His Dealings Are Beneficial

”He then came near the Lord and stood before Him with his glittering transcendental body, wearing golden ornaments and bowing his head. Then Lord Sri Krsna, the master of the senses, asked him the following.”

tam aprcchadd hrsikesah
pranatam samupasthitam
dipyamanena vapusa
purusam hema-malinam

PURPORT BY SRI KRSNA BALARAM SWAMIJI

As soon as the python’s body was transformed into a human looking demigod’s body he showed humility like a civilized person. A civilized person acts humbly admitting the guilt of material consciousness and is open to adopt devotional life seriously. Egotistic people believe there is no need to worry about what happens to them after death. The Niti Sastra reveals the nature of such arrogant closed minded people thus, suskam kastham ca murkham ca na narmyati vinasyati, ”Arrogant fools are like dry wooden sticks that would rather break then bend to the scriptural truth.” To such people the Bhakti Rasayanam advises in the following way:

dhrte hi bhave bhagavt padaptih
sarvatra siddheti kimatra citram
tyakte hi bhave’pi sa citramasid
vidyadharo nama sudarsanas ca

“There is no doubt that every category of the Lord’s dealing are beneficial to everyone, still if one’s consciousness is fixed on the Lord through devotional service His blessings are felt as soothing, but if one’s consciousness is not divine His blessings are felt as very rough and harsh. The demigod Sudarsana is an example of this when he was transformed from a python to a beautiful demigod. If one can become a sincere devotee and obtain the soothing blessings of the Lord, why then remain an arrogant egotistic person and receive harsh treatment?”

[Srimad Bhagavatam, 10.34.11, KBS0002]