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deceitfulness, and greed. As a consequence of the rise of passions in the soul, physical matter gets bonded with it, transforming itself into karmic matter, which then becomes known as the karmas of various kinds.
The four types of passions, mentioned above, are subdivided into four classes each according to their potency: 1. anantānubandhi – most malignant: that which leads to
endless cycle of worldly existence owing to wrong faith. 2. apratyākhyāna – highly malignant: that which arrests
even partial abstinence of the householder. 3. pratyākhyāna – malignant: that which enables the
householder's vows to be observed but stands in the way
of the more rigorous vows of the ascetic. 4. samjualana - gleaming: that which disturbs perfect
conduct. It gleams along with self-restraint or even in its presence self-restraint shines. It only debars the soul from
pure self-concentration. The potency of the four classes of passions has been likened to a line drawn on stone, on earth, on dust, and on water, respectively.
Jain, Vijay K. (2014), “Ācārya Pūjyapāda's Iştopadeśa – The Golden Discourse”, p. 87-88.
Jain, Champat Rai elucidates:
Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the four principal kinds of passions (kaşāyas). They are dealt with under four different heads in the Jaina Siddhānta, according to the degree of their intensity. The intensest, called the anantānubandhī, is the worst kind and prevents the acquisition of Right Faith itself; the intenser type, known as the apratyākhyāna, obstructs Right Conduct altogether and hinders even the observance of the minor vows of the householder; the intense, designated the
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