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Means of Self-Realization on the degree or progress of destruction of passions and attachment and consequent destruction of jñānāvaraṇīya karma.
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It need not be said that the attachment and passions relate to the family- members and possessions and are created by the gain or loss of the family members and possessions; and one's intelligence is conditioned by attachment, hatred and other passions and such perverted intelligence can never comprehend the concepts regarding philosophy. In Jain technical terms, destruction of attachment and passions causes destruction of mohaniya (deluding ) karma, which results in unfolding of knowledge ( ātma-jižāna), which is the very nature of the self. It may be mentioned that one who desires to cultivate non-attachment and passionlessness, has to decrease worldly activities which involve violence called ärambha as such activities are very much detrimental to the growth of non-attachment and the state of passionlessness.
It may be stated here that Jain karma- philosophy divides karma-bandha in eight main categories. One of them is jñānāvaraní ya karma, which again is divided into five types :
1) mati jñānāvaranīva
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