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  • If any of the kashayas, krodh, maan, maya,lobh exceed a period of one year, does it mean a it now has anantanubandhi kashay?
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    If any of the kashayas, krodh, maan, maya,lobh exceed a period of one year, does it mean a it now has anantanubandhi kashay?

    5 months ago 95

    No. The duration (even more than one year) does not by itself make a krodh, mān, māyā or lobh into anantānubandhi kaṣāya.

    In Jain philosophy, anantānubandhi is defined mainly by intensity and effect, not by time:

    • What is anantānubandhi kaṣāya?
    The level of passion so intense that it: - Completely blocks/ destroys samyak‑darshan (right faith), and - Definitely leads to a narak gati (hellish birth) in future.
    • Other three grades of the same four kaṣāyas:
    1. Anantānubandhi – most intense, cuts off right faith. 2. Apratyākhyāna – obstructs taking major vows (mahāvrat). 3. Pratyākhyāna – obstructs higher renunciation, but milder than above. 4. Saṃjvalana – very slight; compatible with samyak‑darshan; remains even in high spiritual stages before keval‑jñān.

    So:

    • If someone keeps a mild anger or greed feeling for more than one year, it can still be only saṃjvalana or pratyākhyāna level.
    • It becomes anantānubandhi only when:
    - The passion is very intense and deep‑rooted, - It produces strong rāg–dveṣ, - And most importantly, it prevents or destroys right faith and surely results in hellish karma bondage.

    Both Digambar and Śvetāmbara agree on these four intensities of each kaṣāya; they differ slightly in technical details and stage‑descriptions, but none say “if it lasts 1 year, it automatically becomes anantānubandhi.”

    In practice, any long‑lasting kaṣāya (even if not fully anantānubandhi) is still very dangerous, so Jain āchāryas strongly advise continuous efforts: pratikramaṇ, kṣamā (forgiveness), vinay (humility), svādhyāy and dhyān to weaken it as early as possible.

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