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bandha. The bondage and the association of kārmic particles to the soul pradeśas is called pradeśa bundha.
Gautama asked Mahāvira, “Bhagavan! Can we say that jīva and pudgala are intimately associated with each other in the form of bondage, close knit association as if they are one like the water and milk?"
Bhagavāna replied, Yes they are very closely bound together; and he explained the process of pradeśa bandha. "O Gautama", he said, sjust as a lake is full of water overflowing with the waves dashing against the banks and suppose a boat with innumerable holes at the bottom and the sides is left in the water, the water perforates into the boat and is full of water, the boat sinks, so also the soul is bound with kārmic particles and becomes one with each other. 2
The kārmic encrustations of the soul due to the activities of the soul creates āvarana (veil) and it obscures the knowledge, intuition, experiences of pleasure and pain and other types of experiences on the basis of the different capacities and original nature of the kārmic particles. When the kārmic particles which are material in nature get bound to the soul, they form themselves into different types. This is called prak știbandha.
Prak rtibandha and pradeśabandha are due to yoga and the diffe. rent forms of activity. The bondage of the karmic pariicles to the soul arising out of the yoga only and its forms of activity can be compared to the depositing of dust particles on a wall which is dry. They do not affect the wall and they can be blown away. Such types of kārmic bondage takes plac: in the 11th and 12th and 13th
1 (a) Bhagavatī 1, 4, 40 vrtti. (b) Navatativasāhityasangrala avacürni vrtyādisaine:ain navatalt
raprakarana, gātbā 71 ki vștti. (c) Navarattvasahity asangraha; Devānandasūrik rta saptatattra
prakarana adh, 4. 2 Bhagavati 1, 6, 3 (a) pañcama Karmagrantha, gātha 96 -joga payadipaesaṁ.
(b) Thāņānga 2, 4, 96 ţika.
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