All 3 Uses

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Teddy, by J.D. Salinger
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From what I gather, you've acquired certain information, through meditation, that's given you some conviction that in your last incarnation you were a holy man in India, but more or less fell from Grace—†

incarnation = embodiment
But the point is you feel that in your last incarnation you more or less fell from Grace before final Illumination.†
But I wouldn't have had to get incarnated in an American body if I hadn't met that lady.†
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incarnated = embodied

Definitions:

(1) (incarnate)
embody (made real in a material sense) -- especially in the form of a human body, but sometimes figuratively
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)