Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.36

tatra dānava-daityānāḿ

sańgāt te bhāva āsuraḥ

dṛṣṭvā mad-anubhāvaḿ vai

sadyaḥ kuṇṭho vinańkṣyati

SYNONYMS

tatra — in that place; dānava-daityānām — of the demons and the Dānavas; sańgāt — because of the association; te — your; bhāvaḥ — mentality; āsuraḥ — demoniac; dṛṣṭvā — by observing; mat-anubhāvam — My superexcellent power; vai — indeed; sadyaḥ — immediately; kuṇṭhaḥ — anxiety; vinańkṣyati — will be destroyed.

TRANSLATION

Because there you will see My supreme prowess, your materialistic ideas and anxieties that have arisen from your association with the demons and Dānavas will immediately be vanquished.

PURPORT

The Lord assured Bali Mahārāja of all protection, and finally the Lord assured him of protection from the effects of bad association with the demons. Bali Mahārāja certainly became an exalted devotee, but he was somewhat anxious because his association was not purely devotional. The Supreme Personality of Godhead therefore assured him that his demoniac mentality would be annihilated. In other words, by the association of devotees, the demoniac mentality is vanquished.

satāḿ prasańgān mama vīrya-saḿvido

bhavanti hṛt-karṇa-rasāyanāḥ kathāḥ

(Bhāg. 3.25.25)

When a demon associates with devotees engaged in glorifying the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he gradually becomes a pure devotee.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Eighth Canto, Twenty-second Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "Bali Mahārāja Surrenders His Life."

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