Bhagavad Gita 5.15
नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः । अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः ॥
nādatte kasyacit pāpaṃ na caiva sukṛtaṃ vibhuḥ | ajñānenāvṛtaṃ jñānaṃ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ ||
Translation
The all-pervading takes not the sin or the merit of anyone. Knowledge is enveloped in ignorance; thereby creatures are deluded.
Reflection
Whose verdict on your last failure have you been waiting for, when the ledger lives inside the same wheel you do?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Five
Nādatte kasyacit pāpaṃ na sukṛtam. He takes neither sin nor merit. The lord does not collect your moral ledger. The ledger is inside the wheel; he is not. Then the diagnosis: knowledge has been covered, ajñānena āvṛtam, by ignorance, and that is why creatures are confused. The verse cuts the popular picture of a judge keeping accounts and replaces it with a problem the creature has to solve from inside. Aurobindo: the verse moves the moral question from the divine office to the creature's own knowing.