anugraho 'yaḿ bhavataḥ kṛto hi no
daṇḍo 'satāḿ te khalu kalmaṣāpahaḥ
yad dandaśūkatvam amuṣya dehinaḥ
krodho 'pi te 'nugraha eva sammataḥ
anugrahah -- mercy; ayam -- this; bhavatah -- by You; kritah -- done; hi -- indeed; nah -- to us; dandah -- punishment; asatam -- of the evil; te -- by You; khalu -- indeed; kalmasha-apahah -- the dispelling of their contamination; yat -- because; dandasukatvam -- the condition of appearing as a serpent; amushya -- of this Kaliya; dehinah -- the conditioned soul; krodhah -- anger; api -- even; te -- Your; anugrahah -- as mercy; eva -- actually; sammatah -- is accepted.
Srila Madhvacarya points out in this connection that when a pious person suffers in this world, he realizes, "The punishment the Supreme Lord is meting out to me is actually His causeless mercy." Envious persons, however, even after being punished by the Lord for their purification, continue to envy Him and be resentful, and this attitude is the reason for their continued failure to understand the Absolute Truth.