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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 22]
hariṣye tad-dhanam śanaiḥ : the Lord bestows special favor upon His devotee by taking away all his material opulences. Bali Mahārāja appreciated this behavior by the Lord. Therefore he said,  daivena nītaḥ prasabham tyājita-śrīḥ : “It is to bring me to the right platform of eternal life that You have put me into these circumstances.”
Actually, everyone should fear the so-called society, friendship and love for which he works so hard all day and night. As indicated by Bali Mahārāja by the words  janād bhītaḥ , every devotee in Kṛṣṇa consciousness should always be afraid of the common man engaged in pursuing material prosperity. Such a person is described as  pramatta , a madman chasing the will-o’-the-wisp. Such men do not know that after a hard struggle for life one must change his body, with no certainty of what kind of body he will receive next. Those who are completely established in Kṛṣṇa conscious philosophy and who therefore understand the aim of life will never take to the activities of the materialistic dog race. But if a sincere devotee somehow does fall down, the Lord corrects him and saves him from gliding down to the darkest region of hellish life.
adānta-gobhir viśatām tamisram
punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām
(Bhāg. 7.5.30)
The materialistic way of life is nothing but the repeated chewing of that which has already been chewed. Although there is no profit in such a life, people are enamored of it because of uncontrolled senses.  Nūnam pramattaḥ kurute vikarma . Because of uncontrolled senses, people fully engage in sinful activities by which they get a body full of suffering. Bali Mahārāja appreciated how the Lord had saved him from such a bewildered life of ignorance. He therefore said that his intelligence had been stunned.  Stabdha-matir na budhyate . He could not understand how the Supreme Personality of Godhead favors His devotees by forcibly stopping their materialistic activities.
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श्रीशुक उवाच
तस्येत्थं भाषमाणस्य प्रह्लादो भगवत्प्रियः ।
आजगाम कुरुश्रेष्ठ राक्रापतिरित्रोत्थितः ॥१॥