ii.6.4.

8).
The principle of _karma_ if not the theory, is already known, but the very thing that the completed philosopher abhors is looked upon as a blessing, viz., rebirth, body and all, even on earth.[56] Thus in one passage, as a reward for knowing some divine mystery (as often happens, this mystery is of little importance, only that 'spring is born again out of winter'), the savant is to be 'born again in this world' _( punar ha v[=a] 'asmin loke bhavati, Cat.

Br._ i.5.3.

14).
The esoteric wisdom is here the transfer of the doctrine of metempsychosis to spring.

Man has no hope of immortal life (on earth);[57] but, by establishing the holy fires, and especially by establishing in his inmost soul the immortal element of fire, he lives the full desirable length of life (_ib_.ii.2.2.14.