92 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 16
“Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among
men, are cast by Me into the ocean of material existence, into various
demoniac species of life.” The Lord is extremely antagonistic toward
those who are envious of His devotees. To protect His devotees, the Lord
sometimes has to kill their enemies. For example, to protect Prahlada
Maharaja, the Lord had to kill his enemy Hiranyakasipu, although
Hiranyakasipu attained salvation because of being killed by the Lord.
Since the Lord is the witness of everyone’s activities, He witnesses the ac-
tions of the enemies of His devotees, and He is inclined to punish them.
In other cases, however, He simply witnesses what the living entities do
and gives the results of one’s sinful or pious actions.
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SAAT TUVATETNTE: 112 8
nadatta atma hi gunarh
na dosam na kriya-phalam
udasinavad dsinah
paravara-drg isvarah

na—not; ddatte—accepts; atma—the Supreme Lord; hi—indeed;
gunam—happiness; na—not; dosam—unhappiness; na—nor; kriya-
phalam—the result of any fruitive activity; uddsina-vat—exactly like a
neutral man; dsinah—sitting (in the core of the heart); para-avara-
drk—seeing the cause and effect; iSvarah—the Supreme Lord.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Lord [atma], the creator of cause and effect, does
not accept the happiness and distress that result from fruitive ac-
tions. He is completely independent of having to accept a material
body, and because He has no material body, He is always neutral.
The living entities, being part and parcel of the Lord, possess His
qualities in a minute quantity. Therefore one should not be
affected by lamentation.
