Wonderful indeed are the results of our deeds in a previous state of existence!
And then all there praised Kirtisena, saying--"This is some god come to us in the disguise of a physician, thanks to our merits in a previous state of existence.
Thus, O king, wives and others are friendly or hostile to men in this world by virtue of impressions in a previous state of existence.
The 'present state of meter' and the 'previous state of meter' are always specified, and the mere subtraction of the former from the latter gives the consumption.
Origen accounted for disparity of conditions at birth by the differences in the conduct of these same souls in a previous state.
She was told that this would be improper, because depravity always implies a previous state of innocence, whereas the mosquito has always been as bad as he now is.
The notion of a previous state of existence is found in the verses of Empedocles and in the fragments of Heracleitus.
Because men had abstract ideas in a previous state, they must have always had them, and their souls therefore must have always existed.
It is also argued that ideas, or rather ideals, must be derived from a previous state of existence because they are more perfect than the sensible forms of them which are given by experience.
In the Phaedo, as in the Meno, the origin of ideas is sought for in a previous state of existence.
The followers of the former had a perfect belief that each of them had lived in a previous state of existence.
The Brahmin taught that man suffers pain, misery, and death for certain crimes committed in a previous stateof existence; the Christian teaches that each one suffers for a fault committed by ancestors who lived thousands of years ago.
A certain gentleman of Shen-yu, who had taken the highest degree, could remember himself in a previous state of existence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "previous state" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
