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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 6]
TEXT 48
यस्मिन् यदा पुष्करनाममायया दुरन्तया स्पृष्टधियः पृथग्दृशः । कुर्वन्ति तत्र ह्यनुकम्पया कृपां न साधवो दैवबलात्कृते क्रमम् ॥४८॥
yasmin yadā puṣkara-nābha-māyayā durantayā spṛṣṭa-dhiyaḥ pṛthag-dṛśaḥ kurvanti tatra hy anukampayā kṛpāṁ na sādhavo daiva-balāt kṛte kramam
yasmin —in some place;  yadā —when;  puṣkara-nābha-māyayā —by the illusory energy of Puṣkaranābha, the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  durantayā —insurmountable;  spṛṣṭa-dhiyaḥ —bewildered;  pṛthak-dṛśaḥ —the same persons who see differently;  kurvanti —do;  tatra —there;  hi —certainly;  anukampayā —out of compassion;  kṛpāṁ —mercy;  na —never;  sādhavaḥ —saintly persons;  daiva-balāt —by Providence;  kṛte —being done;  kramam —prowess.
TRANSLATION
My dear lord, if in some places materialists who are already bewildered by the insurmountable illusory energy of the Supreme Godhead sometimes commit offenses, a saintly person, with compassion, does not take this seriously. Knowing that they committed the offenses because they were overpowered by the illusory energy, he does not show his prowess to counteract them.
PURPORT
It is said that the beauty of a  tapasvī  or saintly person is forgiveness. There are many instances in the spiritual history of the world in which many saintly persons, although unnecessarily harassed, did not take action, although they could have done so. Parīkṣit Mahārāja, for example, was unnecessarily cursed by a  brāhmaṇa  boy, and this was very much regretted by the boy's father, but Parīkṣit Mahārāja accepted the curse and agreed to die within a week as the  brāhmaṇa  boy desired. Parīkṣit Mahārāja was the Emperor and was full in power both spiritually and materially, but out of compassion and out of respect for the  brāhmaṇa  community, he did not counteract the action of the  brāhmaṇa  boy but agreed to die within seven days. Because it was desired by Kṛṣṇa that Parīkṣit Mahārāja agree to the punishment so that the instruction of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam