In Jain दर्शन, bondage (bandha) is called anādi because this cycle of soul + karma has no first beginning that can be pointed to. It is not saying the soul is created as bound, but that from the beginning-less past, karma and soul have been in association.

How can we identify bondage as anādi?

We identify it by this reasoning:

• The soul is eternal.
• Karma is also beginning-less in its association with the soul.
• If we try to find the first moment when bondage started, we cannot reach it, because time itself in Jain view is beginning-less in this context.
• So bondage is called anādi, meaning without a first beginning.

This does not mean bondage is eternal in the sense that it can never end. In Jainism, bondage is anādi but sadi:

• anādi = no first beginning
• sadi = it can have an end through right knowledge, right faith, and right conduct

Why is the soul naturally attracted to karma?

Strictly speaking, the pure soul is not naturally attracted to karma.

What happens is:

• The soul possesses upayoga (awareness/activity of consciousness).
• Because of mithyātva (wrong belief), kaṣāya (anger, pride, deceit, greed), and yoga (activities of mind, speech, and body), the soul becomes a cause for influx of karma.
• So karma binds due to vibrational activity and passions, not because the soul’s true nature is to love bondage.

In Jain philosophy, the soul’s real nature is:

• knowledge
• perception
• bliss
• energy

Karma is like dust sticking to something that is moving and sticky. The soul itself is not dirty by nature.

Good example

A very good example is:

A lamp covered with soot

• The lamp’s nature is to give light.
• But if it is placed in a smoky place, soot keeps accumulating on it.
• The soot is not the nature of the lamp.
• It gathers because of the surrounding condition.

Similarly:

• The soul’s nature is purity and consciousness.
• Karma accumulates because of false belief, passions, and activity.
• The association is beginning-less, but it is not natural in the sense of being the soul’s own essence.

Another simple example:

Gold mixed with dirt from time immemorial

• Gold remains gold.
• Dirt may have been attached for a long time.
• The dirt did not create the gold’s nature.
• It only obscures it.

In short

• Bondage is anādi because no first beginning can be found.
• The soul is not inherently karmic.
• Karma binds due to passions, wrong belief, and activity.
• Since these causes can be destroyed, bondage can also be ended.

If you want, I can also explain this in very simple Gujarati/Hindi style or give the Jain scriptural terminology for it.