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made by uplifting and respecting. Public feeling can be changed, and every man who speaks graciously and kindly to . an inferior is helping to change it. Meanwhile all whose own individual karma has brought them into the nation should recognise facts as they are, but should set to work to change those that are undesirable. National karma may be changed, like individual karma, but as the causes are of longer continuance so must be the effects, and the new causes introduced can only slowly modify the results outgrowing from the past.
NATIONAL DISASTERS
The karma which brings about seismic catastrophes and other national disasters includes in its sweep vast numbers of individuals whose special karma contains sudden death, disease, or prolonged physical suffering. It is interesting and instructive to notice
