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A STUDY IN KARMA
The ego prefers to seize the opportunity and to get rid of the karma, and his body is struck away with the rest.
How.THE EGO SELECTS
Individual characteristics developed in one life may bring their owner, in another life into a nation which offers peculiar facilities for their exercise. Thus a man who had developed a strong concrete mind, apt for commerce, say, in the vaishya (merchant) caste in India, may be thrown down into the United States of America, and there become a Rockefeller. In his new personality he will see that vast wealth is only tolerable when used for national purposes, and he will carry out in America the vaishya ideal that the man who has gathered huge wealth becomes a steward in the national household, to distribute wisely for the general benefit the stores
