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I am the Soul
had brought them all up in an identical atmosphere. It was the same land, fertiliser, water, light and nurture that all got. Other seeds from the same pod have boiled well, but these four seeds have remained thus. How? Even I do not know how. These were to be so and so they are.
Brothers! Asks the scientists, send the seeds to a laboratory! But will that reveal why? No, never. Well, same goes for bhavyatva and abhavyatva. It is jiva's parinamika bhava. It is unintentional.
The bhavya jivas can break through the bonds of karma. Therefore, now Srimadji tells us what the bondages of karma are and how many -
कर्म अनंत प्रकारनां, तेमां मुख्ये आठ; मां मुख्ये मोहनीय, हणाय ते कहुं पाठ
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We have been told that karmas are of eight types. But here it is said they are of infinite types.
Every jiva has a bondage of karma from time to time. We have already deliberated upon the reasons for this bondage. A jiva gets bound with karmas as a result of feelings of attachment and aversion. We all know from experience that these results are not always identical. There is always a loss and gain of the six gunas of intense or moderate feelings. And each one of them has so many types! A jiva may develop a moderate feeling of attachment once, at the next moment it might be moderate of a different type and another type in the third moment. Thus moderate feeling of attachment itself can be of several types. Similarly, there would be several types of more moderate and most moderate. As also several types of intense, more intense and most intense.
In this regard, one jiva in just one life, will be affected by infinite types of feelings of attachment etc. Whenever and whatever be the affectation, matching karmas get bound at the
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