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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 10]
special mercy, desired to give them a special curse. Thus he spoke as follows.
PURPORT
Although in the beginning Nārada Muni appeared very angry and cursed them, at the end the two demigods Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva were able to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, face to face. Thus the curse was ultimately auspicious and brilliant. One has to judge what kind of curse Nārada placed upon them. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura gives herein a good example. When a father finds his child deeply asleep but the child has to take some medicine to cure some disease, the father pinches the child so that the child will get up and take the medicine. In a similar way, Nārada Muni cursed Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva in order to cure their disease of material blindness.
TEXT 8
श्रीनारद उवाच
न ह्यन्यो जुषतो जोष्यान् बुद्धिभ्रंशो रजोगुणः ।
श्रीमदादाभिजात्यादिर्यत्र स्त्री घृतमासवः ॥ ८ ॥
śrī-nārada uvāca 
    na hy anyo juṣato joṣyān 
    buddhi-bhramśo rajo-guṇaḥ 
    śrī-madād ābhijātyādir 
    yatra strī dyūtam āsavaḥ
śrī-nāradaḥ uvāca—Nārada Muni said;  na —there is not;  hi —indeed;  anyaḥ —another material enjoyment;  juṣataḥ —of one who is enjoying;  joṣyān —things very attractive in the material world (different varieties of eating, sleeping, mating and defense);  buddhi-bhramśaḥ —such enjoyments attract the intelligence;  rajaḥ-guṇaḥ —being controlled by the mode of passion;  śrī-madāt —than riches;  ābhijātya-ādiḥ —among the four material principles (attractive personal bodily features, birth in an aristocratic family, being very learned, and being very rich);  yatra —wherein;  strī —women;  dyūtam —gambling;  āsavaḥ —wine (wine, women and gambling are very prominent).