Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book II · 13 of 55 · tr. Charles Johnston
Sutra 13
From this root there grow and ripen the fruits of birth, of the life-span, of all that is tasted in life. Fully to comment on this, would be to write a treatise on Karma and its practical working in detail, whereby the place and time of the next birth, its content and duration. are determined; and to do this the present commentator is in no wise fitted. But this much is clearly understood: that, through a kind of spiritual gravitation, the incarnating self is drawn to a home and life-circle which will give it scope and discipline; and its need of discipline is clearly conditioned by its character, its standing, its accomplishment.
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The transmigration of the soul across lives.
The passage centrally discusses the 'incarnating self' being drawn to a home and life-circle for the next birth, detailing how this transmigration is determined by karma and personal character.
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