168 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 22
harisye tad-dhanam Sanaih: the Lord bestows special favor upon His de-
votee by taking away all his material opulences. Bali Maharaja appreci-
ated this behavior by the Lord. Therefore he said, daivena nitah
prasabharh tyajita-srih: “‘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
Maharaja by the words jandd bhitah, every devotee in Krsna conscious-
ness 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 Krsna 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.

adanta-gobhir visatarh tamisram
punah punas carvita-carvanandm
(Bhag. 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. Ninam
pramattah kurute vikarma. Because of uncontrolled senses, people fully
engage in sinful activities by which they get a body full of suffering. Bali
Maharaja 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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