Indeed, all creatures live according to the inspiration of a former life, even the Creator and the Ordainer of the universe, like a crane that liveth on the water (untaught by any one.
Impelled by the inspiration of a former life, all creatures visibly (reap) in this world the fruits of their acts.
Whatever acts, good or bad, a person performeth, know that they are the result of God's, arrangements agreeably to the acts of a former life.
I shall speak to you in detail of their hostility in former life.
As Krishna (in a former life) had repeatedly said, 'O, give me a husband!
A wretch that I am, some loving couple had doubtless been separated by me in a former life, for which, in this life, I am made to suffer the pangs of separation from thee.
Some loving couple had doubtless been separated by me in a former life, for which sinful act I am suffering this torture arising from my separation from thee.
And he lived there with that heavenly creature that had assumed a human form, obtained solely by his merits in a former life, as if with happy success.
Vasishta thought for a while and said, "In a former life, O Queen, you were a maid of a jungle tribe.
The rishi said, "In a former life, O Queen, you were a kite that flew high up in the heavens.
Learned or ignorant (in a former life) the creature that is, in this life, destitute of speech and understanding and hands and feet, is really destitute of everything.
The ape said, 'In my former life I used to appropriate the fruits belonging to Brahmanas.
In my former life I was a Sudra employed in the practice of severe penances.
In consequence of some meritorious act of a former life, I have not lost the memory of my previous lives.
For the time the memory of my former life was, as it were, in abeyance.
That power, already dulled in my case, the pages of Dickens restored by carrying me back through their associations to the standpoint of my former life.
I thought I was in my bed-chamber at home, and the half-dreaming, half-waking fancies which passed before my mind related to the incidents and experiences of my former life.
Alone it is sufficient for me, though it contradicts the advice of my friends and all my former life.
If what does is delusion, what to name my former life I am at a loss to know.
This constitutes in fact the only distinct remembrance in every human being of a former life.
Sufferings endured by the living were believed to be retribution for sins committed in a former life.
I did sin in my former life, and am now suffering due punishment.
The individual exists happily, or the reverse, according to his conduct in a former life; sorrow and disease are results of wrong living and wrong thinking in previous states of existence.
The same thing happens with regard to the thoughts of a man in whose mind the idea arises that in a former life he has set going within himself the force which causes him to experience a certain event.
Such suicide is popularly thought to be a result of cruelty in some previous state of being, or the consequence of having broken, in a former life, the mutual promise to become husband and wife.
Even the touching of sleeves in passing is caused by some relation in a former life.
But all that,' she replied, 'was in a former life.
Yet my friend only discovered accidentally the other day that his orderly remembers his former life.
The children knew everything in Okshitgon; they knew the roads and the houses and the people, and they recognised the clothes they used to wear in a former life; there was no doubt about it.
Perhaps because of some ill deed done in a former life I have suffered many troubles.
This too must spring From kindness of a former life.
Alas, it is because in a former life we neglected the ordinances[79] that we are now come to ruin.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "former life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
