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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.14.46
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 46
- yogair hemeva durvarṇaṁ
- bhāvayiṣyanti sādhavaḥ
- nirvairādibhir ātmānaṁ
- yac-chīlam anuvartitum
yogaiḥby the rectifying processes — by the rectifying processes; hemagold — gold; ivalike — like; durvarṇaminferior quality — inferior quality; bhāvayiṣyantiwill purify — will purify; sādhavaḥsaintly persons — saintly persons; nirvairaby practice of freedom from animosity, etc-ādibhiḥby practice of freedom from animosity, etc — by practice of freedom from animosity, etc.; ātmānamthe self — the self; yatwhose — whose; śīlamcharacter — character; anuvartitumto follow in the footsteps — to follow in the footsteps.
In order to follow in his footsteps, saintly persons will try to emulate his character by practicing freedom from animosity, just as the purifying processes rectify gold of inferior quality.
Yoga practice, the process of purifying one's existential identity, is based mainly on self-control. Without self-control one cannot practice freedom from animosity. In the conditional state, every living being is envious of another living being, but in the liberated state there is an absence of animosity. Prahlāda Mahārāja was tortured by his father in so many ways, yet after the death of his father he prayed for his father's liberation by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He did not ask any benediction that he might have asked, but he prayed that his atheistic father might be liberated. He never cursed any of the persons who engaged in torturing him at the instigation of his father.