Literary notes about Transmigration (AI summary)
In literary contexts, transmigration is most often employed as a metaphor for the soul’s journey through various states of existence, whether as a literal process of reincarnation or as a symbol for spiritual transformation. Writers explore this concept in diverse ways—from its association with karma and rebirth in spiritual doctrines ([1], [2], [3]) to its use as a narrative device in historical texts and mythological accounts, where it represents both salvation and punishment ([4], [5], [6]). Philosophers and novelists alike have used the term to evoke the mysterious continuity of life, contrasting it with ideas of personal memory and eternal identity ([7], [8]), while ancient treatises further illuminate its role in explanations of human destiny and the metaphysical order ([9]).
- Karma (works, or rebirth according to one's acts), 262 . See Transmigration.
— from New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth CenturyA Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by John Morrison - They believe in what is called the transmigration of souls, or the passing of the soul, after death, into another body.
— from Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by John Scudder - One of the essential ideas of Catharism, then, was the transmigration of souls.
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville - And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration of Babylon.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - The end of transmigration is salvation, which is represented as an immortal existence in heaven.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - Easing thir passage hence, for intercourse, Or transmigration, as thir lot shall lead.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton - —The transmigration of souls is represented in the myth much as in the Phaedrus and Timaeus.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - But these souls pass from one body into another; this is the transmigration of souls.
— from History Of Ancient Civilization by Charles Seignobos - The most important and detailed account of the theory of transmigration which we possess from Vedic times is supplied by the Chhāndogya Upanishad .
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
