Text 23]
Indra Offends Brhaspati
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tasyāyam anayasyāsīt parebhyo vaḥ parābhavaḥ prakṣīṇebhyaḥ sva-vairibhyaḥ samṛddhānām ca yat surāḥ
tasya—that; ayam—this; anayasya—of your ungrateful activity; āsīt—was; parebhyaḥ—by others; vaḥ—of all of you; parābhavaḥ—the defeat; prakṣīṇebhyaḥ—although they were weak; sva-vairibhyaḥ—by your own enemies, who were previously defeated by you; samṛddhānām—being yourselves very opulent; ca—and; yat—which; surāḥ—O demigods.
TRANSLATION
Because of your misbehavior toward Brhaspati, you have been defeated by the demons. My dear demigods, since the demons were weak, having been defeated by you several times, how else could you, who were so advanced in opulence, be defeated by them?
PURPORT
The  devas  are celebrated for fighting with the  asuras  perpetually. In such fights the  asuras  were always defeated, but this time the demigods were defeated. Why? The reason, as stated here, was that they had offended their spiritual master. Their impudent disrespect of their spiritual master was the cause of their defeat by the demons. As stated in the  śāstras , when one disrespects a respectable superior, one loses his longevity and the results of his pious activities, and in this way one is degraded.
TEXT 23
मघवन्द्विषतः पश्य प्रक्षीणान् गुर्वतिक्रमात् । सम्प्रत्युपचितान् भूयः काव्यमाराध्य भक्तितः । आददीरन् निलयनं ममापि भृगुदेवताः ॥२३॥
maghavan dviṣataḥ paśya prakṣīṇān gurv-atikramāt sampraty upacitān bhūyaḥ