232 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 6
TEXT 31
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tat tv arocata daityasya
tatranye ye ’surddhipah
Sambaro ’ristanemis ca
ye ca tripura-vasinah
tat—all those words; tu—but; arocata—were very pleasing;
daityasya—to Bali Maharaja; tatra—as well as; anye—others; ye—who
were; asura-adhipah—the chiefs of the asuras; sambarah—Sambara;
aristanemih—Aristanemi; ca—also; ye—others who; ca—and; ¢tripura-
vasinah—all the residents of Tripura.
TRANSLATION
The proposals submitted by King Indra were immediately ac-
cepted by Bali Maharaja and his assistants, headed by Sambara and
Aristanemi, and by all the other residents of Tripura.
PURPORT
It appears from this verse that politics, diplomacy, the propensity to
cheat, and everything that we find in this world in individual and social
negotiations between two parties are also present in the upper planetary
systems. The demigods went to Bali Maharaja with the proposal to
manufacture nectar, and the Daityas, the demons, immediately accepted
it, thinking that since the demigods were already weak, when the nectar
was produced the demons would take it from them and use it for their
own purposes. The demigods, of course, had similar intentions. The only
difference is that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu, was
on the side of the demigods because the demigods were His devotees,
whereas the demons did not care about Lord Visnu. All over the universe
there are two parties—the Visnu party, or God-conscious party, and the
godless party. The godless party is never happy or victorious, but the
God-conscious party is always happy and victorious.
