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CHAPTER EIGHT
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Kaşāya :
Kasāya means violating the limit of equanimity.
Yoga :
Yoga means an act of manas, speech or body.
The causes of bondage tatpradosa etc. enumerated in the chapter six and the causes-of-bondage mithyātva etc. enumerated here differ from one another in that the former are a special cause-of-a special karma-type while the latter are a common cause-of-bondage obtaining in the case of all the karma-types. From among the five causes-of-bondage mithyātva etc. when an earlier meritioned one obtains a later mentioned one must obtain: for example, when mithyātva obtains the four causes avirati etc. must obtain when auirati obtains the three causes pramāda etc. must obtain. On the contrary, when a later mentioned member of the series in question obtains an earlier mentioned one might or might not obtain; for example, when avirati obtains then in the first gunasthāna mithyātva too obtains, but in the second, third and fourth gunastahana there obtains no mithyātva in spite of avirati obtaining. The same conditions should be applied to the remaining cases as well. 1.
The Nature-of-bondage :
On account of its association with a kasāya a jīva receives into itself physical particles liable to become karma. 2.
That is called bondage. 3.
There are numerous vargaņās or groupings of pudgala. From among them the grouping that possesses the capacity to undergo transformation of the form of karma is received into itself by a jīva and is attached by it to its constituent-units in a particular fashion. That is to say, even while amūrta or nontangible by nature a jīva since it has been associated with karmas since a beginingless time has become akin to something mūrta; and it is as such that it receives into itself the karmic particles that are mūrta.
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