Text 7] Bali Maharaja Surrenders His Life 161

TRANSLATION

Since Your Lordship is indirectly the greatest well-wisher of us
demons, You act for our best welfare by posing as if our enemy.
Because demons like us always aspire for a position of false
prestige, by chastising us You give us the eyes by which to see the
right path.

PURPORT

Bali Maharaja considered the Supreme Personality of Godhead a better
friend to the demons than to the demigods. In the material world, the
more one gets material possessions, the more he becomes blind to spiri-
tual life. The demigods are devotees of the Lord for the sake of material
possessions, but although the demons apparently do not have the
Supreme Personality of Godhead on their side, He always acts as their
well-wisher by depriving them of their positions of false prestige. By
false prestige one is misguided, so the Supreme Lord takes away their
position of false prestige as a special favor.

TEXTS 6-7

afaq aug yea frqvaT: |
TER SRT fats ae aT ra: 1&1

wae Prptaisha aaa feet |
TSA Ae: TAMAS A AAT | ll

yasmin vairdnubandhena
vytidhena vibudhetarah

bahavo lebhire siddhirn
yam u haikanta-yoginah

tenaham nigrhito ‘smi
bhavata bhitri-karmana

baddhas ca varunaih pasair
nativride na ca vyathe
