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Kashayas
अयमात्मैव विद्रूपः शरीरो कर्मयोगतः । ध्यानाग्निदग्धकर्मा तु सिद्धात्मा स्यान्निरञ्जनः ॥४ ॥ अयमात्मैव संसार: कषायेन्द्रियनिजितः । तमेव तद्विजेतारं माक्षमाहुर्मनीषिणः ॥ ५ ॥
Meaning: As the jiva is engaged within the self, the state of right cognition is achieved. As long as the soul is bound by various karmas it is within the body and is identified as body. As the karmas are destroyed through the fire of shukla dhyana (supreme meditation), the soul achieves emancipation and becomes a siddhatma.
As long as it is a slave to the kashayas and sensuous pleasures it has worldly existence; once it is free from Kashayas ( emotions of anger, vanity, deceitfulness, greed etc.) and it is able to control the sense, the final liberation is reached. This is described as the state of moksha by the scholars.
स्युः कषायाः क्रोधमान - मायालोभाः शरीरिणाम् । चतुविधास्ते प्रत्येक भेदैः संज्वलनादिभिः || ६ || पक्षं संज्वलनः प्रत्याख्यानो मासचतुष्टयम् । अप्रत्याख्यानको वर्ष जन्मानन्तानुबन्धकः ॥७॥ वीतराग-यति-श्राद्ध-सम्यग्दृष्टित्वघातकाः । ते देवत्वमनुष्यत्व तिर्यक्त्व नरक प्रदाः ॥८॥
Meaning: All the jivas in embodied form are sullied with kashayas viz., anger, vanity, deceitfulness, and greed. Each of these have four varying degrees of intensity, which altogether constitute sixteen classes of kashayas.
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