Chapter 28 — Advice of Karma Vipak to the Harijan

Literal. Shri Guru explains the Harijan's previous-life karmas and the corresponding consequences. The chapter is essentially a compressed karmic-classifier — for each kind of misdeed, the consequence-class is named: one who steals gold suffers from syphilis; one who steals horses suffers from glands in the neck; one who takes another's wife becomes a Brahma-Rakshas; one who takes money offered to god becomes a leper. The chapter then lists prayashchittas (purifications): Brahmadand, gift of cow, gold coin, recitation of Gayatri, prescribed fasts.

Symbolic. Karma as bookkeeping operation — every action has a class-tagged consequence; remediation is action-class-specific.

Structural. Approximately 25–30 distinct misdeed-consequence pairs named in this single chapter. The taxonomy is unusually dense.