The virtuous become endued with great virtue and the sinful become the perpetrators of wicked deeds. Men's actions follow them and influenced by these (fruits of his actions) they are born again.
सुपुण्यशीला हि भवन्ति पुण्या नराधमाः पापकृतो भवन्ति। स्ततः समुत्पद्यति भावितस्तैः॥