It is of five kinds:
- Right belief (samyaktva)
- Abstinence (vrata)
- Absence of remissness (apramāda)
- Absence of passion (akaṣāya)
- Total cessation of all activities of mind, speech and body (ayoga).
As the inlet of a pond is stopped, door of a building is shut, and the hole in the boat is stopped, similarly stopping the cause of influx of karma in the jīva is saṃvara.