual activity, possessiveness, the four kashayas (passions) such as anger; attachment, hatred quarrel, false accusations, divulging someone's secrets, backbiting; delight; excitement; calumniation; uttering deceptive falsehood, false belief. These eighteen sources of sin also are asravas.
False belief, vowlessness, passians, negligence, yog. (psychophysical activity) these five are asravs. The sense organs, vowlessness etc. mentioned above can become included in them. The sense-organs and lack of vratas become united with vowlessness (or-Avirati). Some actions are caused by false belief; some are caused by passions; some are caused by yoga or psychophysical vibrations, and some are caused by infatuation. Therefore, here, the five asravs namely mithyatva etc. have been discussed,
MITHYATVA (FALSE BELIEF)
It means wrong attitude, wrong taste, ignoble activity such as not having a taste for and faith in the tatvas which as mentioned earlier were expounded by the omniscient ones. This is mithyatva. Mithyatva also means not having interest and faith in the path of moksha expounded by the jin but having interest and faith in the so called path of moksha expounded by ignorant and unenlightened people. In other words instead of having faith in a great God, a great spiritual head and great dharma, believing in a false God, false spiritual head and false dharma is mithyatva.
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