To the first belong study of Scripture, devotion, purity, self-command, and obedience.
From the second proceed hypocritical actions, anxiety, disobedience, and self-indulgence.

The third produces avarice, atheism, indolence, and every act which a man is ashamed of doing.

The object of the first quality is virtue; of the second, worldly success; of the third, pleasure.

The souls in which the first quality is supreme rise after death to the condition of deities; those in whom the second rules pass into the bodies of other men; while those under the dominion of the third become beasts and vegetables.

Manu proceeds to expound, in great detail, this law of transmigration.