With mind and senses fully controlled, with the knots of egoism and mineness undone, he wandered about as a mendicant. People, however, did not understand him. Some took him for mad man, spat on him, caged him and tortured him. The Lord who is seated in my heart is a pure witness of all this. Even so, karma affects only the body which the karma gave birth to.
Body is material and the soul is pure consciousness.
If time is held responsible for our sorrows it incurs no blame either, for the soul and time are identical with the supreme being. Hence, the atman which is omnipresent and therefore not limited, which is pure consciousness and therefore not subject to materiality, has nothing whatsoever to do with sorrow. He who has realised this truth is never afraid of any being. This indeed is the highest yoga. He who contemplates this sublime and inspiring narrative of Avanti Brahmana is not affected by dualities like pleasure and pain, happiness and unhappiness.