A country is subjected to many changes during the course of its history

"Even though the name of a river stays the same - Thames, Mississippi, Seine, etc. - the water that flows in its bed changes every day. The inhabitants of the river, the billions of drops of water, are simply passing through and as they flow towards the sea, others take their place. Once they arrive in the sea they are heated by the sun and rise up into the atmosphere as vapour and cloud. Until the day they fall back onto the ground in the form of rain or snow and flow down the mountains as torrents and rivers.

Like rivers, countries also tend to keep the same name, but they are inhabited by a succession of different beings, all of whom come from elsewhere and are then born into that country as they reincarnate. A country could also be compared to a house, which is destined to accommodate one particular set of occupants for a number of years and then another group of occupants for a subsequent number of years. And depending on what kind of people live in the house, you either hear music and singing or shouting and arguing. Or it could be that the house is immersed in silence. But it is always the same house; the house itself does not change. And in this very same way a country is subjected to many changes during the course of its history."