In Jainism, kashaya (kaṣāya; loose translation: Passion) are aspects of a person that can be gained during their worldly life.
The karmas are literally bound on account of the stickiness of the soul due to existence of various passions or mental dispositions.
[2] The passions like anger, pride, deceit and greed are called sticky (kaṣāyas) because they act like glue in making karmic particles stick to the soul resulting in bandha.
Anger and pride when not suppressed, and deceit and greed when arising: all these four black passions water the roots of re-birth.
The degrees of pride are to be likened unto a pillar of stone, a bone, a piece of wood, and the vine of a creeper; the inflexibility correspondingly decreases.
The species of deceitfulness are to be compared to a bamboo root, the horn of a ram, the urine of a cow, and a piece of wood.