Passage 7

karma dāṭa vaśamā naruḍā karma …

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However … thinks of You, that is just how You change. The fault is not Yours; it is ours. The fault is right … . As your feeling is, so is the form of God. If you hold a good … , God is in a good form. If you hold a bad feeling, God stays in a bad form. ‘Yadbhāvaṃ tadbhavati.’ If you take a vessel … , there is as much water as you want. The ocean is deep. Its form is endless … . As big as the vessel is, so much water comes. If you take a big vessel, water comes … that vessel.

Can karma be crossed, O man, can karma be crossed? Whether you dip it in a little spring or fill it from the seven seas, as big as the pot, so much the water; want it as you may, no more will come. ‖Karma‖ Though you read the weighty texts, though you worship the family gods, though you go to the deep forests, though you do hard tapas. ‖Karma‖

To know the … principle, it is not this japa that matters. Caste and religion are not its basis. Your own pure feeling is its basis. So do good karma. If we do not do good karma, no good result at all comes to us. We must take care that we hurt no one at all. These eight powers are in all beings. … The eight powers means this God of the eight forms; what is this eightfold form?

Śabda brahmamayī carācaramayi jyotirmayī vāṅmayi nityānanda mayi parātparamayi māyāmayi śrīmayi.

However many powers one sees, however many wonders one sees, however many great deeds one experiences, every now and then one keeps falling into this Māyā called humanness. Yaśodā saw the 14 worlds in Kṛṣṇa's mouth. ‘Fourteen worlds in the mouth of my sumāruni: this is my delusion,’ she thought. People take on their own worldly feelings.