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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 14]
maitreya uvāca ittham viparyaya-matiḥ pāpīyān utpatham gataḥ anunīyamānas tad-yācñām na cakre bhraṣṭa-maṅgalaḥ
maitreyaḥ uvāca—Maitreya said; ittham—thus; viparyaya-matiḥ—one who has developed perverse intelligence; pāpīyān—most sinful; utpatham—from the right path; gataḥ—having gone; anunīyamānaḥ—being offered all respect; tat-yācñām—the request of the sages; na—not; cakre—accepted; bhraṣṭa—bereft of; maṅgalaḥ—all good fortune.
TRANSLATION
The great sage Maitreya continued: Thus the King, who became unintelligent due to his sinful life and deviation from the right path, became actually bereft of all good fortune. Thus he could not accept the requests of the great sages, which the sages put before him with great respect, and therefore he was condemned.
PURPORT
The demons certainly cannot have any faith in the words of authorities. In fact, they are always disrespectful to authorities. They manufacture their own religious principles and disobey great personalities like Vyāsa, Nārada, and even the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. As soon as one disobeys authority, he immediately becomes very sinful and loses his good fortune. The King was so puffed up and impudent that he dared disrespect the great saintly personalities, and this brought him ruination.
TEXT 30
इति तेऽसत्कृतास्तेन द्विजाः पण्डितमानिना । मग्नायां मन्ययाञ्जायां तस्मै विदुर जुक्रुधुः ॥३०॥
iti te 'sat-kṛtās tena dvijāḥ paṇḍita-māninā bhagnāyām bhavya-yācñāyām tasmai vidura cukrudhuḥ
iti—thus; te—all the great sages; asat-kṛtāḥ—being insulted; tena—by the King; dvijāḥ—the brāhmaṇas; paṇḍita-māninā—thinking himself to be very learned; bhagnāyām—being broken; bhavya—auspicious; yācñāyām—their request; tasmai—at him; vidura—O Vidura; cukrudhuḥ—became very angry.