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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Womb-Birth: The Return to the Human World (40.3)
If birth is to be obtained over a heap of impurities, a sensation that it is sweet-smelling will attract one towards that impure mass, and birth will be obtained thereby.
Bhagavad Gita
Kṣhetra Kṣhetrajña Vibhāga Yoga (13.21)
Purusha, when seated in Prakriti, experiences the qualities born of Prakriti. Attachment to the qualities is the cause of his birth in good and evil...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (341)
A creature's pleasures are extravagant and luxurious; sunk in lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo (again and again) birth and decay.
Bhagavad Gita
Daivāsura Sampad Vibhāga Yoga (16.20)
Entering into demoniac wombs, the deluded ones, in birth after birth, without ever reaching Me, O son of Kunti, pass into a condition still lower...
Bhagavad Gita
Vijnana Yoga (7.27)
From the delusion of pairs caused by desire and aversion, O Bharata, all beings are subject to illusion at birth, O harasser of thy foes.
Bhagavad Gita
Guṇa Traya Vibhāga Yoga (14.15)
Meeting death in Rajas, he is born among those attached to action; and, dying in Tamas, he is born in the wombs of the irrational.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (50)
Thus the Birth gets an Essence that has Sharpness from the Harshness, and Sweetness, Thinness, and Expansion from the Light. And now when the Flash...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.8)
Verily, this person, by being born and obtaining a body, is joined with evils. When he departs, on dying, he leaves evils behind.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 10 (7)
But those whose conduct has been evil, will quickly attain an evil birth, the birth of a dog, or a hog, or a Kandâla....
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 2 (6)
'And he who desires the world of perfumes and garlands (gandhamâlya), by his mere will perfumes and garlands come to him, and having obtained the...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (13)
From this root there grow and ripen the fruits of birth, of the life-span, of all that is tasted in life.
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.38)
That pleasure which arises from the contact of the sense-organ with the object, at first like nectar, in the end like poison, that is declared to be...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 17 (5)
His death is the Avabhritha ceremony (when the sacrificial Vessels are carried away to be cleansed).
Katha Upanishad
Third Vallī (7)
'He who has no understanding, who is unmindful and always impure, never reaches that place, but enters into the round of births.'
Bhagavad Gita
Dhyāna Yoga (6.42)
Else, he is born in a family of wise Yogins only. This, verily, a birth like this, is very hard to obtain in this world.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XX: The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self - Restraint. (19)
For as the exhalations which arise from the earth, and from marshes, gather into mists and cloudy masses; so the vapours of fleshly lusts bring on the...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (59)
But seeing it rises up so swiftly, that the Birth elevates itself so suddenly before it be fully affected with the Water of Life, thereupon that Terro...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (52)
Thus the Bitterness now rejoices in its Mother, and strengthens itself therein, and for great Joy rises up through all the Essences, and declares to t...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.37)
That which is like poison at first, like nectar at the end, that pleasure is declared to be Sâttvic, born of the purity of one's own mind.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.23)
When she is about to bring forth, he sprinkles her with water, saying: — 'Like as the wind doth agitate A lotus-pond on every side, So also let thy...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 3: Of the endless and numberless manifold engendering, [generating,] or Birth of the eternal Nature. The Gates of the great Depth. (13)
How should there not be Joy and Love, where, in the very Midst of Death, the eternal Life is generated, and where there is no Fear of any End, nor can...