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I am the Sou! Pradesha Bandha - One atom of Pudgal is called a Pradesha and hence the scale of those pudgal-groups which transform into karmas is measured in atoms. For e.g. X number of pudgal groups containing Y number of atoms, have transformed into the karmas of a certain jiva. This is called Pradesha Bandha.
Those pudgal groups which transform into karma are called karma-vargana skandha. This universe is filled to the brim with pudgal astikaya. These pudgals are divided into various categories. One among them is the karman vargana category. It is this karman vargana which transforms into karma by interacting with the jiva and as a result of passionate feelings. But each jiva can absorb only as much karman vargana as is in its immediate proximity. Just as an iron ball heated in fire and thrown into water, absorbs only that water where it falls and not the water at distance. In the same way the jiva too absorbs only those karman varganas which are situated in the same space as the jiva is in. In fact, just as the iron ball attracts water from all sides as it is thrown into water, the jiva too absorbs karmas from all spaces of atmas.
Just as food in the stomach gradually transforms into fluids, blood etc., the karman varganas, which a jiva constantly absorbs also get distributed into as many parts as the karmas that are due to become entrapped.
The bondage of ayushya karma is never permanent. It is always momentary and once in a lifetime. The karma pudgalas which are absorbed at that moment are split into eight parts. If ayushya is not being added then they split into seven. In the tenth gunasthana, ayushya and mohaniya are left out and only six-way split occurs. In the thirteenth gunasthana only one karma is entrapped and hence the absorbed pudgala remains in one form.
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