Priti Sandarbha 7.8 : Sometimes a pure devotee appears to be overcome by Māyā
7.8 Sometimes a Pure Devotee Appears to Be Completely Overcome by Māyā: The Case of Jaya and Vijaya yathā daitya-janmani jaya-vijayayoḥ | atra pūrveṣāṁ svalpa eva tad-ābhāsaḥ, tayos tu samyag iti viśeṣaḥ, tat premādīnām anāvaraṇād āvaraṇāc ca | This līlā-śakti was also active in Jaya and Vijaya in their birth as demons. In the earlier cases [i.e., of the Brajavāsīs and Baladeva, with which the previoius] the semblance [of the absence of pure bhakti] was minor, but in the case of Jaya and Vijaya it was complete; this difference is due to the fact that in the first cases, the devotees' love [for Kṛṣṇa] was not covered but in the second, it was. tatra tayor vaira-bhāva-prāptau khalu muni-kṛtatvaṁ na syāt | "mataṁ tu me" [bhā.pu. 3.16.29] ity atra bhagavad-icchāyās tat-kāraṇatvena sthāpitatvāt | The feeling of animosity [towards Bhagavān] acquired by Jaya and Vijaya was certainly not caused by the [curse of the] sages [the Kumāras] because He Himself stated that ...