गोविन्द भाष्य (श्रील बलदेव विद्याभूषण - अचिन्त्यभेदाभेद वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र भाष्य सटीक)

"One cannot attain liberation as long as his past karmic reactions persist."
In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.87.40) the personified Vedas pray to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead:
tvad-avagamī na vetti bhavad-uttha-śubhāśubhayoḥ
guṇa-viguṇānvayāṁs tarhi deha-bhṛtāṁ ca giraḥ
"When a person realizes You, he no longer cares about His good and bad
fortune arising from past pious and sinful acts, since it is You alone who control
this good and bad fortune. Such a realized devotee also disregards what ordinary
living beings say about him."****
In this way the scriptures explain that, by the Supreme Lord's will, the living
entity remains in his material body until his ārabdha-phala karmic reactions are
destroyed. Transcendental knowledge is very powerful. It can at once burn away
all past karmic reactions, leaving behind no remainder. In this it is like a blazing
fire that at once burns up any kind of fuel that may be supplied.
Although these statements of scripture should be accepted, still it is seen that
many great sages, wise with transcendental knowledge, still remain living within
material bodies. In that situation it should be accepted that, by the will of the
Lord, these sages stay in this world, their ārabdha-phala karmic reactions not yet
exhausted, for the purpose of teaching the truth of spiritual life to the others. As a
jewel or other impediment may stop the burning of a fire, so transcendental
knowledge's power to burn away all karmic reactions may be stopped in certain
circumstances like this.
Here someone may object: Without taking shelter of a series of past karmic
reactions, transcendental knowledge does not become manifested. Those karmic
reactions may be compared to a potter's wheel. As, once begun to spin, the potter's
wheel gradually stops of its own accord, so past karmic reactions gradually come
to a stop.
To this objection I reply: No. It is not so. Transcendental knowledge is very
powerful. It can at once uproot all karmic reactions. It is only the will of the
Supreme Lord that stops transcendental knowledge. When a heavier stone is
placed on a spinning potters wheel, the wheel comes to an abrupt halt.
(Transcendental knowledge stops all karmic reactions in a way like that.)
Therefore what was said in the beginning about transcendental knowledge is right
and true.