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negligence (Pràmàda) and activities (Yoga). Here (1) Wrong-belief means considering truth as non-truth and non-truth as truth. Thus, dislike for the true things of the world and a liking for the false things of the world is a wrong-belief. Thus, wrong attitude, wrong taste, ignoble actions that cause lack of interest and faith in the doctrines preached by the Jain masters are ruled out. (2) Vowlessness means lack of compassion for the six kinds of embodied soul through lack of self-control or pledge. (3) Anger, pride,deception, greed, attachment, dislike, desire, laughing etc. are called passions. (4) Negligence means forgetting the reality of the self, doubt, lack of enthusiam in regard to religion etc. (5) An activity means the psychophysical activity of the mind, the speech, the body and the sense organs. Thus, the internal causes of bondage are fivefold.
The more you give up the above five causes of bondage of the soul, the more manifest become the virtues such as true faith etc. which belong to the soul, and the higher our soul goes by different stages as described above. Thus, for example, when the cause of bondage called wrong-belief is given up, our soul reaches the fourth stage of spiritiual development consisting of right faith (Samyak Darshan) and when the sins of violence etc. are partially given up through a pledge, the cause of bondage called 'Vowlessness' is removed, and our soul reaches the fifth stage(Deshavirati) of spiritual evolution which consits in putting a limit to place in which one can move. Further on, when our soul gives up the above sins completely or subtly, he reaches the sixth stage of spiritual
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