The individual soul, distinct from God, can only act in collaboration with the Supreme Soul, for it is the latter who gives him directives to act or not. No one can act without the approval of the Supreme Soul, the Divine Witness, and it is also the Supreme Soul that consents or does not consent to their accomplishment.

The Supreme Soul in the heart of every living being witnesses all our actions and makes us reap the fruits of them. We ourselves may forget what we have done in our previous lives, but because the Lord has witnessed it, the consequences of our actions still fall on us, and we are obliged to suffer them, even if we do not know where they come from. The Supreme Soul resides in the heart of all living beings and directs them.

When changing bodies, the separate being forgets his past deeds, but the Supreme Soul, who knows the past, present and future, bears witness to his deeds. Living beings, conditioned by matter, are therefore directed in all their acts by the Supreme Soul. Under the guidance of the Supreme Soul, they get what they deserve, and still under its divine guidance, they are carried along by the body machine made up of material energy. As soon as the separate being is placed in a body, he has to act according to the conditionings of that body.

Apart from the Divine Witness, the celestial beings who are the executing assistants of the Supreme Soul, also see the guilty acts of men.

Materialists do not believe at all that everything in material nature is planned and supervised. They do not know that if they do something wrong, the various celestial beings, who are the assistant executors of the Divine Witness, also witness it.

For example, they enjoy many illicit pleasures, and blinded by desire, they believe that no one is watching them. However, Krishna's celestial attendants carefully note the guilty acts, and therefore they will be punished in as many ways. At present, in the dark age, the age of discord, hypocrisy, quarrels, indifference, decadence and sin, which is ours, many pregnancies are due to illicit sex outside marriage, and sometimes they are deliberately terminated by abortion. (See the consequences of this in Logos 435).

The celestial attendants of the Divine Witness also witness these sinful acts, and the man and woman responsible for these criminal acts are later punished by the rigorous laws of material nature. Illicit sexual activities are never excused, and those who indulge in them are punished life after life.

Let us understand that we cannot hide anything from Krishna, God, the Supreme Person and Divine Witness, nor from his celestial assistant performers, for they see all that we do, hear all that we say, and know all that we think.

We may lie to men, but not to them, for they know all about us.

We can escape the justice of men, but we can never escape the justice of God, it is impossible.