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beneficence to that man whose evil karma of the 

 present moment has been exhausted by his suffer- 

 ing; the Deva thus says to you: " Man, your 

 brother man is starving, give him the relief it is his 

 karma to receive, and be my agent in carrying out 

 the law." But if you refuse the God, if, blinded by 

 ignorance or indifference, you turn aside and will 

 not carry his message to your brother, he will not 

 for that be thwarted, he will find some other agent, 

 or, as a last resource, he will do it himself by some 

 act that may seem miraculous in the eyes of the 

 blind, for the purpose of the God may not be 

 blocked ; but for those who have refused to act as 

 his agents, who have refused to act as his 

 messengers, they have made for themselves the 

 karma of being left unassisted when the hour of 

 their own need shall strike in the future. For the 

 administrators of the good law forget not; every 

 debt is collected, every creditor is paid in full. 

 But you may say that it does not follow that a 

 man's karma is exhausted when you meet him; 

 true, but that is not your business, it is the business 

 of the guiding God, and he will frustrate the physical 

 aid if the karma be still evil. If you have that 

 opportunity given you of making good karma, you 

 have all the merit of your willingness to act, you 

 have all the virtue of your readiness to sacrifice ; 



