194 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 10

been blinded by the pride of celestial opulence and have become
attached to women, I shall relieve them of their false prestige.

PURPORT

When a sddhu chastises or punishes someone, he does not do so for
revenge. Maharaja Pariksit had inquired why Narada Muni was subject
to such a spirit of revenge (tamah). But this was not tamah, for Narada
Muni, in full knowledge of what was for the good of the two brothers,
wisely thought of how to cure them. Vaisnavas are good physicians. They
know how to protect a person from material disease. Thus they are never
in tamo-guna. Sa gundan samatityaitan brahma-bhiydya kalpate
(Bg. 14.26). Vaisnavas are always situated on the transcendental plat-
form, the Brahman platform. They cannot be subject to mistakes or the
influence of the modes of material nature. Whatever they do, after full
consideration, is meant just to lead everyone back home, back to

Godhead.

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