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I am the Soul
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The five streams through which Asrava flows in are - Mithyatva (Fin) - wrong beliefs, Avrat (3a) - ignoring covenant, Pramad (441) transgressions through ignorance, Kashaya (54127) - passions and Yoga (1+) - situational.
The feeling that stops the stream of Mithyatva is Samyagdarshan, which appears at the fourth Gunasthana or shall we say the jiva reaches the fourth Gunasthana the moment this feeling appears. Once the fourth step is reached, the Karmas that bind you due to Mithyatva - misplaced faith - are stopped.
To stop Avrata, there is the Virati (Farfa) feeling. Deshavirati (arrafa) includes the Layman's (follower of Jainism) vows (Tach 97) and Sarvavirati (Hafafa) includes the Ascetic's vows (stre a7). These thoughts of vows, which arise as a result of reaching the fifth-sixth gunasthana, result in the stoppage of karmas binding because of Avirati - avrata - ignoring covenants.
The jiva in the clutches of the five pramadas - transgressions through ignorance, continues to bind karmas even after reaching the Virati feeling. This stream gets plugged, is stopped when the Apramatta (37987) state, that is getting engrossed in the true form of the Soul, is reached. The seventh Gunasthana is that of Apramatta feelings. Once that step is reached, the karmas that generate from transgressions cease to bind.
It is necessary to be totally free from passions, to stop the karmas that bind because of passions like anger etc.,. Once the passions leave, the jiva is in the twelfth gunasthana and then the bondage of karma is a mere namesake.
The last stream of asrava is that of Yoga. After attaining Kevaljnana at the twelfth gunasthana, there still remains a trickle of asrava through the Yoga of mind, speech and body, which of course, binds only twice.
पढमसमए बद्धं, बिइयसमए वेइयं, तइयसमए निज्जिण्णं, तं बद्धं । पटुं उदीरियं वेइयं निज्जिण्णं सेयाले य अकम्मं यावि भवइ ॥
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