Passage 2

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But its result, for its part, does not let him go. All the results of the karma we do come piled together. We cannot take any one of them out and put it aside. As the deeds we do, so the results keep coming: good for good, bad for bad. Some people look very great to the eye. The words they speak are very grand. But between their words and their deeds there is no match at all. Yet when they have to undergo the fitting result of the misdeeds they have done, they show their face to no one. Then their secret comes out. However many great deeds we may do, we cannot escape experiencing the result of karma that is ours to experience. We must always keep this in mind.

Others may not know, but does Īśvara not know!

Embodiments of Prema! This creation is very wondrous and strange. God's doings are beyond the reach of the human intellect.

Wondrous, to the three worlds purifying, sickles to the creeper of worldly life, true friends, to the forest of the sages spring: the stories of Lord Viṣṇu.

We do not see divinity, but divinity itself makes us experience everything. We cannot cover up in any way the karma we have done. Some people look as though they do no wrong at all. But though others may not know, can it stay unknown to Īśvara! We cannot hide anything from God. You may not be able to understand now the words I speak. But at the time you experience it, you yourselves will know. You read many books. In those books there is knowledge enough. But are you putting into practice all that you have read? No, no. You take only what you need and what suits you; the rest you leave aside.