O brāhmaṇa, let Me now advise you for your own protection. Please hear from Me. By offending Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, you have acted with self-envy. Therefore you should go to him immediately, without a moment’s delay. One’s so-called prowess, when employed against the devotee, certainly harms he who employs it. Thus it is the subject, not the object, who is harmed.
Srimad Bhagavata Purana
श्रीमद्भागवतमहापुराणम्
मूल श्लोकः
उपायं कथयिष्यामि तव विप्र शृणुष्व तत् । अयं ह्यात्माभिचारस्ते यतस्तं यातु वै भवान् । साधुषु प्रहितं तेजः प्रहर्तुः कुरुतेऽशिवम्
upāyaṃ kathayiṣyāmi tava vipra śṛṇuṣva tat | ayaṃ hyātmābhicāraste yatastaṃ yātu vai bhavān | sādhuṣu prahitaṃ tejaḥ prahartuḥ kurute'śivam
SB 9.4.69