पुरुषः प्रकृतिस्थो हि भुङ्क्ते प्रकृतिजान्गुणान्।कारणं गुणसङ्गोऽस्य सदसद्योनिजन्मसु।।13.22।।
puruṣhaḥ prakṛiti-stho hi bhuṅkte prakṛiti-jān guṇān kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo ’sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu
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A Reading - Rantideb
Why: the Self, seated in nature, experiences the qualities born of nature, attachment to these qualities is the cause of birth in good and evil wombs, tracing attachment to whatever nature produces as the actual mechanism behind repeated, patterned experience.
In life: getting attached to a particular kind of experience, comfort, praise, a certain outcome, tends to produce more of the same pattern recurring in your life, not because of fate, but because attachment itself shapes your subsequent choices.
Teaching: identify a recurring pattern in your own life you'd like to break, and examine what specific attachment might be quietly perpetuating it, addressing the attachment directly tends to be more effective than trying to force a different outcome while the underlying attachment remains unchanged.