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CHAPTER EIGHT
An account of the vratas and donation having been offered in connection with the account of the fundamental verity āsrava or inflow there now begins an account of the fundamental verity bandha or bondage.
First of all the causes of bondage are mentioned :
Mithyātva or absence of right faith, avirati or absence of discipline, pramāda or negligence, kasāya or passion, yoga or activity-these five are the causes of bondage. 1.
The nature of bondage is going to be described in the next aphorism; only its causes are being mentioned here. As regards the number of the causes of bondage three traditions are observable. According to one tradition kasāya and yoga-only these two are the causes of the bondage; according to another mithyātva, avirati, kasāya and yoga—these four are the causes of bondage; as for the third tradition it adds pramāda to these latter four causes and thus makes their number five. Thus even if these traditions differ from one another as to the number and hence as to the names concerned they do not at all differ as to the essentials of the matter. E. g. pramāda is but a type of asamyama or un-restrain and so is included either in avirati or in kasāya; and it is from this viewpoint that in the texts like Karmaprakrti etc. there have been enumerated just four causes of bondage. Viewed minutely both mithyātva and avirati are not essentially different from kaşāya; so in the last count kasāya and yoga these two are the only causes of bondage.
Question : If this is how things stand then the question is
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