Uttarajjhayana 29.34

29.34

viniyaṭṭaṇayāe ṇaṃ bhaṃte! jīve kiṃ jaṇayai?
viniyaṭṭaṇayāe ṇaṃ pāvakammāṇaṃ akaraṇayāe abbhuṭṭhei, puvvabaddhāṇa ya nijjaraṇayāe taṃ niyattei, tao pacchā cāuraṃtaṃ saṃsārakaṃtāraṃ vīivayai|

"By turning back, Sir, what does the soul produce?"
"By turning back, it resolves not to commit evil deeds, and to dissociate previously bound deeds it desists from them; after that, it crosses over the four-ended wilderness of the cycle of rebirth."