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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 10]
been blinded by the pride of celestial opulence and have become attached to women, I shall relieve them of their false prestige.
PURPORT
When a  sādhu  chastises or punishes someone, he does not do so for revenge. Mahārāja Parikṣit had inquired why Nārada Muni was subject to such a spirit of revenge ( tamaḥ ). But this was not  tamaḥ , for Nārada Muni, in full knowledge of what was for the good of the two brothers, wisely thought of how to cure them. Vaiṣṇavas are good physicians. They know how to protect a person from material disease. Thus they are never in  tamo-guṇa .  Sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate  (Bg. 14.26). Vaiṣṇavas are always situated on the transcendental platform, the Brahman platform. They cannot be subject to mistakes or the influence of the modes of material nature. Whatever they do, after full consideration, is meant just to lead everyone back home, back to Godhead.
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यदिमौ लोकपालस्य पुत्रौ भूत्वा तमःप्लुतौ । न विवाससमात्मानं विजानीतः सुदुर्मदौ ॥२०॥ अतोऽर्हतः स्यावरतां स्यातां नैवं यथा पुनः । स्मृतिः स्यान्मत्प्रसादेन तत्रापि मदनुग्रहात् ॥२१॥ वासुदेवस्य सान्निध्यं लब्ध्वा दिव्यशरच्छते । वृत्ते स्वलोकतां भूयो लब्धभक्ती भविष्यतः ॥२२॥
yad imau loka-pālasya putrau bhūtvā tamaḥ-plutau na vivāsasam ātmānam vijānītaḥ sudurmadau
ato 'rhataḥ sthāvaratām syātām naivam yathā punaḥ smṛtiḥ syān mat-prasādena tatrāpi mad-anugrahāt