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Actually, everybody is being carried by the laws of material nature, but a foolish person is thinking that he is doing himself. So here it is said that prayena etad bhagavata isvarasya vicestitam. We cannot do anything without the will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Just like in state you cannot do anything without the sanction of the government, similarly the supreme state, the supreme order-giver, Krsna or God, without His sanction we cannot do anything. But here it is said that mitho nighnanti bhutani bhavayanti ca yan mithah. Sometimes by His will we kill one another, and sometimes we give protection one another. So does it mean that in different time Krsna is giving different intelligence? No. Krsna's action is daiva, superior. Just like the high court, the judge is... Somebody condemning somebody that "This man should be hanged," and other man, "Yes, he must get the degree. He will get the millions of dollars from that person." Now, is he partial? He is giving somebody millions of dollars and somebody is ordered to be hanged. Is he partial? No. He is not partial. He is simply administering the law. That's all. This man has created such a situation that he should be condemned to death, and this man has created such situation that he will be rewarded by ten thousand and millions of dollars. It is his action.

Karmana daiva-netrena. We are acting, and daiva-netrena, by superior administration, daiva-netrena, we are getting different types of body, and suffering or enjoying the consequence. This is our position. Krsna is... God is... It is said in the Bhagavad-gita, samo 'ham sarva-bhutesu: "I am equal to everyone." Otherwise how He is God? God is not partial, that somebody should be killed and somebody should be rewarded with ten thousand dollars. No. It is our own work, we create such situation. That you should know. We forget. Now, somebody I kill in my last life. Just like here, if I kill somebody, then I shall be killed also, by the law, nature or law of God. Similarly, I forget that because I kill somebody, now that somebody is killing me. So forget. But Krsna reminds, "Now this person killed you," or "This child killed you last life. Now you can kill in the womb. Now you kill." Vicestitam. He reminds. Because Krsna is described: anumanta. Anumanta upadrasta. He is witness. Now this man has killed this man. Now he gets the opportunity to kill him again. And Krsna reminds you, "Kill him. Here is opportunity." This is the position. Don't think when it is said that isvarasya vicestitam, it is by the will, that will, because He is equal to everyone, so everyone should get chance to retaliate. That is going on.

So God is not partial, He is impartial. Samo 'ham sarva-bhutesu na me dvesyo 'sti na priyah. Nobody in the material world... Just like jail superintendent or the government. The government is not partial. Government is equal to everyone, but everyone is enjoying or suffering according to his own work. So that is reminded. That is reminded and sanction given that "This body, this being, killed you in your last life. Now I give you sanction, you can kill him." This is called nighnanti. Mitho nighnanti. And "This man gave you protection, so you give him protection." So what is the wrong there? There is nothing wrong. It is equal justice. Because... Don't think that because God or Krsna gives sanction, vicestitam, therefore He is partial. No. He is always impartial. We are suffering our own activities. Karmana daiva-netrena. We are getting different types of bodies, suffering.

Ref: Srila Prabhupada's Lecture, December 3, 1973, Los Angeles.