264 Srimad-Bhagavatam [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 Prahlada, Hiranyakasipu
was very much dissatisfied. When Prahlada began teaching about devo-
tional service, Hiranyakasipu immediately regarded the teachers as his
enemies in the garb of friends. In this verse the words rogah patakinadm
iva refer to disease, which is the most sinful and miserable of the condi-
tions of material life (janma-mrtyu-jard-vyadhi). Disease is the
symptom of the body of a sinful person. The smrti-sdstras say,
brahma-ha ksaya-rogi syat
surapah syavadantakah
svarna-hari tu kunakhi
duscarma guru-talpagah
Murderers of brahmanas 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.
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suto vadaty esa tavendra-Satro
naisargikiyam matir asya rdjan
niyaccha manyum kad adah sma ma nah
