Through acts good and bad done by himself in his pristine lives, man acquires gold and animals, and wives, and children, and honour of birth, and costly possessions, and his entire affluence.
स्वरूपतामात्मकृतं च विस्तरं कुलान्वयं द्रव्यसमृद्धिसंचयम्। नरो हि सर्वो लभते यथाकृतं शुभाशुभेनात्मकृतेन कर्मणा॥