पश्य सात्वतमुख्येन शिशुपालं निपातितम् ॥
न च तत्र पुमान् आसीत् कश् चित् तस्य पदानुगः ॥
दह्यमाना हि राजानः पाण्डवोत्थेन वह्निना ॥
क्षान्तवन्तो ऽपराधं तं को हि तं क्षन्तुम् अर्हति ॥
वासुदेवेन तत् कर्म तथायुक्तं महत् कृतम् ॥
सिद्धं च पाण्डवेयानां प्रतापेन महात्मनाम् ॥
paśya sātvatamukhyena śiśupālaṃ nipātitam ||
na ca tatra pumān āsīt kaś cit tasya padānugaḥ ||
dahyamānā hi rājānaḥ pāṇḍavotthena vahninā ||
kṣāntavanto 'parādhaṃ taṃ ko hi taṃ kṣantum arhati ||
vāsudevena tat karma tathāyuktaṃ mahat kṛtam ||
siddhaṃ ca pāṇḍaveyānāṃ pratāpena mahātmanām ||
"Look: Shishupala was struck down by the foremost of the Satvatas [Krishna], and there was not a single man there, his follower; for the kings, burned by the fire that rose from the Pandavas, endured that offense -- and who else could endure such a thing? This great and so daring deed was done by Vasudeva and succeeded by the might of the great-souled Pandavas."
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Even the execution of a blasphemer of God, Duryodhana sees only as the triumph of his rivals, not as the defeat of evil. It is telling that envy strips a man of the ability to discern good: the destruction of the wicked Shishupala, to an envious eye, is not the restoration of righteousness but one more humiliation that "no one could avenge." The verse teaches that passion distorts judgment: where the righteous see the victory of dharma, the envious perceive only the power of a rival. Even the Lord's own defense of what is sacred, Duryodhana reinterprets as a reproach against the Pandavas. One who looks through envy sees even in the deeds of God not good but a threat to himself -- for he measures everything not by truth but by rivalry.