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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 5]
deceptive friends in false garbs, but eventually, because of their false behavior, their actual enmity becomes manifest.
PURPORT
Being anxious about the education of his boy Prahlāda, Hiraṇyakaśipu was very much dissatisfied. When Prahlāda began teaching about devotional service, Hiraṇyakaśipu immediately regarded the teachers as his enemies in the garb of friends. In this verse the words  rogaḥ pātakinām iva  refer to disease, which is the most sinful and miserable of the conditions of material life ( janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi ). Disease is the symptom of the body of a sinful person. The  smṛti-śāstras  say,
brahma-hā kṣaya-rogī syāt surāpaḥ śyāvadantakaḥ svarṇa-hārī tu kunakhī duścarmā guru-talpagaḥ
Murderers of  brāhmaṇas  are later afflicted by tuberculosis, drunkards become toothless, those who have stolen gold are afflicted by diseased nails, and sinful men who have sexual connections with the wife of a superior are afflicted by leprosy and similar skin diseases.
TEXT 28
श्रीगुरुपुत्र उवाच
न मत्प्रणीतं न परप्रणीतं
सुतो वदत्येष तवेन्द्रशत्रो ।
नैसर्गिकीयं मतिरस्य राजन्
नियच्छ मन्युं कददाः स मा नः ॥२८॥
śrī-guru-putra uvāca na mat-praṇītam na para-praṇītam suto vadaty eṣa tavendra-śatro naisargikīyam matir asya rājan niyaccha manyum kad adāḥ sma mā naḥ