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Q.VIII.1.19 Which are the purities of the five attitudes of carefulness and three
attitudes of restraints? A.VIII.1.19 The purities are: purity in reverence-in thought, in speech, in body, in
walking, in food accepted, in placing things, in lying down and in sitting.
Q.VIII.1.20 What is meant by passions? A. VIII.1.20 The dispositions, which cause distractions in the soul from its own
nature and so are the cause of the transmigration, are passions.
Q.VIII.1.21 How many types of passions are there? A.VIII.1.21 Passions are of twenty five sub types, namely four levels i.e. virulent,
mild, moderate (praty kh na) and subtle (samjavalana) of anger, pride, deceit, greed, and nine quasi passions namely jest, liking for certain objects, dislike for certain objects, grief or sorrow, fear, disgust, hankering after men, hankering after women and hankering after neutral gender.
Q.VIII.1.22 A.VIII.1.22
Till which stage of spiritual purification are passions existent? Passions exist from first till tenth stage of spiritual purification in some form or another.
Q.VIII.1.23 What is meant by activities (yoga)? A. VIII. 1.23 Actions of mind, body and speech that cause vibrations of the space
points of the soul are called activities.
Q.VIII.1.24 A. VIII. 1.24
How many types of activities are there? These are of fifteen types namely: Mental and speech activities are of four types each (true, false, both true and false and neither true nor false), seven activities of the body (gross, gross mixed, celestial, celestial mixed, conveyance, conveyance mixed, karma and luminous)
Q.VIII.1.25
A. VIII. 1.25
Which are the five causes of bondage in the first stage of spiritual purification? The five causes of bondage are wrong belief (mithy dar ana), nonabstinence (avirati), negligence (pram da), passions (kasya and activities (yoga).
Q.VIII.1.26
A.VIII.1.26
What are the causes of bondage in two through fourth stages of spiritual purification? Except wrong belief, all four causes of bondage commencing from nonabstinence are active in these stages of spiritual purification.
Q.VIII.1.27
What are the causes of bondage in the fifth stage of spiritual purification? The causes of bondage i.e. non-abstinence cum abstinence, negligence, the passions and activities are operational.
A.VIII.1.27
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