If, hiding behind the Lord of all to cover the lapses of effort that arise in sādhakas, one says that God makes a distinction between sinners and the meritorious, between jñānis and ajñānis, such talk is meaningless, vain fancy. God never has any such distinctions. If God truly had such distinctions, sinners could not live in the world for even a minute. God makes no such distinction; that is why everyone is living in the world. This truth is known to the jñāni alone; the rest do not know it. That is why they fall into the mad delusion that God is somewhere far away from them, and suffer.