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2. Indulgence or Lack of Discipline - It keeps the embodied
soul constantly engaged in intense activities, which incurs
further karmic bondage. 3. Negligence - It causes unintentional activities yet it results
in avoidable karmic bondage. 4. Passions - Passions like anger, pride, deceit and greed
make one lose the sense of balance and discretion and under such a state of imbalance the soul indulges in
unimaginable sins. 5. Yoga - In Jaina parlance the aggregate of body mind and
speech is known as yoga. Though the reasons for indulging in any activity are the aforementioned four factors, all activities are carried out by these three agencies.
Karma At Material And Volitional Levels -
Although we have listed five causes of karmic association and bondage of the soul, they can all be contained in only the last two namely – Passions and Yoga. Also, it may not be incorrect if we said that the passions are primarily responsible for such an association and bondage for even the activities of the yoga do not result in karmic bondage in the absence of passions. Yet, again, the effect of four passions - anger, pride, guile and greed – may also be ascribed to only two reasons of attachment and aversion as these two only give rise to passions. We must be clear that what we do with our body and speech are actions, what we do with our mind are thoughts and passions or attachment and aversion are only psychic conditions or volitional dispositions.
Now, we may have the following two situations: – 1. Physical mental and vocal activities influenced by
attachment and aversion. 2. Passionate thoughts without any activity of the body and
speech.
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